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s yn Virgens ” (or virgin tropical forests) and the ‘‘ Catingas "' 
(or woods composed of smaller deciduous trees) in moist, shady 
itoatga (Markham, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. x. 1870, p . 391. 
Ipecacuanha is recorded as being s pie at Lagos, 1892 
(Rowland and Millen, List of Cultiv. Pl. Lagos), and at Abutshi— 
though not very successfully (Woo oiu Rep. Bot. Plantn. 
Abutshi, 20th May, 1890; Kew Bull. 1891, p. 94). 
‘“ The prospects of Ipecacuanha cultivation, which is no less 
important than that of Cinchona, is far less encouraging. This 
arises not so much from want of success in establishing and 
increasing the plant as from the apparently extremely slow growth 
of the underground rootstock from which the drug is obtained 
and the small yield of even a fully grown plant. Nevertheless 
the cultivation musi be persevered with, the causes that retard 
Ref ee Naturelle et eee des espéces d’ ssi 
du Commerce, Achille Richar ps. 2 ata (Béchet, Paris, 
" Gephacli Tosca à D A Tens Ipecacuanha,"' in 
Mat. Med. eram. ii. pp. 1591-1601 Losses London, 1853). 
——-': Notes the Propagation of the cacuan Plant 
(Cepháelis Ipecacnana), " M’Nab, in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, 
x. 1870, pp. 318-324.——'' Memora ndum on Ipecacuanha, 
diners L6. pp. 391-392. “ Remarks on the mE 
Plant ( SES hàelis I UL as cultivated in the Royal Bot 
ns. Roy. Soc. T 
xxvi. —188.——'' Pharmaceutical Results of the 
Quietus Beni cedi Acclimatization of Jalap and Ipeca- 
euanha," in Pharm. Journ. [3] iv. 1873, pp. 221-222; Acclima- 
tization of Ipecacuanha, pp. 241—242; pp. 261-263, from the 
Report of the Superintendent.——*' Radix Tpecacuanha,”’ in 
Pharmacographia, Flückiger and Hanbury, pp. : 
** Cephaelis Ipecacuanha," in Med. Pl. Bentley and Trimen, 
po, 145, T en "Ce vidt Ipecacuanha," in Med. Pflan. 
ages.——‘‘ ean d Ipecacuanha),"" 
de des Ipecuanhas de leurs 
18 a 
me "Moeller, pp. 311-314 (Wien. 1889).—— <“ Cephüelis 
Ipecacuanha," in Dict. Econ. ue India, Watt, ii. 1889, 
p. 247-251 . 2, 1892, Imp. 
Serios, PP ——‘‘ The {yecactanh of pp 14 Sr 
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