NOTICE OF SOME BRAZILIAN DRUGS. 
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to which they were subjected by Mr. Procter, no evidence 
of the existence of an organic base was afforded. 
The plants affording a variety of barks derived from Brazil, 
were placed by St. Hilaire in the genus Cinchona, from this 
however they have been separated by De Candolle, and erect- 
ed into a new genus under the name of Remijia, in honor of a 
surgeon named Remijo, who introduced the use of their bark 
in Brazil as a substitute for Cinchona. 
Their characters are as follows: Col. tube obovate, limb 
persistently five-cleft. Cor. tube terete, limb five-cleft, laci- 
niate, linear. Stam. filament inserted in the middle of the tube, 
inequal ; anthers linear, entirely included. Capsul. ovate, bilocu- 
lar, crowned with the calyx, locularly dehiscing, or according 
to St. Hilaire, dehiscing from the septum ; the valves bifid 
from the base to the apex. Placentae fleshy in each cell. 
Seeds many, imbricate peltate, alated on the margin. They 
are Brazilian trees — hardly racemose—called Qainade Serra, 
or Quina de Remijo. 
The leaves are oblong or ovate, coriaceous, below pro- 
foundly sulcate, opposite or ternate, revolute on the margin, 
beneath villose and ferruginate. Stipules lanceolate, connate 
at base and deciduous. Branches axillary elongated, inter- 
rupted, the fascicles of flowers opposite. CorroUa on the out- 
side tomentose. 
This genus differs from Cinchona in the capsule, which semi- 
locularly dehisces ; in the seeds, which are peltate, and in the 
inflorescence and habit. (De Cand. Prodrom. vol. 4, p. 359.) 
Four species that have been enumerated, are the R. ferru- 
ginea, R. Vellozia, R. Hilarii and R. paniculata. It appears 
to us probable that the first mentioned affords the article that 
has been described. It is figured in the " Plant es usuelles des 
Brasiliens" of St. Hilaire. 
In the " Formulario" a general notice is given of this bark, 
with the information that its qualities are similar to those of 
the Peruvian barks. 
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