314 POWDERED VEGETABLE DRUGS 



74. (Fig. 83.) GOTO. Goto Bark. 

 Fl. ex. 60. 



Para bark, E. Cotorinde, G. Ecorce de Goto, Fr. 



The bark of some botanically unknown South American tree, 

 perhaps belonging to the Lauracese or Anacardiacese. 



Rather deep cinnamon brown. 



Aromatic, recalling cinnamon; camphoraceous. 



Very pungent, somewhat bitter. 



Very large elongated sclerenchyma cells; smaller, isodiametric 

 sclerenchyma cells; cell walls of all sclerenchyma cells greatly thickened 

 and porous, some of them containing a granular substance ; parenchyma 

 cells containing more or less spherical, granular reddish brown, oily 

 bodies; numerous larger cells containing yellow resin; some starch 

 granules, mostly simple.. 



Goto bark is less common than paracoto and the latter is quite 

 generally substituted for coto . Various other barks are also substituted 

 for coto. (See Paracoto). Both coto and paracoto barks appear to 

 have completely disappeared from the market within recent years. 



