13.07.2015 Views

Flora Medica

Flora Medica

Flora Medica

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

MENISPERMACE^E.sarmentose, widely spreading, reaching to the tops of trees; twigsdowny leafy. Leaves subcordate, acute, nerved, quite entire, veinyabove, and green, ash-coloured and downy underneath on; long thickrigid stalks. Fruit in axillary racemes ; pedicels and peduncles ashcoloured, villous. According to Aublet this is the plant that yieldsthe white Pareira brava which is imported into Europe as a diuretic.He that the Creoles and inhabitants of says Cayenne employ an infusionas a diet drink against obstructions of the liver, to which they are verysubject. The same author adds that red Pareira brava is procuredfrom a variety of which the shoots and leaves underneath are coveredwith a rufous down.374

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!