Flora Medica

NYCTAGINACE.E.Stem striated, purplish, with very few hairs. Leaves very distant,about an inch long, somewhat orbicular, cordate, rounded at the point,obscurely repand, ciliated, pale on the under side, not dotted, butcovered with short thick close-pressed hairs ; petioles smooth. Pedunclesbranched upwards. Panicle ascending, very lax, leafless. Flowerscapitate. According to Aublet the root is emetic, and called Ipecaquanain Guiana. Schomburgk states that it is astringent, and used inthe form of decoction in dysentery.757. B. tuberosa Lam. A illustr. i. p. ] 0. native of Persia,is reported to act both as a cathartic and emetic.758. Pisonia fragrans is reported to be an active emetic ; andin a memoir read before the Royal Academy of Medicine inParis, it is said to be used as such in Cuba. Burnetts Outlines*No. 1819. But what is Pisonia fragrans ?366