TRADESCANTIA DIURETICA (MART.) TRAD. TRADESCANTIA COMMELINA (WELL.) PORTUG.: TRAPOERAVA THIs herbaceous plant is pretty common in Brazil. Its ramose and ...

TO THE BRAZILIAN PEOPLE Though the precious metals hidden in the Brazilian soil, may be never so abundant; though the splendor of its precious stones, may be ...

SPIGGURUS MARTINI (NOBIS) SPIG. SPIGGURUS SPINOSA (FR. CUV.) HISTRIX SUBSPINOSUS. THE PORCUPINE This little animal is common in Brazil where it lives on trees ...

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM GROTANS SOL. T. G.-DISEASED POTATO A description of the potato in a work destined for European pharmaceutists and physicians would be ...

SOLANUM OLERACEUM (VELLOZ.) SOL. OL. - PORTUG.: GYQUIRIOBA, JUQUERIOBA. This is an herbaceous plant with a creeping and somewhat ligneous, cylindrical stem, ...

SOLANUM ARREBENTA (VELL.) SOL. AR. PORTUG.: ARREBENTA CAVALLOS THIs bush grows spontaneously in the provinces of Rio Janeiro, along roads and in cultivated ...

SEDINHA SEDINHA HERBACEOUS plant, with a slender, round and pubescent stem; the leaves are opposite, lanceolate and very sharp; their upper surface is hairy ...

RESINA ITU ITU. This rosin which comes to us from the province of St. Paul, is used empirically for hernia. First day. -1. Stupefying pain in the head, worse ...

PLUMBAGO LITTORALIS (NOBIS) P. LIT. PICAO Di PRAIA This is a creeper, inhabiting the shores in the bay of Rio Janeiro. Its stem is herbaceous, rounded, ...

PETIVERIA TETRANDRA (GOM.) PET. MAPPA GRAVEOLENS (WELL.) PIPI. ERVA DE PIPI. This bush is common in the fields around Rio-Janeiro, where it blossoms the whole ...

PEDICULUS CAPITIS (COMMON LOUSE) It is scarcely necessary to give a description of this species which is sufficiently known; we shall content ourselves with ...

PAULLINIA PINNATA PAUL. PAULLINIA TIMBO (VELL). -PORTUG.: GUARATIMBO, TIMBO-SIPO, CURURU-APÉ. This beautiful liana is commonly found in the woods of Brazil; ...