Cayaponia. Cayaponia globosa.

Botanical name: 

Cayaponia. Cayaponia globosa Silva Manso.—This is a cucurbitaceous plant of Brazil, from which Gubler has extracted the alkaloid cayaponine, said to purge without griping. Dose, one grain (0.065 Gm.). (Rep. de Pharm., 1879, 193.)


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