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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Macrocnemum,^ Hippotis,^ Remijia,^ Conclaminea,^ Bathjsa,^ In India, 

 Luculia gratissima ^ and Hymenodictijon excelsum ^ produce a false 

 Cinchona praised as a febrifuge ; and in tropical Africa, Crossopteryx 

 fehrifuga ^ has a similar reputation. Besides the American species 

 E. carihceum^ (fig. 343) and E. floribundum^^ formerly renowned as 

 febrifuges, the genus Exostema is represented in Oceania by Badusa,^^ 

 which has similar properties They are said to be found also in 

 another South Sea species, Bikkea australis ^'- and in some congeneric 

 plants of New Caledonia. The Manettias have been recommended as 

 febrifuge ; M. cordifolia,^^ however, is evacuant and is prescribed for 

 dysentery, dropsy, (Src. 



The barks of the Fiuhiacece are rarely aromatic. More frequently 

 the corolla has a sweet odour and contains much essence resembling 

 Orange flower in perfume. The same is true of several Gardenias, 

 particularly G. florida (fig. 297, 298) and citriodora ; a great many 

 Ixoras, whose name some of the perfumes bear ; the Coffees, 

 especially Coffea arahica, the odour of which has been compared with 

 that of Jasmine ; the Cinchonas, whose inflorescences are sometimes 



* EosENTH. op. cit. 336. 



2 In Mexico H. arborescens (Sommera arbo- 

 rescens Schlchtl) yields a bitter bark, substi- 

 tuted for quinquina. 



^ A. Saint-Hilaire has described tbem as 

 Brazilian Cinchonas, and has set forth their tonic 

 and febrifuge virtues. They are principally R. 

 Vellozii DC. {Cinchona Vellozii A. S.-H.)* R. 

 ferruginea DC. {C.ferruginea A.S.-H.) R. HUarii 

 DC. {C. Remijiana A. S.-H.) vulgarly named 

 Quhia da campo, da serra, da Remij'o ; R. cuja- 

 bensis {Quina da Cujaha) and R. Bergeriana, 

 Jirmula and macrocnemia Wedd. (Rosenth. op. 

 cit. 339, 340). 



^ C. tinctoria DC. furnishes the Bark of Pa- 

 raguatan. G. corymbosa DC. {Macrocnemum 

 corymbosum H. B.) has a tonic febrifuge tinc- 

 torial bark. 



* To this genus belong Exostema atistrale and 

 cuspidatum A. S.-H. (PL Us. Bras. t. 3). 



6 Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. t. 145.- DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 358. — Cinchona gratissima Wall. Roxb. Fl. 

 2nd. ii. 154; Tent. Fl. Nepal, i. 30, t. 21.— 

 Mussaenda Luculia Ham. (Zuculi Swa, Ussakoli, 

 Cortex Chinee nepalensis off.). 



? Wall. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 149.— DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 358, n. 1. — Cinchona excelsa Roxb. PL Corom. 

 ii. 3, t. 106 {Bundaroo en telinga). 



sBenth. Niger Fl. 381. — C. Kotschijana 

 Fenzl, Endl. Nov. St. 46.— Hiern, Fl. Tr. Afr. 

 iii. 44, — Rondeletia febrifuga Afzel. — R. afri- 

 cana Winterb. {BembeCy Bellenda). 



9 R. et ScH. Syst. v. 18.— DC. Prodr. iv. 359, 

 n. 1. — GuiB. op. cit. iii. 187. — Lindl. Fl. Med. 

 430. — Rosenth. op. cit. 337. — Cinchona cariboea 

 Jacq. Amer. t. 179, f. 65; Obs. t. 17. — Lamb. 

 Cinch, t. 4. — GjERTN. Fruct. i. t. 33. — C.jamai- 

 censis Wright, Trans, Soc. Roy. Lond. Ixvii. 

 504, t. 10 (Quinquina cara'ibe). 



10 R. et Sen. Syst. v. 19.— DC. Prodr. n. 9.— 

 C.Jloribtwda Sw. Prodr. il.—Fl. Ltd. Occ. 375. 

 — Lamb. Cinch. 27, t. 7. — C. montana Bad. — C. 

 Luciana Vitm. (Quinquina Piton, Q. de Sainte- 

 Lucie, Sea- side Beech). 



^' B. corymbifera A. Gray (p. 491, note 8). — 

 Cinchona corymbifera Forst. Act. Nov. Upsal. 

 iii. 176. — Lamb. Cinch. 25, t. 5. — Exostemma 

 corymbiferum R. et Sch. Syst. v. 20. — DC. 

 Prodr. n. 12. — Rosenth. op. cit. 338. 



i"-^ DC. Prodr. iv. 405. — Bikkia grandiflora 

 Reinw. Bl. Bijdr. 1017. — Portlandia te- 

 trandra Forst, Prodr. n. 86 (Quinquina de 

 Sanaya). 



13 Mart. Spec. Mat. Med. Bras. i. 19, t. 7.— 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 363, n. 8.— Lindl. Fl. Med. 432. 

 — Rosenth. op. cit. 337. 



