Flora Medica

BRUCEA.disk. Anthers oval, large, deep purple. Ovaries 4, 1 -celled, with 1ovule in each cell attached to the upper and inner side. Stylessingle, short, recurved, 1 to each ovary. Stigmas simple. Drupes 4,when all come to maturity, size of a small grain of black pepper,smooth, dark purple, 1 -celled. Roxburgh expected the bark of thisto be fully equal in efficacy to that of Br. antidysenterica. Dr. Horsfieldthinks it would be as serviceable a tonic as Quassia.450. B. antidysenterica Mill, icfasc.t. 25. D C. prodr.ii. 88.B. ferruginea L'Herit. stirp.1. 10. Wooginoos Bruce s travels,vol. v. p. 69. with a figure. In Abyssinia.Leaflets entire, covered with ferruginous hair on the nerves. Racemessimple, spike-shaped. Considered in Abyssinia a most valuableremedy in dysentery and severe cases of diarrhoea, but not known inEurope. It has been supposed that a poisonous bark called FalseAngostura, was yielded by this plant but it now turns out that it is;nothing but the bark of the Nux vomica (Strychnos). Guibourt, ed. 3,i. 4. All the statements therefore that have been made concerningthe danger of Brucea bark and Brucine, belong to Strychnos, and havenothing to do with Brucea itself.219