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VIII. BERBERIDE.E. 



uralifolia. C. Pareira is a southern Brazilian shrub, the root of which, called ' Pareira Brava,' is woody, in- 

 odorous, of a taste at first mild, then bitter and somewhat acrid ; it was formerly renowned as a lithotriptic, 

 and is still used in Martinique against the bite of the Trigonocephalus. Cissampelos Caapeba, from the 

 Antilles, and C. mauritiana, from the Mnscarine islands, are used as substitutes for the Pareira Brava. 

 The root of Coscinium fenestratwn, of Ceylon, is a stomachic. The negros of Senegambia employ that 

 of Cocculus liakis as a diuretic and febrifuge. The roots of Cissampelos gldberrimus and ebracteatus are ad- 

 ministered in Brazil in cases of snake-bites. Coccitlns criyms, of the Moluccas, contains a glutinous and 

 bitter juice, commonly used by the Indians in intermittent fevers, jaundice, and intestinal worms. 



The bark of .several species is extremely bitter ; some yield a yellow dye. Anamirta Cocculm is a 

 tropical Asiatic shrub, whose extremely poisonous fruits are used in India to intoxicate and poison fish, 

 which are thus obtained in abundance, but are sometimes dangerous to eat, the narcotic principle con- 

 tained in the seed (pieroto.rine) being scarcely less deleterious than strychnine. In England beer is some- 

 times adulterated with Cocctdtis indicns. 



VIII. BERBERIDE^E. 



(BERBERIDES, Jussicu. BKRHERIDE.K. Ventenat. BERBERACE^E, Lindl.) 



Barberry. 



Vertical section of 



ovary (mag.). 



Barberry. Vertical section of flower (mag.). 



Barberry. 



Seed, entire and cut 

 vertically (mag.). 



Barberry. 

 (Herberts wilyaris.) 



Barberry. Diagram. 



