[748] Supplement to the Pharmacopœia of India, Madras, 1869. 16.—The author has kindly sent us specimens of the root. We are also indebted for authentic samples to Mr. Thwaites of the Royal Botanical Garden, Ceylon, and to Mr. Prestoe of the Botanical Garden, Trinidad. The last named gentleman remarks—“I do not find any liquorice property in the root, even fresh, but it is very strong in the green leaves.”
[749] These names and the following are also applied to the entire pods, or even to the plant.
[750] Fig. in Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, part 13 (1876).
[751] Hist. Plant. i. 887.
[752] Tom. viii. (1700) tab. 35, sub nom. Nāi Corana.
[753] Flückiger, Documente zur Geschichte der Pharmacie, Halle, 1876. 84.
[754] On the efficacy of Stizolobium or Cowhage, Lond. 2nd ed. 1784.
[755] Hist. Nat. Brasil. 18.
[756] The name of the genus, from ϕύσα, a bladder, was formed under the notion that this appendage is hollow, which is not the fact.—Mucuna cylindrosperma Welwitsch, from Angola, is probably the same plant. See Holmes, Pharm. J. ix. (1879) 913.
[757] Edinb. New Phil. J. xl. (1846) 313.