145 CEPHAELIS IPECACUANHA 



even mustard ; hence these substances are better adapted as 

 emetics for evacuating the contents of the stomach in cases of 

 poisoning. 



Emetia has sometimes been employed, more especially on the 

 Continent of Europe, as a substitute for ipecacuanha; but it 

 presents no advantages over the crude drug, and its use might 

 be followed by serious and even fatal consequences. 



Per. Mat. Med., by B. & R., p. 703; Pharmacographia, p. 331; 

 U. S. Disp., by W. & B., p. 494; Pharmacopoeia of India, p. 

 115 ; Garr., Mat. Med., p. 285 ; Boyle's Mat. Med., by J. 

 Harley, p. 549; Gmelin's Chemistry, vol. xv (1862), p. 523; 

 Balfour in Pharm. Journ., vol. ii, 3 ser,, pp. 948 and 969 ; 

 Pharm. Journ., 3 ser., vol. iv, p. 569; Amer. Journ. Pharm. 

 vol. xxiii, p. 352, and vol. xxv, p. 474 ; Attfield, in Proc. Brit. 

 Pharm. Conf. (1869), pp. 3739 ; Pharm. Journ., 1 ser., vol. x, 

 p. 608 ; Planchon, in Journ. de Pharm., vol. xvi, p. 404, and 

 vol. xvii, p. 19; Duckworth, in St. Bartholomew's Hosp. 

 Reports, vols. v and vii. 



DESCRIPTION OP PLATE. 



Drawn from a plant in the Royal Gardens, Kew, flowering in April ; the 

 fruit copied from Balfour. 



1. Upper part of the plant. 



2. Lower part and root. 



3. Corolla laid open. 



4. Section of ovary. 



5. Ovary, calyx, and disk. 



6. Cluster of fruit (from the short-styled plant). 



7. Transverse section of a fruit. 



8. A pyrene, ventral surface. 



9. A seed. 



(39 enlarged.) 



