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Striated  Ipecacuanhas. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t    April  1, 1873. 
cacuanha,  and  of  which  he  had  sent  the  mother  plant  to  Linnaeus. 
At  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century  and  the  beginning  of  the  nine- 
teenth this  sort  was  to  be  met  with  rather  frequently  in  collections  of 
drugs  if  not  in  pharmacies.  It  is  clearly  the  root  of  the  Psychotria 
emetica  which  Richard  describes  in  his  inaugural  thesis*  under  the 
name  of  striated  ipecacuanha ;  whilst  Merat  and  De  Lensf,  and  more 
lately  Guibourt,J  confound  it  under  the  same  name  with  the  minor 
striated  ipecacuanha. 
This  kind  has  occurred  in  commerce  from  time  to  time,  but  in  the 
present  day  it  has  little  chance  of  entering  a  pharmacy.  Mr.  Han- 
bury  has  sent  me  a  specimen  that  was  offered  to  the  Pharmacie  Cen- 
trale  in  Paris  in  1858  under  the  name  of  Ipecacuanha  of  St.  Martha. 
M.  Vogl  has  described  it  in  a  memoir  under  the  name  of  Ipecacuanha 
glycyj)hlcea,%  and  states  that  it  was  sent  into  the  market  of  Bremen 
as  Carthagena  Ipecacuanha.  Some  fragments  which  I  owe  to  the 
kindness  of  Mr.  Hanbury  came  from  some  packages  sent  from  Bogota 
in  1870  and  offered  in  the  London  market.  It  was  from  these  pack- 
ages the  specimens  were  taken  that  were  analyzed  by  Professor  Att- 
field,||  and  which  he  called  "elastic  striated  ipecacuanha."  Lastly, 
it  was  a  short  time  previously  that  M.  Dorvault  received  at  the  Phar- 
macie Centrale  the  "  violet"  ipecacuanha  which  attracted  my  atten- 
tion and  which  agrees  as  nearly  as  possible  with  the  roots  of  Psycho- 
tria  emetica. 
It  appears  difficult  to  say  when  the  "minor"  striated  ipecacuanha 
first  appeared  in  commerce.  But  it  is  clear  that  this  was  the  kind 
analyzed  by  Pelletier  in  1820,**  since  that  chemist  noticed  79  per  ct. 
of  woody  fibre,  gum  and  starch,  and  we  know  that  only  the  "minor" 
contains  starch.  Now  this  species  existed  in  the  drug  cabinet  of  the 
father  of  Pelletier  under  the  name  of  "  Ipecacuanha  des  Cotes  d'Or 
*Histoire  Naturelle  des  Diverses  Especes  d'Ipecacuanha  du  Commerce 
(Theses  de  la  Faculte  de  Medecine  de  Paris,  1820). 
fDict.  de  Matiere  Medicale,  1831,  vol.  iii,  p.  643. 
%  Guibourt's  figures  (Hist.  Nat.  des  Drogues  Simples,  6th  edit.,  vol.  iii,  p.  94) 
agree  in  part  (the  two  larger  specimens)  with  the  "  major"  striated  ipecacuan- 
ha, and  in  part  (the  specimen  placed  between  the  other  two)  with  the  "  minor." 
gVogl,  loc.  cit.  The  authors  of  the  Jahresbericht  der  Pharmacognosie, 
etc.,  are  wrong  in  referring  this  Ipecacuanha  glycyphloea  to  Cephaelis.  All  its 
characters,  exterior  and  anatomical,  agree  with  those  of  my  "major"  striated 
ipecacuanha. 
|,  II  Pharm.  Journ.  [2],  vol.  xi,  p.  141. 
**  Journ.  Pharm.  et  de  Chim.,  vol.  vi,  p.  261. 
