Pilocarpus
from pilos, a cap, and karpos, a fruit; referring to the shape of the berries). ORD. Rutaceae. A genus comprising about five species of stove shrubs, natives of tropical America and the West Indies. Flowers green or purple, gland-dotted; calyx short, almost entire, or four or five-toothed; petals four or five, triangular; racemes or spikes simple, terminal or axillary. Leaves petiolate, opposite or alternate, or ternately whorled, one to three-foliolate or impari-pinnate, coriaceous or membranous, entire, pellucid-dotted. For culture, see Chloroxylon.
P. pennatifolius (feather-leaved). fl. purple, in crowded racemes, 18in. long; petals thick, lanceolate. l. alternate, impari-pinnate; leaflets two or three-jugate, elliptic or oblanceolate, the margins obsoletely revolute, pellucid-dotted. h. 6ft. Brazil. (B. M. Pl. 48; L. J. F. iii. 263.) This is one of the plants which furnishes the Jaborandi of commerce, an energetic diaphoretic and sialogogue.
