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Botanical name: 
Colubrina elliptica

Colubrina.—Mabee bark, yielded by the Ceanothus reclinatus L'Herit. (Colubrina reclinata, Brongn.) (Fam. Rhamnaceae) of South America, has been analyzed by Elborne and Wilson, who find in it a glucoside. It is used in the West Indies as a stomachic. (See P. J., April 11, 1885.)


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.

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