HUBIACHJE. 381 



to bites of serpents and other venomous animals. Portlandia 

 grandiflora,^ of the Antilles, has a bitter, stomachic and tonic bark. 

 P. speciosaj^ of tropical America, has the same properties ; its bark 

 is also said to be febrifuge. 



Diervilla acadiensis ^ or luteq (fig. 356), of North America, is also 

 an astringent plant, reputed antisyphilitic. Many Lonicerece have 

 analogous properties. Linncea horealis ^ (fig. 380) is used in Sweden 

 in the treatment of gout, sciatica and rheumatism. The leaves of 

 the honeysuckle^ (fig. 371-376) have been used as in astringent 

 gargles. L. Periclymenum^ has the same properties. From L. 

 Xylosteum ^ (fig. 378) is extracted an empyreumatic oil used in scorbutic 

 and syphilitic affections, cold tumours and madness. Symphoricarpos 

 vidgaris ^ and racemosus ^ (fig. 365-370) are reputed febrifuge in 

 America ; the young branches reduced to powder are said to be used. 

 The Samhucece, on the contrary, are evacuant plants. The root of 

 Samhucus Ebidus (fig. 382-384) is said to be violently purgative. Its 

 leaves are extolled as dissolvents ; they are esteemed in veterinary 

 medicine for anasarca, putrescence, dropsy in the legs and farcy. 

 The leaves and inner bark of the Black Elder are also purgative. 

 Samhucus racemosa '^ and canadensis ^^ (fig. 385, 386) have the same 

 properties. S. peruviana ^^ is purgative. S. mexicana ^^ is extolled as 



1 L. Spec. 244. — Jacq. Amer. t. 44.— Cukt. italicum Mill. Diet. n. 5. — Caprifolium hortense 

 Bot. Mag. t. 286. — DC. Prodr. iv. 405, n. 1. — Lamk. — C. italicum Rcem. et Sch. — C. rotundifo- 

 RosENTH. op. cit. 336. Hum M(ench {Patte-dc-loup, Maire, Moire). 



2 F. hexandra Jacq. Amer. 63, 1. 182, fig. 20.— « L. Spec. 247.— Gr. et Godr. Fl. de Ft: ii. 10 

 Coutarea speciosa Aubl. Guian. i. 304, t. 122. — {CranquilUer). 



LATdK. III. t. 157.— DC. Prodr. iv. 350, n. 1.— ? L. Spec. 248.— Duham. Jrbr. ii. t. 54.— 



RosENTH. op. cit. 346 (Quiua de Pernamhuco, Xylosteum dumetorum 1s1qs.^cu. — X.vulgare'RnL. 



Cortex Jlava fibrosa s. Fseudo-Carthagena oS.). — C. dumetorum Lamk. {Chamecerisierf Came- 



'Duham. Arbr. i. t. 87 (1755). — L. trijida risier, Soriau). 



M(ENCH. Meth. 492 (1794). — i). Tournefortii « Michx. Fl. Bor.-Ainer. i. 106. — Symphoria 



MiCHX.i^/. ^or.-ii?«^r. i. 107(1803). — D, humilis conglomerata Pers. Syn. i. 214. — S. glomerata 



Pers. Syn. i. 214 (1805). — Z). canadensis W. Pursh. — Lonicera Symphoricarpos L. Spec. 249 



Enum. i. 222 (1809).— i). lutea Pursh. Fl. Am. {Arbousier d'Jmerique). 



Sept. i. 162 (1814).— Zom<;^?a Diervilla L. Mat. ' Michx. loc. cit. 107.— Sims, Fat. Mag. t. 



Med. 62. 2211. — S. leucoearpa hort. — S. racemosa Pursh. 



* L. Spec. 880 ; Fl. Lapp. (ed. 2) t. 12, fig. 4. — ? S. heterophylla Presl. 



—Sow. Engl. Bot. t. 433.— Schkuhr, Handb. t. ^^ L. Spec. 386.— Jacq. 7c. i?ar.t. 59.— Duham. 



176.— Lamk. ///. t. 536.— Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. Arbr. t. 66.— Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 7 



170, t. 9, fig. 3.— Hook. Fl. Lond. v. t. 199.— (Sureau de MorUagm, S. a grappes). 



Rosenth. op. cit. 351. i^ L. Spec. 385.— Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. i. 



^Lonicera Caprifolium L. Spec. 246. — Sow. 203.— Schm. (Estr. Baumz. t. 142. 



Engl. Bot. t. 799.— DC. Prodr. iv. 331, n. 1 ; Fl. ^^ H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp, iii. 429.-5. 



Fr. iv. 270.— Gr. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 9.—L. suuveolens W. Sch. Syst. vi. 441. 



pallida Host, Fl. Austr. i. 208.— Periclymeuum ^^ Presl, ex DC. Prodr. iv. 322, n. 7. 



