Pharmacographia / A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India

by Friedrich A. Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury

[628] From amargoso, bitter.

[629] C. De Candolle, in Monogr. Phanerogamar. i. (1878) 459.

[630] It is mentioned in Chinese writings dating long prior to the Christian era.—Bretschneider, Chinese Botanical Works, 1870. 12.

[631] Colloquios dos Simples, &c., Goa, 1563 Colloq. xl. p. 153.

[632] Tractado de las Drogas y Medicinas de las Indias Orientales, Burgos, 1578, cap. 43.

[633] Waring, in Pharmacopœia of India, 1868. 443.

[634] We are indebted for it to Mr. Broughton of Ootacamund.

[635] Indian Annals of Medical Science, Calcutta, iv. (1857) 104.

[636] Madras Monthly Journ. Med. Science, quoted in Pharm. Journ. June 14, 1873, 992.

[637] From Sómida, the Teluga name of the tree; Róhan is its name in Hindustani.—Fig. in Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, part 18 (1877).—See also C. De Candolle, in Monogr. Phanerogamar. i. (1878) 722.