Jump to Navigation    The bark of the root of Triosteum
perfoliatum, Linné. Nat. Ord.—Caprifoliaceae. COMMON NAMES:
Fever-wort, Wild ipecac, Bastard ipecac, Horse-gentian, Wild
coffee, Dr. Tinker's weed.  Botanical Source.—This plant is
indigenous, with a perennial, thick, and fleshy root, subdivided
into numerous horizontal branches. The stems are several from
same root, simple, stout, erect, round, hollow, soft, pubescent,
and from 2 to 4 feet high. The leaves are opposite, oval-
acuminate, mostly connate, entire, abruptly contracted at base,
nearly smooth above, pubescent beneath, prominently veined, 6
inches long by 3 broad; in some plants the upper leaves are
almost amplexicaul. Flowers dull-purple, axillary, sessile,
mostly in clusters of 3 or 5, in the form of whorls, rarely
solitary. Calyx-tube ovoid; limb 5-parted; segments linear-
lanceolate, leaf-like, and persistent, having a solitary bract;
corolla tubular, gibbous at the base, somewhat equally 5-lobed,
and scarcely longer than the calyx. Stamens 5