Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
April  1,  1873.  J 
Striated  Ipecacuanhas. 
171 
(Mioas  de  Oro),"  and  Pelletier  adds  that  he  also  recognized  it  in  a 
mercantile  house  which  had  received  it  from  Peru,  via  Cadiz.  More- 
over, it  must  have  been  present  at  that  time  in  most  collections.  It 
was  this  sort  that  M.  Guibourt  used  principally  for  illustration  at  the 
School  of  Pharmacy,  and  it  is  the  only  sort  which  I  have  found  named 
as  striated  ipecacuanha  at  the  Pharmacie  Centrale  des  Hopitaux.  M. 
Vogl*  saw  it  in  the  collection  at  Vienna  described  as  Ipecacuanha 
-striata  sen  nigra.  Professor  Attfield  found  it  in  the  Museum  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  and  analyzed  it  under  the 
name  of  "brittle  striated  ipecacuanha."f  Finally,  it  has  recently 
been  described  in  detail  by  Mr.  Pocklington  in  a  paper  on  the  use  of 
the  microscope  in  pharmacy. J 
It  is  remarkable  that  this  latter  sort  has  hitherto  been  considered 
hj  most  authors  to  be  the  produce  of  the  Psychotria  emetica,  to  the 
•exclusion  of  the  former.  Pelletier  first,  then  successively  Vogl,  The'- 
oot,  C.  Me'nier  and  Pocklington  have  referred  it  to  that  origin.  Pro- 
fessor Balfour,§  also,  after  describing  the  Psychotria  emetica,  attrib- 
uted to  the  root  of  that  species  the  chemical  composition  given  by  Pel- 
letier, which  we  have  seen  could  only  have  agreed  with  that  of  the 
4i  minor"  striated  ipecacuanha.  The  more  active  properties  of  the 
4i  minor  "  sort,  its  greater  richness  in  emetina,  and  also  the  fact  of  its 
having  been  analyzed  by  Pelletier,  have  brought  it  into  greater  pro- 
minence and  caused  it  to  be  looked  upon  as  the  true  type  of  striated 
ipecacuanha,  and  consequently  the  botanical  origin  generally  attrib- 
uted to  striated  ipecacuanha  has  been  specially  applied  to  it.  In  no 
other  way  can  the  general  error  into  which  authors  have  hitherto 
fallen  be  explained. 
To  sum  up,  there  exist  two  sorts  of  striated  ipecacuanha,  of  which 
the  following  appears  to  be  the  synonymy : 
1.  "Major"  Striated  Ipecacuanha. — Roots  of  Psychotria  erne- 
tica,  L. — Ipecacuanha  gris  cendre  glyeyrrhize,  Lemery  (Diet.  Drog. 
Simp.  p.  459).  Ipecacuanha  strie,  Richard  (These  Inaug.)  Ipecacu- 
anha strie  (partirn),  Merat  and  De  Lens  (Diet.  Mat.  Med.  vol.  iii,  p. 
€43) ;  Guibourt  (Drog.  Simp.  Gth  edit.  vol.  iii,  p.  94).  Ipecacuanha 
*  Jahresbericht  d.  Pharmacognosie,  1867,  p.  64. 
t  Pharm.  Journ.  [2],  vol.  xi,  p.  141. 
X  "The  Microscope  in  Pharmacy"  (Pharm.  Journ.  [3],  vol.  ii,  p.  921). 
£  "  Remarks  on   Plants  furnishing  Varieties   of  Ipecacuanha"  (Pharm. 
Journ.  [3],  vol.  ii,  p.  970). 
