BUBIACUJE. 



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wards. ^ The fruit is a drupe with two putamens of little thickness 

 enclosing each an ascending seed, the coats of which, traversed 

 medially by a longitudinal furrow, cover a hard albumen enveloping 



Tlragoga Ipecacuanha. 



Fig. 262. Habit (J)- 



a short axile embryo with inferior radicle and foliaceous cotyledons. 

 Tlragoga Ipecacuanha (fig. 262) is a low creeping plant of tropical 

 America chiefly of Brazil. Its roots, often thick, cylindrical trans- 

 versely ringed, constitute the medicine known as ringed Ipecacuanha. 

 Its frutescent aerial branches, generally not ramified, bear opposite, 

 penninerved leaves accompanied with interpetiolar stipules, united at 

 the base and forming a short sheath ciliate at the margin ; and its 



^ There is but one coat, and this is ordinarily very rudimentary, 



