in botany, the name of a Brazilian plant, described by Marcgrave, Piso, and others; the root of which so much resembles the ipecacuanha in its virtues, that some have erroneously called it by the same name. It is an astringent and emetic as the ipecacuanha; but it possesses both these qualities in a much weaker degree, and is therefore necessarily given in a larger dose, a whole dram being the quantity commonly given at once. The Brazilians bruise the whole plant, and express the juice, which they take internally, and also apply it externally to wounds made by poisoned arrows and by the bites of serpents. Some have supposed the root of this plant to be the white ipecacuanha; but this is an error, that being little different from the grey.