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Flora Medica

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MAGNOLIACE.&.yellowish green, marked with an irregular indented crescent of brightorange on both sides towards the base. Stamens numerous, with longlinear anthers opening outwardly, and short filaments. Pistil a large,conical, acute body, its upper half covered with minute, blackish,recurved stigmas j its lower furrowed, being a mass of coalescing stylesand ovaries. Fruit a cone of imbricated seed vessels, which are woodyand solid, their upper portion formed by the long lanceolate style.Seeds 2, blackish, ovate, one or both often abortive. Bark verybitter and strongly aromatic, acting as a stimulating tonic and diaphoretic.Chiefly used in intermittents, and as a warm sudorific in chronicrheumatism.

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