MATERIA INDICA

Q60 MA TERIA INDICA. PART II.
diffuse, obsoletely, four-sided, hairy branches'; leaves
obovate, cuneate, waved, and scabrous; .flowers verticelled,
two, three, or four in each axil; tube of
the corol. twice the length of the calyx; stamen$
and style erect. "" Roxburgh speaks of it under the
Telingoo name of madana-bunta-kada, and tells us, that
it is common in sandy places near the sea on the Coromandel
coast; it is the galiopsis Zeylanica of Burman
(Zeyl. 163. t. QO. f. 3.), and apparently the tardaul
of Rheede (Mal. ix. p.149. t.76.). Of the genus
there are five species natives of Jamaica, but none
of them are considered as medicinal.
CCXXXI.
ODALLAM (Malayalie). Clilit araUe, (Tam.)
Mango-like Cerbera.
CERBERA MANGHAS (Lin.).
CI. and Ord. Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord.
Contortre. Ostindischer Sclzellenbaum (Nom. Triv.
Willd.).
Oddllam, or, as Rheede has it, odollam (Mal. i. p.71.
t.39.), is the name giv£n on the Malabar coas(to a
milky tree, the seeds of the fruit of whicb are powerfillly
narcotic, resembling in their effect that- arjsing
froIll the datura. The fruit itself is not unlike
a mango both in colour and shape, but has
one side more concave than the other; the seeds,
which are two in number, are the size of large chesnuts.
Dr. Horsfield informs us, in his account of
.;; See Roxburgh's Flora Indica, p. 379. vol. i. ii.