Quina Morada.

Related entry: China Morada

Quina Morada.—This drug, growing in Bolivia and the Argentine Republic, and there credited with the therapeutic values of cinchona is produced by Pogonopus Tubulosus (Rich.) K. Sch. (Fam. Rubiaceae). It has been studied by Arata and Canzoneri, who find in it a blue fluorescent substance, moradin, and an alkaloid, moradeine. (P. J., April, 1890.)

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