Calumba, Jateorhiza palmata. Native of southern Africa, source of bitter tonic used for anorexia nervosa. Palmated cocculus or calumba plant, Cocculus palmatus. Handcolored lithograph from a botanical illustration by George Spratt from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's Medical Botany, London, 1832.

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