Flora Medica

PINCKNEYA.PINCKNEYA.Calyx 5-parted, the fifth lobe expanded into a coloured leaf.Corolla with a cylindrical tube, and a 5-cleft limb, the lobes ofwhich are recurved and spreading. Stamens inserted at thebase of the tube, exserted ;anthers oblong. Capsule roundish,compressed, 2-celled, dehiscing through the cells. Seeds surroundedby a wing, which is emarginate at the base.863. P. pubens bor.Mich.fi. amer i. 103. t. 13. Elliottsketch, i. 268. DC. prodr. iv. 366. C. caroliniana Poir. diet.vi. 40. Wet boggy soils in South Carolina and Florida, alongthe sea coast.A large shrub, 15-20 feet high; young branches downy. Leaveslanceolate, slightly acuminate, hairy, but shining above, downy beneath;petioles about an inch long, downy. Panicles terminal and axillary,composed of 5 flowered fasicles. The large leaf of the calyx veiny,and rose-coloured ;sometimes 2 lobes are enlarged. Corolla downy,the tube dull green, the border purple, with obtuse segments. Barkfebrifugal, and used in Carolina as a substitute for Cinchona.Tribe II.GARDENIE.E.Fruit baccate, 2-celled, or by abortion I -celled. Cells manyseeded.Albumen fleshy.Seeds not winged. Trees or shrubs.Leaves opposite. Stipules between the petioles. DC.RANDIA.Limb of calyx 5-lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, with a shorttube, and a 5-parted limb. Anthers inclosed, sessile, within thethroat. Stigmas 2 thick. Berry nearly dry, crowned by thecalyx, corticated, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds fixed to thecentral placenta, imbedded in pulp, and imbricated downwards.Spiny shrubs, with conspicuous flowers.864. R. dumetorum Lam. ill. t. 156. f. 4. DC.prodr.iv.385.Canthium coronatumZam. diet. i. 602. Gardenia dumetorumRetz. obs. ii. 14. Roxb. corom. t. 136. Gardenia spinosaLinn,suppl. 164. Randia spinosa Blume bydr. 981. Posoqueria dumetorumRoxb. fl.ind. i. 714. Common on the coast of Coromandel.A thorny branching shrub or small tree. Leaves oval, rather blunt*cuneate at the base, smooth. Flowers very sweet-scented, sessile,solitary, mostly terminal. Calyx with oblong lobes rather shorter thanthe villous corolla. Fruit smooth, yellow, resembling a small crabapple,firm, and fleshy. Seeds oval, numerous, lying in mucus. Thefruit when bruised and thrown into water intoxicates, or even kills fish,which are not considered less wholesome in consequence. In the form433 F F