The pharmacological action of South African boxwood ( Gonioma kamassi )

Abstract

The boxwood products with which the following experiments were performed were prepared from the wood of Gonioma kamassi exported from Knysna and belonging to the N.O. Apocynaceae. The wood was carefully identified and sent in sealed parcel to Mr. E. F. Harrison, who extracted an alkaloid. The certain identity of the wood is of some importance, as the preparations which were used in my experiments cannot be called into question and as there has been some confusion in the past between Gonioma kamassi (South African box), Buxus macowani (East London boxwood) and Sarcocephalus diderrichii (West African boxwood)