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

by Friedrich A. Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury

[2091] De Candolle’s Prodromus, xv. part 2. (1862) 518; beautifully figured in Hayne, Arzneigewächse, xiv. (1843) plate 2.

[2092] For more particulars see Oberlin and Schlagdenhauffen, Journ. de Pharm. 28 (1878) 248.

[2093] Pharm. Journ. xiv. (1855) 319.

[2094] Wittstein’s Vierteljahresschrift für prakt. Pharm. xviii. (1869) 161.

[2095] Fig. in Bentley and Trimen’s Medic. Plants, part 1 (1875).

[2096] Tractado, etc., Burgos, 1578. c. 48.—After speaking of the virtues of the seeds, he adds—“tambien las buenas mugeres de aquellas partes, amigas de sus maridos, les dă hasta quatro destos por la boca, para embiar a los pobretos al otro mundo”!

[2097] Hortus Malabaricus, ii. tab. 33.

[2098] Herbarium Amboinense, iv. tab. 42.

[2099] Ainslie, Mat. Med. of Hindoostan, 1813. 292.

[2100] The oil was very expensive. I find by the books of Messrs. Allen and Hanburys, that the seeds cost in 1824, 10s., and in 1827, 18s. per lb. The oil was purchased in 1826 by the same house at 8s. to 10s. per ounce.—D. H.