Flora Medica

gathered among rocks at Lactacunga in Quito. This latter specieshas the leaves all opposite, and the pedicels much longer than the leaves,in both which circumstances it differs from I. parviflorum.Along with this Cuchunchully Mr. Strangways received anothersample called Cuchunchully Colorado, which consisted of a very smallquantity of the first, mixed with some Cinchonaceous plant,not inflower, but very like Mitchella repens, and forming the principal part ofthe parcel. Independently of their Botanical distinctions the infusionsof these plants were extremely different ;that of the first being a palebright amber colour, of the latter a cloudy dull green. Samples of boththese are deposited in the Materia Medica Museums of UniversityCollege and King's College London, and were sent to the Medico-Botanical Society.These lonidia deserve to be attentively studied with reference totheir medicinal properties. In addition to the foregoing the followinghave been mentioned as furnishing active principles.209. I. parviflorum Vent. malm. p. 27. Roots extremelysimilar to Ipecacuanha in appearance and properties. Linn.210. Maytensillo Feuill.fi.chil. iii. p. 41. t. 28, referred bySir W. Hooker to the last species, is considered one of the mostsovereign purgatives of Chili.211. I. brevicaule Mart. 1. c. t. 8. f. 7. and t. 3; a Brazilianemetic. Powder of the bark of the root, rubbed up with sugarand milk, furnishes an agreeably sweet medicine.212. I. urticaefolium Id. t. 4. and t. 9. f. 17. 18. An emeticof the same country.SAUVAGESIE^E.SAUVAGESIA.Calyx deeply 5-parted, permanent, closing over the fruit.Corolla in 3 sets ; the outer petals 5, ovate or oblong, spreading,deciduous, the intermediate ones filiform, variable in number,the interior 5 opposite the outer, erect, converging into a tube,much smaller. Stamens 5, enclosed within the interior petals,with which they alternate ; filaments very short. Style subulate;stigma simple, inconspicuous. Capsule enclosed in thepermanent floral organs, more or less deeply 3-valved, manyseeded.Seeds scrobiculate. Small under shrubs or herbaceousplants. Leaves simple, with simply pinnated veins.ciliated.Stipules213. S. erecta Linn. sp. pi. 294. Jacq. amer. 77. t. 51. f. 3.Aug. de St. H. plant, rem. Bres. 63. t. 3. a. S. erecta, Adima,nutans, peruviana, geminiflora of authors Tropical parts of99 H V