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CEPHAELIS IPECACUANHA. 
required quantities, and of equal quality, near Agra. Dr. 
Gibson has however for some years been growing it in the 
Bombay Presidency for the public service there, and where 
the senna is equally well approved of. By the small spe- 
cimen you will see in the form of the leaves that they are 
those of the true officinal senna. The color is good, and the 
leaves have been carefully picked. They are smaller than 
those of Tinnevelly senna, being grown in a drier climate, 
that of the Deccan. — Pharmaceutical Journal, February, 
1850. 
ART. XXXV — ON THE CEPHAELIS IPECACUANHA. 
By M. Weddell. 
The introduction of ipecacuanha as a European remedy 
does not date anterior to the end of the seventeenth century. 
The first discovery of it, no doubt, is due to the Indians who 
preceded the Portuguese in the Brazilian territories; or, if 
we are to believe tradition, we may consider man, as in the 
case of the cinchona bark, to have been preceded by the 
animals. 
The origin of the word ipecacuanha is very obscure, and 
in no part of Brazil is it employed to designate the Cephae/is, 
while, on the contrary, that of Poaya'is most --generally 
used. 
Modern authors who have written on the Cephaelis ipe- 
cacuanha state it to exist in a vast zone, comprising all the 
provinces of Brazil, from the equator to the tropic of Capri- 
corn, and between the Atlantic and the mountainous coun- 
try of the interior. During late years,however, this region 
has become much extended; and at the present time its lon- 
gitude is equal to its latitude. In the year 1824 the Ce- 
phaelis was discovered in the province of Matto-Grosso ; 
but no exportation of it took place until about the year 1832. 
