STYRACEAE. 
TYR Tournefort. 
Bae Cis oriGk Torr. 
OLEACEAE. 
Genus MENODORA Humb. 
MENODORA SCABRA A. Gray. 
MENDORA SCOPARIA Engelm. 
us FRAXINUS Tournefort. 
TAs Ae a oA 
J 
F OREG ANA Nutt. da 11 
APOCYNACEAE. 
ynum C abinum In n 
hemp possesses. diuretic, cathartic, 
emeti ndd oretic properties. 
wide distribution, f e to Baja 
Cal ose ia, eastward bi oa Atlantic. .- 
very eful remedy ny a 
pcioaltinres called atte 5 Ipecac. 
Apocy androsasemifolium L.—O 
Spats owide distribution as the last, 
with similar medical properti 
ASCLEPIADACEAE. 
Genus PHILIBERTELLA Vail. 
“Calyx small, parted, the lobes acute; 
an outer crown in its t 
s, oF flattish appen- 
dages, attached in a circle at the base of 
the sessile or slightly stalked gynostegi- 
um (column), forming a hollow entire or 
undulate spreading surface near the lev- 
el of the conical stigmas; follicles naked, 
slender, attenuate at both ends or obtuse 
Twining herbs, or partly 
shrubby plants, of warm regions 
c 
sometimes fragran 
gE Tr Murray Vail 
cl b 24 is Oe 
Fr isweae Vail Ic 
The West American Sctentist.—X. 
& Bonpt. 
var eae phylla Vail 
PORER TELL A-Vail 
ASCLEPIAS Linnaeus. 
Decsne. 
Deesne.—"Ju mete” 
1e Indians are 
ten resulting in i 
nity or death. In Mexi 
is a similar anne is said 
1 cases of enmity, the 
victim o i 
in 
Carlotta, as 
he eu h of this may never be 
know 
ASCL erie ALBICANS S. Watso 
Ascleyias Albicans Watson.—. 
werful cathart tic proper- 
ies es as ein last. 
EPIAS para are Benth. 
‘LEPIAS EROSA 
CLEPIAS ME >. 4 fo) ANA "Cay. 
ASCL EPIAS VESTITA H. & A. 
ASTEPHANUS UTAHE 
Genu R. Brown. 
GOMPHOCARPUS TOMENTOSUS ran & 8 
Genus SARCOSTEMMA R. Brow 
YSIS Engelm. 
S heterophyllum E is Philibertia line1- 
ris heterophylla fide G 
§ 
PHILIBERTIA TORREYI A. Gray. 
GENTIANACEAE. 
s KRYTHRAEA Pers. 
ERYTHRAEA DOUGLASII Gray. 
Erythraea Douglesii Gray.—‘It con 
tains a bitter, tonic principle, valued 
for malarial disease es ns yn as 
Nettie eopabres ** (Mrs. Bingham) in 
commo with other plants of the order 
Gentianacea e, 
YTHRAEA a Griseb. 
vist HRAEA VENUSTA ray. 
cielo Ap Mice Gray. Asohis is the 
co “canchalagua” of Southern 
na "Bale Ecitocute selaeoreg grows | 
suai and abundantly in wet seasons 
and is usually saihaaas and kept con- 
