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E. hortensisj in Polynesia, and E. latifolia? in the Moluccas, serve 

 as tonics and vulneraries. It is said that the fruit of E. rutacarpc? 

 is purgative. Several species of Acronychia,* particularly A. pedun- 

 culata? are used in Asia and tropical Oceania as aromatic, tonic anti- 

 rheumatical drugs. Ptelca trifoliate? (figs, 445, 446), a shrub of N. 

 America, frequently cultivated in Europe, has leaves which, when 

 bruised, give a strong, not \ery agreeable, odour ; they pass as 

 vermicidal, and are used in the treatment of ulcers of a bad nature. 

 The fruits have an aromatic, bitter flavour ; they are sometimes 

 substituted for hops in making beer, but not without danger. 



The Cuspariees series contains a good number of species used as 

 bitter tonic drugs and as febrifuges in their native country, which is 

 Equinoctial America. The most celebrated is that furnishing the 

 true Angostura bark, which ought to take the name of Galipea febri- 

 fufja? This fragrant bark, greyish or yellowish outwardly, more or 

 less fawn-coloured within, contains a bitter crystallizable principle 

 {cusparin) ; it has been compared, on account of its properties, to the 

 cinchonas, and is perhaps as good a stomachic and digestive as they, 

 but very inferior as a febrifuge. Ticorea febrifuge? and jasminiflora 9 

 (figs. 409-413), Hortia brasiliana™ Monniera trifolia" and Esenbeckia 



1 Foest., Cliar. Gen., t. 7. — Rosenth., op. — Guib., Drog. Simph, id. 6, Hi. 535, fig. 728. 

 cit., 879. — Facjara Fvodia L. Hi, — II. Bn., in Diet. Encycl. Sc. Med., v. 124. — 



2 DC, Prodr., i. 725, n. 1. — Ampacus Cusparia febrifuga~B..B.,Tabl. Geogr., (1799). — 

 latifolia Rumpii., Herb. Amboin., ii. 186. Bonplandia Irifoliata W. , in Act. Berol. (1S02), 



3 Boymia rutcecarpa A. Jrss., in Mem. 2 k — Angostura Cuspare Rcem. & Sen., Syst ., 

 Mus., xii. 507, t. 25, fig. 39.— Sieb. & Zucc, iv. (1819), 188. G. officinalis (Hanc,, in 

 Fl. Jap., i. 50, t. 21.— Kossuth., op. cit., 876 Trans. Med.-Bot. Soc. (1829), 25, t. 2;— 

 (vulg. Go-sju-ju). Lindl., loc. cit., 211), furnishing the Angostura 



4 AlKBL., Mat. Med. Ind., ii. 306. - bark, and which I believe to have seen, seems 

 Rosenth., op. cit., 877. nothing else but a form or variety of the pre- 



5 Cymino.sma pedunculata DC, Prodr., i. ceding plant. 



722. — Jamlolifera L., Fl. Zeyl., 58. — J. s A. S. H., PI. Rem. Bres., 142.— Lindl., 



pedunculata Vaiil, Symb., 52, t. 61. — Perin- Fl. Med., 212.— Guib., loc. cit, 557 (vulg. 



panel Kheed., Ilort. Malab.,v. 15 ? — Ceutn., Tresfolhas broncos). 



Fruct., i. 281, not. (vulg. Jambolanen, Jambo- K 9 A. S. II., in Bull. Soc. Phil. (1823), 132 ; 



bohnen). PI. Bern. Bres., 141, t. 14. — Lindl., Fl. Med., 



fi L., Spec, 173.— Dill., Elth., t. 122. — 212. — RoSEMTH., op. cit., 879. A decoction of 



Mill, Icon., t. 211. — DC, Prodr., ii. 82. — the leaves of this plant is considered in Brazil as 



Dxjham., Arbr., t. 43. — Tuhp., in Dtct. Sc. a cure for the affection called Frambcesia, or 



Nat., Atl., t. 12S. — Lindl., Fl. Med., 215. — Babas by the Portuguese. 



Rosenth., op. cit., 877. — Bentl., in Pharm. I0 Vandell., in Bcem. Script. Bras., 188. — 



Journ., iv. 498 (vulg. Orme a. irois feuilles, O. DC, Prodr., i. 732. — Rosenth., op. cit., 880 



de S' marie, Trifle de Virginie). P. pen- (vulg. Qiiina do campo). 



taphglla MffiNCH (Sous., iii. 242), a variety of u L., Spec, 986.— Atjbl., Quian., 730, t. 



the preceding, has the same properties. 293. — DC, Prodr.. i. 730. — ROSENTH., op. cit., 



7 G. Cusparia A. S. H. (ex DC, Prodr., i. 879. — Jaborandi Mabcgr., Bras., 3G (vulg. 



(1824), 731) ; Fl. Bras. Mer\, i. 87.— Mee. & Alfavaca de cobra). Also used as a diuretic 



Del., Diet. Mat. MSd., i. 300; v'u. 46.— and expectorant. 

 Pep.eika, Elem. Mat. Mi ■'.. ed. 1, ii. p. ii. 401. 



