Am.  Joxir.  Phami. 
July,  1881. 
Gleanings  in  Materia  Medica. 
339 
False  Jaborandi.  Apex 
and  transverse  section. 
leaves  consists  of  one  row  of  cells,  which  in  the 
true  jaborandi  are  larger,  have  thin  walls,  and 
-are  usually  filled  with  a  brown  mass,  insoluble 
even  in  boiling  alcohol.  The  epidermal  cells  of 
the  false  jaborandi  have  the  inner  walls  rela- 
tively much  thicker  and  occasionally  contain  a 
granular,  but  never  a  brown  mass,  hence  these 
leaves  are  always  of  a  brighter  green.  The  pali- 
sade tissue  under  the  upper  epidermis  is  in  the 
true  jaborandi  of  about  the  height  of  the  epider- 
mal cells,  but  in  the  false  jaborandi  it  is  mostly 
twice  as  high.  The  fibrovascular  bundles  in  the 
midrib  of  the  true  jaborandi  have  almost  always 
a  nearly  continuous  circle  of  bast  cells,  while  the 
false  jaborandi  has  usually  merely  a  few  scattered 
groups  of  bast  cells  on  the  line  of  the  cambium 
'Circle. — Fhar.  Zeltung,  May  21,  p.  305. 
Angr cecum  fragrams,  P.  Th. — Dr.  H.  Paschkis 
'describes  the  faham  leaves  or  Bourbon  tea  of  French  commerce  as  con- 
sisting of  well-preserved  entire  leaves  and  leafy  stalks.  When  fresh  they 
have  an  agreeable  but  not  very  strong  smell,  remotely  resembling  that 
of  coumarin.  They  are  yellow  or  yellowish-brown ;  softening  like  leather 
in  water ;  very  tough ;  attain  a  length  of  over  7  centimeters  and  a 
breadth  of  more  than  1  cm. ;  are  linear,  rounded  and  emarginate  at  the 
apex,  attenuate  and  sheathing  at  the  base,  and  have  the  parallel  veins 
more  prominent  on  the  under  side.  The  epidermis  of  the  upper  sur- 
face is  free  from  stomata  and  consists  of  regular  long  hexagonal  cells, 
which  contain  either  minute  light-refracting  granules,  brilliant  drops 
-or  scales,  or  delicate  needles,  scales  and  tables,  which  latter  are  soluble 
in  alcohol  and  ether  and  run  together  in  potassa  solution  to  drops, 
refracting  light  strongly.  The  lower  surface  contains  numerous  sto- 
mata margined  by  swelled  thickened  guard  cells,  and  consists  of  more 
elongated  epidermal  cells  and  bears  in  depressions  brown  stalked 
glandules.  The  cuticle  is  thick  yellowish-brown.  The  sub-ej^idermal 
layer  consists  of  thickened  cells  with  narrow  lumens,  larger  on  the 
upper  side,  smaller  and  nearly  circular  on  the  lower  side.  The  meso- 
phyll  is  a  wide-meshed  tissue,  the  cells  being  elongated  above  and 
quadratic  below,  some  larger  elongated  ones  containing  raphides. 
The  prosenchyma  of  the  vascular  bundles  consists  of  netted  porous 
