Flora Medica

ROSACEJE.serrated, veiny leaflets ;the terminal one deeply 3-lobed ;intermediateones very small all j .white and densely downy beneath. Stipulesrounded, deeply toothed. Flowers extremely numerous, cream-coloured,with a sweet but oppressive hawthorn-like scent, in dense, compoundcymose panicles. Calyx reflexed. Petals roundish. Stamens numerous.Carpels 6 or 8, sometimes more, spirally contorted, with shortstyles, and large capitate stigmas. Smith. Taste of the herbage andscent of the flowers aromatic ;a fragrant water, forming an agreeablearomatic beverage, may be distilled from the flowers.468. S. Filipendula Linn. sp. pi. 702. Eng. Bot. t. 284-.Fl. Dan. t. 635. Smith Eng. Fl ii. 368. DC. prodr.ii. 54-6.Common in pastures in elevated situations.Root woody, with many hard elliptical knobs, through which thefibres are continued ;these are black externally, white and farinaceouswithin. Stem a foot or more in height, round, smooth, leafy principallyin the lower part ; panicled in a cymose manner at the summit.Leaves chiefly radical, spreading or depressed, smooth, dark green,elegantly pinnate, with oblong, narrow, opposite or alternate leaflets,and as many, or more, small intermediate ones all ; deeply, sharply,and unequally cut. Stipules linear, acute, entire, united laterally tothe base of each radical footstalk, the stem leaves being furnished witha pair of rounded cut lobes in their stead. Panicle forked, cymose.Flowers on short partial stalks, without bracteas, erect, cream-coloured,tinged externally with red. Petals obovate. Carpels 10 or more,hairy, with short recurved styles, and large blunt stigmas. Smith.Both, this and the last are accounted tonics on account of their bitterastringent qualities.BRAYERA.Calyx campanulate limb ; 10-parted, membranous; half thesegments with pinnate veins and thrice as large as the other 5with 3 veins each. Petals minute, subulate, opposite the largersegments of the calyx. Stamens 12-20, short, inserted into thethroat of the calyx. Disk conical, projecting from the throat ofthe calyx and pierced at the apex to allow the styles to passthrough. Ovaries 2, stipitate, each with 1suspended ovule ;stigmas dilated, slightly lacerated.469. B. anthelmintica Kunlh in Brayers dissert, p.DC. 6.prodr.ii. 588. Abyssinia, where it is called Cabotz.A tree. Peduncles branched, taper, softly hairy, zigzag, bracteate jbranches alternate. Bracts solitary entire. Down simple. Flowersin fours, pedicellate, surrounded by an involucre of 4 bracts. Bractsroundish oblong, obtuse, concave, thin and membranous. Kunth.Reported to be a most powerful anthelmintic. Small packets of thedried flowers are sold by the Abyssinians and ; according to M. Brayerare an effectual remedy for taenia when all other medicines have failed.230