MEDICAL BOTANY. 267 



PHARBITIS. 



816. Nil. Seeds purgative. Said to be a quick cathartic. 



CONVOLVULUS. 



817. Scammonia. Roots cathartic. Produces Scammony. 



818. Althseoides. Roots purgative. 



CALYSTEGIA. 



819. Sepium. Roots purgative. 



820. Soldanella. Roots purgative. 



LOBELIACE.E. 



LOBELIA. 



823. Inflata. An acrid narcotic, and powerful emetic. Used in 



asthma. In small doses expectorant and diaphoretic. 



824. Siphilitica. Root acrid and emetic. Used as a remedy for 



siphilis. 



HlPPOBROMA. (ISOTOMA.) 



825. Longiflorum. Acrid, venomous. 



TUPA. 



826. Feuillsei. Acrid, venomous. The smell of the flowers said 



to produce vomiting. 



CINCHONACE.E. 



HYMENODICTYON. 



856. Excelsum. Bark bitter and astringent. 



EXOSTEMA. 



857. Caribaeum. Juice of the capsules produces a burning itching in 



the nostrils and lips. Bark febrifugal and emetic. 



858. Floribundum. Bark febrifugal and emetic ; rather drastic. 



MANETTIA. 



862. Cordifolia. Bark of the root a valuable remedy in dropsy and 

 dysentery, acting as an emetic. 



RANDIA. 



864. Dumetorum. Fruit narcotic, emetic. 



GARDENIA. 



865. Campanulata. Fruit employed as a cathartic and anthelrnintic. 



COFFEA. 

 876. Arabica. Stimulating, aromatic. Produces Coffee. 



