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Pichi is the dried leafy twigs of Fabiana imbricata, a siirub 

 with small, scale-like leaves, indigenous to Chile. It contains a 

 volatile oil; o.i per cent, of a bitter alkaloid; a glucoside resem- 

 bling sesculin ; and a bitter resin. 



Solaniim Dulcamara (Bitter sweet) is a perennial, climbing 

 herbaceous plant (Fig. 176), indigenous to Europe and Asia and 



Fig. 176. Bitter sweet {Solanwm Dulcamara), a climbing dne showing the peculiar 

 3-divIded leaves with large terminal segment, and cymose clusters of berries. 



naturalized in the Northern United States. The young branches 

 were formerly official as Dulcamara. The branches which have 

 begun to develop periderm are collected and cut into pieces 10 to 

 20 mm. long. The pieces are somewhat angular, greenish-brown, 

 hollow, of a slightly narcotic odor and a sweetish, somewhat 

 bitter taste. The drug contains a bitter glucoside, dulcamarin, 

 and the gluco-alkaloid solanine. 



