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The root is the part used in medicine, it is knotty, contorted, and annulated, and of a grayish-brown color, and its emetic properties are due to a chemical principle called emetin.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
DESCRIPTION.—Reddish ferruginous brown, long hair, well grizzled, more red on the head and outer part Of limbs; hairs annulated dark and white, with reddish tips; muzzle long and flesh-coloured; feet black; tip of tail black.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
DESCRIPTION.—Form supple and elegant, with graceful curves; the neck held up proudly; the head adorned with long, spiral, and closely annulated horns, close at the base, but diverging at the tips in a V form.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
Its color is a dusky brown, mixed with red; the tail is short; the horns, which are about sixteen inches long, are black, distinctly annulated almost to the top, and have three curves.
From Book about Animals by Rufus Merrill
His face was yellow, parchment-like, annulated with wrinkles, withered with age; his long beard floated like a white cloud on the jewelled stars that constellated the robe of netted gold across his breast.
From Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons