Practical observations on the remedial properties of Simaba cedron, and on its employment as a substitute for quinine / by Samuel S. Purple.

  • Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Practical observations on the remedial properties of Simaba cedron, and on its employment as a substitute for quinine / by Samuel S. Purple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1854.] clothed with minute ferruginous, velvety down, chiefly towards the apices ; branches short, solitary or clustered; ■pedicels bracteolated. Calyx mi- nute, cup-shaped, obscurely 5-toothed feruginous-downy. Corolla of five, linear, obtuse or retuse, spreading petals, pale brown and downy exter- nally. Stamens ten, short, arising from the back of as many staminiferous scales, which are erect, and approximate in a tube. Anthers oblong, introrse. Ovaries five, seated upon a columnar gynophore, downy. Styles five, united into one, above the base, and exceeding the stamens in length. Ovoles one in each ovary. Fruit, very large, solitary (by abortion); drupe of an oval form, oblique at the top, and having a scar below the summit, indicating the former site of the style. The soft portion of the fruit seems, in the preserved state, not to have been very soft and fleshy, it is lined with a horny endocarp. Seed large, solitary, suspended, its integument membranaceous, with a conspicuous chalaza. Albumen, none. Embryo, conform with the sides. Cotyledons very large, fleshy, white when fresh. Simaba Cedron. a, branch of a raceme; b, a loaf; c, scale, bearing a stamen; d, ovaries, with the gyno- phore; e, transverse soction through tho five ovaries, magnified; /, fruit cut round trans- versely. so as to exhibit the transverso seod ; g, the dotted lino shows tho outline or tho entire fruit; h, transverse section of the seed; j, a cotyledon, in tho state which it is exported :—nai. size. N. S. VOL. XIII., NO. II. H