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292  PHARMACEUTICAL  NOTES. 
Scutellaria  tertia,  alluded  to  as  probably  applying  to  our  speci- 
men : 
"  Totius  fruticis  sapor  multo  penetrantior  est  quam  in  ullis  prioribus  spe- 
ciebus  (viz  :  A.  cochleata,  A.  pinnata,)  magisque  ad  ilium  Petroselini  adcedens, 
ita  ut  Apium  fruticans  posset  haberi.    Sapor  autem  gratissimus  in  ejus  radi- 
cis  detegitur,  quae  maxime  etiam  in  usum  vocatur  Haec 
planta  non  tantum  hortorum  ornamento  inservit,  sed  prsecipue  in  re  medica 
adhibetur,  atque  ab  incolis  tanquam  PetroseLinum  sen  Apium  in  usuui  vocatur  ; 
ejusque  folia  ac  radix  virtutem  habent  diureticam,  multo  efficaciorem  binis 
prsecedentibus  speciebus  ;  simulque  vel  haec  sola  aqua?  incoquitur  et  propina- 
tur  in  nephritide  contra  mictus  dolorificos  uti  contra  dysuriam,  mictus  cruen- 
tos,  et  gonorrhoeam  Simplex  foliorum  decoctum  sarpius  pro- 
pinatum  fuit  in  nosocomio  hominibus  nephritide  laborantibus,  quibus  urinam 
vehementer  expellabat.  Decoctum  istud  tarn  radicis  quam  foliorum  a  muli- 
eribus  etiam  adhibetur  ad  menstrua  provocanda." 
The  last  sentence  certainly  is  not  so  much  in  support  of  my 
suggestion,  nor  do  the  names  given  by  Rumpf  convey  a  more 
definite  information.  But  otherwise  the  descriptions  agree,  and 
the  plant  is  universally  cultivated  at  least  in  Amboyna,  Java 
and  China. 
One  of  the  roots  described  by  Thunberg  is  the  Radix  Ninsi 
from  Sium  Sisarum  var.  Ninsi  (DeC.  Prod.,  iv.  124.  Thunberg, 
Flora  Japan,  p.  118.  Kaempfer,  Amoen,  p.  818.  Linn.,  Icon. 
Plant.  Med.,  505.  Berle  de  Chine,  Lamark  Diet.  Th.  F.  L.  Nees 
von  Es.  Plant,  off.  284,)  which  in  his  time  was  imported  from  China 
into  Japan,  where  it  was  used  as'  a  cordial  and  sold  at  the  rate  of 
600  Thalers  the  pound.  I  mention  this  here  because  in  Pereira's 
Elements  of  Materia  Medica,  Amer.  edition,  ii.  Had.  Ninsi  is 
given  as  one  of  the  synonyms  of  Ginseng,  the  Japanese  names  of 
which,  there  being  two  varieties,  are  Tjoosen-ninsin  and  Josino- 
ninsin. 
Jacca-nuts,  from  Artocarpus  integrifolia,  L. — Under  the  name 
of  Paradise-nuts  I  have  lately  met  with  these  at  several  fruit 
stores.  Tney  appeared  to  be  altogether  new  to  the  several  deal- 
ers, none  of  them  being  acquainted  with  the  proper  name,  nor 
could  the  broker  who  sold  them  give  any  clue  as  to  their  origin, 
or  had  invented  the  name  under  which  they  were  sold  as  not  af- 
fording much  information.  From  the  fact,  however,  that  the 
jacca  or  jack  tree,  together  with  other  varieties  of  the  bread- 
fruit proper,  is  cultivated  in  the  West  Indies,  I  conclude  that  they 
were  imported  from  one  of  the  islands,  though  it  is  also  within 
