BRUCEA. 



disk. Anthers oval, large, deep purple. Ovaries 4, 1 -celled, with 1 

 ovule in each cell attached to the upper and inner side. Styles 

 single, short, recurved, 1 to each ovary. Stigmas simple. Drupes 4, 

 when all come to maturity, size of a small grain of black pepper, 

 smooth, dark purple, 1-celled. Roxburgh expected the bark of this 

 to be fully equal in efficacy to that of Br. antidysenterica. Dr. Hors- 

 field thinks it would be as serviceable a tonic as Quassia. 



450. B. antidysenterica Millie fasc. t.25. DC. prodr. ii. 88. 

 B. ferruginea L'Herit. stirp. 1. 10. Wooginoos Bruce s travels, 

 vol. v. p. 69. with a figure. In Abyssinia. 



Leaflets entire, covered with ferruginous hair on the nerves. Ra- 

 cemes simple, spike-shaped. Considered in Abyssinia a most valuable 

 remedy in dysentery and severe cases of diarrhrea, but not known in 

 Europe. It has been supposed that a poisonous bark called False 

 Angostura, was yielded by this plant j but it now turns out that it is 

 nothing but the bark of the Nux vomica (Strychnos). Guibourt, ed. 3, 

 i. 4. All the statements therefore that have been made concerning 

 the danger of Brucea bark and Brucine, belong to Strychnos, and have 

 nothing to do with Brucea itself, 



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