Medical and economical botany : [Forming the third part of the 'The elements of botany'.].

  • John Lindley
Date:
1849
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    HU'ERALS. i'i:i'ii:ii\voiiTS. Habitat. Java. Qmliti/. Acrid, ai-omatic, stomachic, stimulant of the urinogenital a])i)ai'atiis, aphro- disiac, diuretic. Uses. Gonorrhaia, gleet, leucorrhoea ; dyspepsia. 2. C. canina Miquel.—(Cubebs.) Fig. 194. Leaves membranous, hairy ; fruit round- ish-ovate, almost longer than their stalks. Habitat. Java. Qiudily and Uses. According to Blume, this fur- nishes part of the Cubebs of the shops. Artanthe. Miquel. Woody. Spikes solitary, opposite the leaves. Floioers 0. Style 0. Bracts peltate or cucullate. 1. A. clongata Miquel. Piper angustifo- lium Ruiz and Pavou. — (Matico Plant.) Pig. 195. Leaves short-stalked, harsh, oblong-lanceo- late, acuminate, tessellated ^n the upper side, because of the sunken veins. Habitat. Peru. Quality. Powerful styptic. Uses. Diseases of. genital organs and rectum ; hffimoiThages; also as Cubebs. Macropiper. Miquel. Woody. Spikes clustered, axillary. Flowers dioecious. 1. M. ?ne%s<«atm Miquel. Piper methys- itcttm.—(Kawa, or Ava Plant.) Leaves membranous, equal-sided, broadly ovate, roundish, deeply cordate, witli 9-10 nerves. Habitat. Society Islands. Quality. Stimulating narcotic, sudorific, aro- matic. Use.i. Chronic rheumatism ; venereal diseases. Fig. 105.—Leaf of Artanthe elongata.