A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . tanthe , Aliquel.(Bentley and Trimens Medicinal Plants, vol. iv. plate 242;) Habitat.—It is found in a wild or cultivated state over agreat range in tropical America, growing in Peru, Bolivia,Columbia, Brazil, Venezuela, and elsewhere. Official Part and Natne.—Matice Folia :—the driedleaves. Maticse Folia. Matieo Leaves. Commerce.—Matieo leaves appear to reach this countrychiefly by way of Panama, but the plant from which t
A text-book of organic materia medica : comprising a description of the vegetable and animal drugs of the British pharmacopoeia with other non-official medicines . tanthe , Aliquel.(Bentley and Trimens Medicinal Plants, vol. iv. plate 242;) Habitat.—It is found in a wild or cultivated state over agreat range in tropical America, growing in Peru, Bolivia,Columbia, Brazil, Venezuela, and elsewhere. Official Part and Natne.—Matice Folia :—the driedleaves. Maticse Folia. Matieo Leaves. Commerce.—Matieo leaves appear to reach this countrychiefly by way of Panama, but the plant from which theyare obtained has, as already noticed, a wide range overtropical America. General Characters.—Matieo leaves, as commonly seenin commerce, are more or less broken, folded, and com-pressed into a brittle mass, and have mixed with them avariable proportion of jointed stems, flowers, and fruits, thewhole being greenish-yellow in colour. The leaves, whenentire, are verj shortly petiolate, from about four to six, X 3o6 Maticcs Folia. [MonocJilamydea. Fig. 42—Portion of thestem and under sur-face of a leaf of theMatico plant i^Pipcrang iisti/oUtivt).. ^-~%>v or even eight inches long;oblong-lanceolate {fig. 42),tapering towards the apex,cordate and unequal at thebase, entire or minutelycrenulate at the margins,greenish-yellow, reticulatedwith sunken veins and tes-sellated above, the veinsprominent beneath {fig. 42),and the depressions formedby them densely covered withhairs. They have an aromaticbitterish taste; and a plea-sant feebly-aromatic odour. Substitutions.—The leavesof other plants have been im-ported into this country as theofificial matico, but the onlyspurious matico that has beenspecially described is thatfirst noticed by the author in1863, which is derived fromPiperadu?icuin, Linn.; sincewhich time it has been some-what frequently found in theLondon market. It may bereadily distinguished fromthe ofificial kind by being ina less compressed state, bythe
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