ANGOSTURA BARK.

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• Botany. Gen. Char.—C alyx short, five-toothed. Petals five, unitedl ° a salver-shaped corolla, or closely approximating; tube short, pen-gonal; lobes spreading, acute. Stamens four to seven, hypogynous,y ,rie «iiat adherent to the petals, unequal, sometimes all fertile, commonly,, 0 antheriferous, two to five shorter, sterile. Nectary cupuliform.

Vies five, afterwards combined into one, and forming a four- or five-j>^°oved stigma. Carpella five, or by abortion fewer, containing two''des, obtuse, cocculifonn, sessile, with a separable endocarp. Seedslta i'y by abortion; cotyledons large, corrugated, biauriculate.—Smoothu bs. Leaves alternate, simple, or plurifoliate ; leaflets oblong, acumi-Peduncles axillary, many flowered (D. C.)

—Humboldt and Bonpland (PI . jEquinoct. ii. 59, t. 57) stateGalipea Cusparia , Dec. yields Angostura bark; whereas Dr.

^.j^'aock (Trans. Med. Bot. Soc. 1829, p. 16) asserts that it is a specieslllal both :

ii. lc h Be calls Galipea officinalis. But it appears to me not improbable

— species may yield a febrifuge bark.

• Galipe'a Cuspa'ria, Decand. L. Bouplandia trifoliata, Willd. D.’isparia febriluga, Humb. and Bonvl. — Leaves trifoliate. Racemes

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Bonpl. — Leaves trifoliate.

(I)"" 2 "’ almost terminal. Calyx five-toothed. Sterile stamens threef ee ^ C0n ^-)—A majestic forest tree, sixty or eighty feet high. Leaves twoSe .. 0ll g> gratefully fragrant; petioles one foot long, or nearly so ; leaflets0 f j unequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Flowers white, with fasciclespj airs seated on glandular bodies on the outside. Stam.ens monadel-(Kuntli); fertile ones, two; sterile ones,

three,

according

to

,o ern ; n -. - \ . 7 — ;— 7 - 7 —^ — o

mer—four, according to Kunth ; anthers with two short appendages.

4 ) f nias five. Seed solitary.—Forests of tropical America . Yieldsy°stura baric (Humboldt and Bonpland ).stIV Hai.ipe' a officina'lis, Hancock, E.—Leaves trifoliate. Racemes f lVe axillary, tenninal. Stamens two. Nectaries (sterile stamens ?)

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^ (Hancock). —A tree, usually twelve or fifteen feet high, never exceed-", ei 'ty foot. Leaves, when fresh, having the odour of tobacco ; leaf-

v er v °*? lon g> pointed at

^«L ,0rl . stalk « i petiole

a I>pi

l^th extremities, from six to ten inches long, ona - - long as the leaflets. Flowers white, hairy.

ens distinct; fertile ones, two ; sterile ones, five ; anthers without

H; i" la ges. Stigma simple, capitate. Seeds two in each capsule ; onetk c \ abortive. Neighbourhood of the Orinoko (Carony, Alta Gracia,, fields Angostura or Carony bark (Hancock).cj( S s p R n*TioN.—Angostura or Cusparia bark (cortex angosturee sen>ii 0s t imported directly or indirectly from South America . “ The

- vhatIhave seen,” says Mr. A. 15. Braude, “ has been put intoVe r y 1,1 j-he West Indies ; but where the original package remains it isserious, and formed carefully of the large leaves of a species of palm,flat .j- °d by a kind of net-work made of flexible sticks.” It occurs in*• *j es and quills, of various sizes, the longest pieces being from six tospono. Ies hi length, covered with a yellowisli-grey or greyish-white^ r °'Vrr ?l J hlermis, easily scraped off by the nail. The internal surface is^Paral l 1101 fluho smootli, somewhat fibrous or splintery, easilys tr 0tl , e into laminas; the fracture is short and resinous; the odourSli Shtly ut Peculiar, and somewhat animal; the taste bitter, aromatic, and

ac ci(fo S T ITlTTl0N -—I have already (see p. 906-7-10) noticed the seriouss which have resulted in consequence of the bark of the nux-