NAT. ORDER. 
CephcelidecB. 
CEPILELIS IPECACUANHA. IPECACUAN. 
Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, superior, quinquefied. Flowers in an involucred 
head. Corolla tubular. Stigma two-parted. Berry two-seeded. 
Receptacle chafTy. 
Spe. Char. Stem simple, ascending, somewhat shrubby, sarmentose 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, somewhat pubescent. Head of 
Flowers terminal, pedunculated, solitary. Corolla five-pleft, 
chaffy. Bracteas large. Livolucre tetraphyllous. 
The Cephcelis Ipecacuanha is a perenniel plant, a native of Brazil, 
and in moist situations in the provinces of Rio Janeiro, Mariannia, 
Pernambuqua, Bahia, etc., inhabiting the woods, and flowering from 
December to March. The root is simple, or somewhat branched, 
and furnished with a few short radicles ; it is roundish, three or four 
inches in length and two or three lines in thickness, irregularly bent, 
externally of a brown color, and annulated with numerous promi- 
nent, unequal rings ; the stem is procumbent at the base, rising 
from five to nine inches in height, round, the thickness of a hen's 
quill ; smooth, leafless, of a brownish color, knotted at the lower 
part, and leafy towards the upper : after the first year it throws out 
a few knotty runners, from which, about six inches apart, new stems 
arise ; the inferior leaves are caduous, so that not more than eight 
generally remain at the summit of each stem, where it flowers : they 
are nearly sessile, opposite, spreading, ovate, pointed at both ends, 
three or four inches long and less than two broad ; of a bright 
green on the upper surface, beneath of a whitish green color, pu- 
bescent, varied ; at the base of each pair of leaves, is a pair of 
