Flora Medica

TICOREA.Calyx small, 5-toothed. Corolla monopetalous, funnelshaped;tube long; limb 5-cleft, equal or unequal. Stamens5-8, of which 2-6 are often sterile; filaments monadelphous,united to the tube ;anthers often partly combined, somewhatexserted. Disk cup-shaped, surrounding the ovary;style 1 ;stigma 5-lobed. Ovary 5-lobed, 5-celled with 2 ovules in each cell.434. T. jasminiflora Aug. de St. Hil. pi ran. i. 141. t. 14. D.Woods of Rio Janeiro, especially near the town of Tagoahy,and in the province of Minas Geraes.A shrub 7-8 feet high. Leaves ternate, stalked ; leaflets 1-6 incheslong, lanceolate, tapering to the base, acuminate, obtuse, sometimesemarginate, smooth, deep-green, with pellucid dots. Panicles 3-6inches long, terminal or axillary, with each branch bearing about 6flowers. Calyx rather downy. Corolla white, downy, glandular, withpellucid dots. A decoction of the leaves drunk by the Brazilians asa cure for frambresia.435. T. febrifuga Aug. de St. H. 1. c, 142. Province ofMinas Geraes.Very like the last from which it differs in its stem being generallyarborescent, its panicles contracted, its flowers not more than half thesize, the bracts more numerous and somewhat foliaceous, and the stylemore protruded. Bark intensely bitter, astringent, febrifugal.BAROSMA.Calyx 5-cleft or parted, dotted. Disk lining the bottom ofthe calyx, generally with a short scarcely prominent rim. Petals5, with short claws. Filaments 10; the 5 opposite the petalssterile, petaloid, sessile, ciliated, obscurely glandular at theapex the other 5 ; longer, smooth or hispid, subulate, with theanthers usually furnished with a minute gland at the apex.Style as long as the petals. Stigma minute, 5-lobed. Ovariesauriculate at the apex, usually glandular and tuberculated.Fruit composed of 5 cocci covered with glandular dots at theback.436. B. crenulata Willd. mum. suppl. 12. Sot. Mag.t. 3413. Diosma crenulata Linn, amcen. ac. iv. 308. D. crenataLinn. sp. pi. 287. D. serratifolia Burchell and others.Bucco crenata R. and S. v. 414. D. odorata DC.prodr.i.'ll^.D. latifolia Lodd. Bot. cab. t. 290. Cape of Good Hope.An upright shrub, between 2 and 3 feet in height, with twiggybranches of a brownish purple tinge. Leaves decussate, spreading,about an inch long, oval-lanceolate, on very short petioles, very obtuse,delicately and minutely crenated, quite glabrous, rigid, darkish green,and quite smooth above, with a few very obscure oblique nerves, beneathpaler, dotted with glands which are scarcely pellucid, while at every