[127] Neues Jahrb. f. Pharm. xxxi. (1869) 257; Pharm. Journ. xi. (1870) 192.
[128] “Presentamente (Abutua) é reputada diaphoretica, diuretica e emenagoga, e usada interiormente na dóse de duas a quatro oitavas para uma libra de infusão ou cozimento, nas febres intermittentes, hydropisias, e suspensão de lochios.”—Langgaard, Diccionario de Medicina domestica e popular, Rio de Janeiro, i. (1865) 17.
[129] Figured, together with the plant, in Bentley and Trimen, Medic. Plants, part 9 (1876).
[130] It is therefore entirely different to the wood figured as that of C. Pareira by Eichler in Martius’ Flor. Bras. xiii. pars. i. tab. 50. fig. 7.
[131] 45 packages containing about 20 cwt. were offered for sale by Messrs. Lewis and Peat, drug-brokers, 11 Sept. 1873, but there had been earlier importations.
[132] From these knots, which are at regular intervals, and sometimes very protuberant, it would appear that the panicles of flower arise year after year.
[133] Pharm. Journ. vi. (1876) 702.
[134] Histoire des Drogues d’origine végétale, i. (Paris, 1878) 72.
[135] I have compared these leaves with Aublet’s own specimen in the British Museum.—D. H.
[136] Hist. des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise, i. (1775) 618. tab. 250.