ye ON THE CH‘ING MUH HSIANG. 
Venezuelans), A. odoratissima, Linn., 4.cordiflora, Mutis, A. anguic lit, 
inn., A. fragrantissima, Ruiz (the celebrated ‘‘ Bejuco de la Estrella ” 
of the Peruvians),|| 4. macroura, Gomez, A. cymbifera, M et 
et 
the accomplished investigator of the flora of New Granada, found 
- tenera, Pohl in daily use in similar cases, as a never-failing 
remedy, under the name of “ Matos.” 
ern physicians seem with one accord to regard these plants as 
diaphoretics, stimulant tonics, and emmenagogues only ; but the array 
of testimony from all quarters of the globe, and extending over a 
Pp 
rds of Cicero, 
the subject 
0 far as 1 have been able to discover from a rapid examination of the 
book—it is not inviting reading—almost the only plants to which Porta attri- 
butes the power of curing snake-bites are Tri i i 
aculeatus, 9 rutic , i 
Lupulus, Linn., Smilax aspera Linn, Arum mn 
culgatum, Linn. (Ed. Francofurt, 1608, pp. 268, 271, 274.) 
¢ DC. Ess. propr. méd. ed. 2, 259. Forskal is, I eve, the 
authority ard this statement; but the Specific determination ig 
or 8 ; n 
islands of the Aig otz: ivi 
(Die Aristol. d. Berl, herb., 595). It is likely, howev. 
cases A, i esf., may have been taken for it. Cfr. Duchartre’s remark 
preg frequent confusion of the two in herbaria (DC. Prod. xv. seet. prior, 
t Royle Ilustr. Himal. Bot., 330, 
§ Endlicher Enchirid. bot., 219 3 R. E. Griffith Med. Bot., 532, 
| A Ernst (Seem. Journ. B 
ing to Mr. ot. iii, 281), the “ Be; ae 
Estrella” of Venezuela is an undetermined Menisperma: cen ) ejuco de 
€ Weddell Voyage dans le nord de la Bolivie, 535, 
** De Divinat. i., 7, 
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