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to have nearly the same effects as coffee made of roasted 

 acorns. 



31. Urgevao, or JarbaO, Verbena jamaicensis, L., is used 

 against fevers just as the common vervain in Europe ; but 

 particularly the fi-esh leaves bruised, are applied outwardly 

 to ulcers. 



32. Barbasco. Instead of the European kinds of Ver- 

 hascum (not found here), they use the leaves and blossoms 

 of the Budleya connata, which have emollient, and at the 

 same time gently astringent qualities. 



33. In the same manner they use, instead of the Euro- 

 pean mallow, the flowers of the Sida carpinifolia, L., and 

 several allied species. 



34. The leaves of several species of Bauhinia, which, on 

 account of its resemblance to the hoof of an ox, is called 

 Unha de boy, are employed when mucilaginous remedies 

 are required. 



35. Guiabo, or Guimgombo, seems to have been in- 

 troduced by the negroes from Africa. It is Hibiscus 

 escuLentiis, L. The young fruit, which contains much 

 vegetable mucilage and an agreeable acid, is frequently eaten 

 boiled, but the leaves are used as softening cataplasms. 



36. Carapixo da Calcada. Triumfetta Lappida and 

 semitriloba, L. The mucilaginous, and at the same time 

 astringent, properties of the leaves and fruit of this shrub, 

 which grows everywhere, especially on the road-side and in 

 the vicinity of dwellings, render it serviceable in injections 

 in gonor. invet. 



37. Basourinha or Vacourinha. Scoparia dulcis, L. 

 The herb contains mucilaginous matter, and the expressed 

 juice is chiefly employed in cooling purges. 



38. Caruru and Caruru vermelho, Amaranthus 

 viridis and melancholicus, L., as well as the Phytolacca de- 

 candra, L., are used for emollient cataplasms. These plants 



