Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
Oct.,  1877.  ; 
Solatium  Paniculatum. 
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wounds  and  ulcers"  (Jour,  de  Chem.  Med.,  v,  423,  from  Voyage  to 
Brazil).  Merat  and  De  Lens  (Diet.  Univ.  Mat.  Med.,  vi,  p.  419) 
refer  to  the  use  of  the  juice  of  the  leaves  and  fresh  fruit  of  the  juru- 
beba  in  the  Antilles,  where  it  is  known  as  the  croc  de  chlen  and  is  much 
esteemed  in  the  treatment  of  the  affections  mentioned  above.  They 
also  state  that  Pison  had  used  the  decoction  of  the  root  with  decided 
success  in  the  treatment  of  dropsical  affections.  In  his  "Herbarium 
Florae  Brasiliensis,  Monachii,"  1837,  p.  157,  Dr.  C.  T.  Ph.  de  Mar- 
tius  states  that  the  Solanum  paniculatum,  Lin.,  is  the  true  jurepeba 
of  Pison,  a  drawing  of  which  is  given  in  the  latter's  work  on  Brazil 
(p.  84)  and  also  in  Marcgraff  (p.  89,  edit.  1648).  He  also  states  that 
there  is  a  variety  with  sub  entire  leaves,  which  is  described  in  Velloso 
(Flor.  Flum.,  t.  ii,  p.  124)  under  the  name  of  Solanum  jubeba,  which 
signifies  soft  berry,  from  the  words  juia,  berry  or  fruit,  and  beba  or 
peba,  soft. 
The  jurubeba,  which  is  described  by  Linnaeus  (Spec.  Plant.,  vol.  ty 
p.  267),  by  Aublet  (Plant,  de  Guiane,  vol.  i,  p.  216),  more  fully  by 
De  Candolle  (Pro.,  xiii,  p.  197),  and  in  the  Universal  Herbal  (edition 
1820,  vol.  ii,  p.  597)  of  Thomas  Green,  under  the  name  of  the paniclea 
nightshade,  is  a  plant  with  a  fruticose  and  prickly  stem  ;  leaves,  accord- 
ing to  the  variety,  of  which  there  are  two,  either  cordate  sinuate,  or 
b  Vertical  section. 
c  Transverse  section,  with  seeds  in  situ. 
d  Same,  with  seeds  removed,  showing  membranous  character  of  the  dissepiments. 
lobed  or  incised  ;  flowers  terminal,  disposed  in  panicles,  and  fruit  a 
four-celled  spherical  be.rry,  each  cell  containing  from  twelve  to  fifteen 
small  flattened  seeds  of  a  light-brown  color,  imbedded  in  a  semi-trans- 
parent juicy  pulp  ;  pericarp  thin  and  of  an  olive-green  color.  Accord- 
ing to  Chernovix  (Formulario,  9th  edit.,  p.  508)  all  parts  of  the  plant 
contain  mucilage  and  a  bitter  principle.    The  plant  grows  in  the  vicin- 
