Flora medica, a botanical account of plants used in medicineLongman, 1838 - 80 pages |
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1-seeded 2-celled 3-lobed 5-cleft 5-parted 5-toothed acrid acuminate acute anthers apex aromatic astringent axillary baccate bark base Berry bitter bracts branches Calyx campanulate Capsule Carpels cells Cinchona colour compressed concave cordate coriaceous Corolla cylindrical deciduous decoction disk diuretic downy Drupe emetic entire erect Europe feet high filaments filiform fleshy Flowers Fruit glands globose green hairy herbaceous imbricated inches long India Involucre Jacq lanceolate leaflets leafy Leaves alternate Legume limb linear Linn lobes margin membranous nearly numerous oblong obovate obtuse oval Ovary ovate ovules pairs pale Panicles pedicels Peduncles Petals petioles pinnated plant prodr purple Racemes Rheede Root round roundish Roxb Seeds segments Sepals serrated sessile shining short shorter shrub side slender slightly Smith Eng smooth solitary species Spikes spreading stalked Stamens Stem stigma stipules Style subulate syst tapering terminal ternate thick tree tube Umbels unequal upper villous Willd Woodv yellow
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Page 357 - ... five- or seven-nerved, smooth and shining above, very hoary underneath, sometimes acuminate, sometimes obtuse ; from three to nine inches long, and from two to six inches broad ; in young plants frequently peltate. Petioles shorter than the leaves, round, downy, umbellets or...
Page ii - Woodcuts, 18s. cloth. LINDLEY.-FLORA MEDICA; A Botanical Account of all the most important Plants used in Medicine, in different Parts of the World.
Page 198 - Receptacle usually broader than the ovary, marked round with 8 nectariferous pores, bearing the petals and stamens at the base. Carpels 4, partly combined by means of the central axis into one 4-lobed ovary : ovules 6-12 (or rarely 2 collateral), in each cell. Styles 4, distinct at the base, where they spring from the inner angle of the carpels above the common axis, united upwards into a single pistil, which is attenuated towards the apex. Stigma 4-furrowed not thicker than the style. Capsules 4,...
Page 107 - Female flower unknown. Berry about the size of a cherry, round, with a firm reddish-brown external coat, and sweet pulp...
Page 30 - No. 22. jl. bras. i. 18. — D. brasiliana DC. syst. i. 405. Delessert ic. it 71. — Forests of Brazil. (Cipo de Carijo, Cambaibinha, Cipo de Caboclo Brazil.') Stem twining ; twigs hairy. Leaves oblong, remotely and obsoletely serrated, rough and hairless above, shaggy beneath on the principal veins. Petioles very shaggy beneath. Peduncles and pedicels hairy. Petals 2-3. Carpels usually solitary. — Astringent. A decoction used in Brazil in swellings of the legs and testicles, very common complaints...
Page 467 - Style in the fertile flowers as in the genus, in the barren flowers wanting. Drupe globular, smooth, the size of a cherry, sitting in the enlarged calyx, when ripe, yellow, the pulp is almost transparent, very tough and viscid.
Page 278 - ... six inches long ; leaflets six to ten on each side, with an odd one, oblong, acuminate, spring-toothed, veiny and somewhat downy at the back. Juice milky, glutinous, becoming black by exposure to the air, staining the linen or the skin of the same color, only coming off with the skin itself, and not removable from linen by washing even if repeated for many years successively. It is supposed by the natives of Cuba, that it is death to sleep beneath its shade, especially for persons of a sanguine...
Page 62 - and its yellow-juiced root and wood yield the extract called ras, rasaut, rasot, or raswat, used as an external application in ophthalmia. It is likewise considered an extremely valuable febrifuge. It is prepared by digesting in water sliced pieces of the root, stem, and branches in an iron vessel, boiling for some time, straining, and then evaporating to a proper consistence. It is principally manufactured at Nepal and the Doon ; sold at 8 annas the seer.
Page 313 - Calyx like a corolla in texture, crimson all over; the tube externally hairy. Berries scarlet. Smith. — In Germany the bark of the stem and larger branches is removed in spring, folded in small bundles, and dried for medicinal use. In this country the bark of the root is employed. Its taste is at first sweetish, but afterwards highly acrid. All the parts are excessively acrid, and act as a local irritant poison.
Page 288 - Cherris is supposed to be obtained from Hemp. The best of all cordage is manufactured from the tough woody tissue of the stems. Hemp seed is nutritious and not narcotic; it has the very singular property of changing the plumage of bullfinches and goldfinches from red and yellow to black if they are fed on it for too long a time or in too large a quantity.