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CCIII.— PARAGUAY JABORANDI. 
(Pilocarpus pennatifolius, — ) 
In 1881 there was opis through the Foreign Office from Mr. 
E. H. Egerton, C.B., then Her ? Majesty’ s Chargé QP Affaires at Bites 
Ayres, a supply of las of * Jaborandi,” an ае -producing plant 
found in Paraguay. he Jaborandi usually met with in commerce 
Professor Oliver, F.R.S., the late keeper of the Herbarium and 
Library of the Royal Gardens examined the Jaborandi received from Mr, 
specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Paraguay, collected by Gilbert 
and Balansa, referred to Pilocarpus pennatifolius, Lemaire 
erbarium also contains leafy specimens (without inflorescence) 
of di Pernambuco Jaborandi, which probably belong to an allied but 
different рев judging from the indentation and the form of the base 
of the leaflet 
* P. penna atifolius appears to have been introduced from St. Paulo, 
but Baillon has identified with the species fragments gathered in 
Corrientes by Bonpland. 
* [ doubt if P. selloanus, Engl. be distinct.” 
The Paraguay Jaborandi appears to be <=" vmm than the Brazilian. 
The particular characteristics of the form e carefully worked out in 
the following correspondence. It has not haid fonnd possible to carry 
the matter farther, and the information тн is placed on record for 
the use of those interested in the subjec 
Foreign OFFICE to Royan GARDENS, Kew. 
Sir, Foreign Office, 1 September 1881. 
I am directed by Earl Granite: о transmit to you Pee 
for your information, an extract from a despatch from Her Majesty's 
Chargé d’ Affaires at Buenos inn cma certain vegetable products 
of Paraguay. 
Iam, &с. 
Sir J. Hooker, K.C.S.I., (Signed) T. V. Lister. 
&c «е. &c. 
ExTRACT from Mr. EcxRTON's No. 5 COMMERCIAL of J uly 31, 1881. 
Iw answer to my numerous inquiries respecting eem: dye and 
fibrous plants, I learnt that one of the most remarkable of the former 
is a plant which grows in great quantities in Paraguay, di virtues of 
which first became known in Europe about six or seven years ago 
called Jaborandi, from which a product called Pilocarpine is made, 
which is unequalled for its effect as a sudorific. There are said to be 
two kinds of this plant in Par mis yoa one of which only is efficient. 
i which is extremely common, called the yambayu, 
which the Indians дор 4 is used at Buenos Ayres—as a cure 
