DICECIA 
161 
ORDER IV. TETRANDRIA. 
(four males.) 
N° of 
Species in 
N° Genera. 
Growth. 
species. Native of 
Britain. 
16 Brucea* 
S 
1 Abyssinia 
3 7 Hippophae 
• s 
S Canada 
Brit. 1 
18 Montinia 
- s 
1 , Cape 
19 Trophis 
s 
S Jamaica, Asia 
SO Viscum 
s 
9 Cape 
Brit. 1 
Involucrum, 
SI Batis 
& ' 
1 Jamaica 
Amentum . 
SS Myricaf 
*' B ' 
7 JEthiopia, America 
Brit. 1 
ORDERLY. PENTANDRIA. 
(five males.) 
S3 Acnida 
h 
1 Virginia 
S4 Antidesma 
t 
1 India 
So Astronium 
s 
1 Jamaica 
S6 Canarium 
s 
1 India 
S7 CannabisJ 
h 
1 India 
* The bark of the root of the brucea antidysenterica (called by the natives woo*> 
ginoosj is a specific for the dysentery * The specific name antidysenterica was 
given by Sir Joseph Banks, but L. Heritier hath changed the name to brucea fer* 
ruginea. Bruce's Travels , 1790, vol. v. 
n. b The new red bark called angustura bark is supposed to be the production of 
the brucea•—Observations on the angustura bark, by Augustus Everad Brand, 1791 . 
But it hath been since said, that it seems to be neither the production of the 
inagnolia glauca nor grandiflora ; nor the brucea •-Dr* Simmons’s Medical 
facts, 1791. 
f The substance which is obtained from the female plant of candleberry myrtle 
(myrica cerifera) is from the covering of the berries, which is a granulated, white, 
unctuous substance; and after twice boiling, becomes a transparent green, and is 
a medium between wax and tallow. The leaves of the plant emit a grateful odour 
when bruised. 
J A female hemp hath sometimes had one'or two male flowers, and consequently 
good seed, from which some persons have doubted of the sexes of plants. The 
only two intoxicating articles of which the Kgffers in Africa have any knowledge, 
are tobacco and hemp (cannabis sativaj. The effects produced from smoking hemp 
are said to be fully as narcotic as opium*—Barrow’s Travels in Africa, printed 1801# 
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