. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. BUBIALMS. 517 ular (actinomorphic); leaves with stipules. A large order of over 4000 species, the greater part of which inhabit tropical countries. It is divided into twenty-five tribes, many of which differ so greatly from each other that they have been regarded as orders by some botanists. The most common representatives of this order in the United States are the species of Galium (Bedstraw or Cleavers), Mitchella (Partridge Berry), and Moustonia (Bluets). OephalantAus occidentalis, the Button Bush of the Eastern United States, is a tall shrub
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. BUBIALMS. 517 ular (actinomorphic); leaves with stipules. A large order of over 4000 species, the greater part of which inhabit tropical countries. It is divided into twenty-five tribes, many of which differ so greatly from each other that they have been regarded as orders by some botanists. The most common representatives of this order in the United States are the species of Galium (Bedstraw or Cleavers), Mitchella (Partridge Berry), and Moustonia (Bluets). OephalantAus occidentalis, the Button Bush of the Eastern United States, is a tall shrub bearing glossy green leaves and spherical heads of white, sweet-scented flowers. It deserves to be ranked among our ornamental shrubs. Pinekneya puhens, a small tree of the Southeastern United States, is known as Georgia Bark, or Fever Tree, on account of the medicinal qualities of its bark. Cinchona, of several species. This South American genus contains thirty or more species of trees ; several of these, as C. officinalis, O. cali- Piss. 451-5.—Illustrations of Ooffba Ababioa. All Wia. 451. Fio. 452. Fig. 453. Fio. 454. PiQ. 455. Pig. 451.—Berry. Pig. 452.—Seed ; ventral face. Fig. 453.—Seed ; dorsal face. Fig. 454.—Transverse section of seed. Fig. 455.—Dorsal face of seed, cut away to show embryo. saya, G. succvrubra, etc., all natives of the Andean regions of Peru, Bolivia, and New Granada, furnish the drug known as Peruvian Bark. This bark contains two important alkaloids, viz. -. Cinchonia (Cjo H24 Na 0), and Quinia (C20 '3.^ Nj O2 + 3 Ha 0) ; the latter as a sulphate is the exceedingly valuable medicine, Quinia Sulphate, or Quinine. Cinchona trees are now cultivated in India, Java, Mauritius, aud Jamaica. Cephaelis Ipecacuanha, a semi-shrubby plant of Brazil, supplies from its roots the well-known emetic Ipecacuanha. Coffea Arabica, the Coffee Tree, » native of Abyssinia, is a small- sized evergreen tree, bearing clusters of white flowers in the a
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