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indigenous to Southern Europe, they belong to the southern hemisphere, 

 and especially to the Cape of Good Hope and Australia. The few of the 

 New World, however, are tropical, principally Brazilian. The odorous 

 leaves of the Bucku plants, or true Diosmeee of South Africa, are antispas- 

 modics, diuretics, &c. But the American species furnish the most impor- 

 tant medicines; such, especially, as the Angostura bark, which is thought 

 to be the produce of Galipea cusparia, and which in South America is 

 esteemed as the most valuable of all febrifuges, " being adapted to the most 

 malignant bilious fevers ; while the fevers in which Cinchona is chiefly ad- 

 ministered are simple intermittents, for the most part unattended with dan- 

 ger. The Indians also use the bruised bark as a means of intoxicating 

 fishes ; which is a very singular coincidence with what is mentioned by Dr. 

 Saunders, of the same use being made of the Cinchona bark by the Peruvi- 

 ans." Lindley. 



