TYLOPHORA

(Lat.), n. f. Til(tu6l)-o2f'o2r-a3. From TvAos, a callus, and <opu<. to bear. Fr., tylophore. A genus of the Asclepiadeae. The Tylophortae are a section of the Hoyece,. [a, 35.] T. asthmatic a. Fr., ipecacuanha d'lnde, ipeca dupays (ou sauvage). Country (or East Indian) ipecacuanha; a shrub of southern Asia and the adjacent islands. The root, radix tylophorce, is emetic in large, and cathartic in small, repeated doses, and is used like ipecacuanha in dysentery, and also in moist asthma. The leaves, folia tylophorce, official in the Bengal Ph. of 1844 and the Ph. of India of 1868, are also used in dysentery and as a diaphoretic, emetic, and expectorant, [a, 35.] [s. 664]