ri4 THE USES OF PLANTS. 



stimulant in medicine, is more largely consumed as a 

 spice ; but Sir J. D. Hooker, in his ' Himalayan 

 Journals/* describes several other species as the 

 sources of that produced in the Khasya mountains. 



Nectandra Rodiczi, Schomburgk, the well-known 

 GREENHEART, or BEBEERU of British Guiana, con- 

 tains in its bark an alkaloid Bebeerine (now shown to 

 be identical with Buxine, C 18 H 21 NO 3 ), discovered by 

 Hugh Rodie, a naval surgeon, in 1835. It was 

 examined by Dr. Maclagan in 1843, an< ^ nas Deen 

 admitted to the Pharmacopoeia as a febrifuge. It 

 forms the main ingredient of ' WARBURG'S DROPS,' a 

 popular medicine in India.f 



Daphne Mezereum, L., MEZEREON, a rare British 

 species, contains in its acrid bark a glucoside, Daphnin, 

 C 31 H 34 O 19 , and has been prepared as an ethereal 

 extract for a stimulating liniment.j The bark itself 

 is used as a vesicant. 



URTICACE^. 



Canndbis sativa, L., the HEMP, a native of Asia, 

 yields various products of a resinous character, chiefly 

 valued in Oriental medicine. ' GUAZA,' or ' GUNJAH,' 

 occasionally comes into the English drug market, and 

 consists of the dried flowering shoots of the plant. 



BHANG, or HASHISH, the dried resinous leaves and 



* Vol. ii, p. 303, ed. 1855. 



f Maclagan, ' Pharm. Journ.,' iii (1843), P- 1 77 ; H. Rodie, 

 ibid., iv (1844), p. 281 ; Bentley and Trimen, iii, pi. 219. 



| ' Pharmacographia/ p. 487. Bentley and Trimen, iii, pi. 225. 



