Flora Medica

Tube of calyx short, turbinate, with a permanent 5-cleft limb.Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped, hairy inside, with 5 ovate lobes.Stamens enclosed in the tube. Style filiform, surrounded at thebase by a cup stigma 2-lobed, shorter than the corolla. Capsulebroad, compressed, 2-lobed, crowned by the calyx. Seeds;numerous, small, hexagonal.867. O. Mungos Linn. sp. 213. Roxb.fl. ind. i. 701. DC.prodr. iv. 415. Mungo Kcempf. amcen. 573 and 577. Java,Ceylon, Sumatra.Stem suffruticose. Leaves stalked, oblong, entire, pointed, very thin,4-6 inches long; petioles short, downy; stipules slight, membranous.Corymbs terminal, many-flowered. Tube of the corolla short, withthe lobes oblong, and pointed. of Cupthe style 2-lipped, thick, fleshy.Filaments very short, inserted at the base of the tube. Capsule inverselyreniform, compressed, with 5 ribs proceeding from the lobes ofthe calyx. The parts are so intensely bitter that the plant is calledby the Malays, " "Earth gall ; according to Kaempfer the taste resemblesGentian, but is more penetrating and less unpleasant. It hasthe reputation of being a most powerful alexipharmic ; but this requiresconfirmation. OLDENLANDIA.CONDAMINEA.little longer than the calyx., a dilated throat, and a 5-partedlimb. Stamens inserted above the middle of the tube, or nearthe throat ;anthers oblong-linear, bifid at the base, length ofcorolla. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule turbinate, truncate, openingin the middle of the cells. Seeds numerous, very small, wedgeshaped.American shrubs, with 2 -parted, acuminate stipules^and terminal many-flowered corymbs.866. C. corymbosa DC. iv.prodr. 402 Macrocnemumcorymbosum Fl. ii.peruv. 48. 1. 189. HBK. iii. 399 Hillsand ravines of the Peruvian Andes; mountains of Huanuco ;near Maraquita and Santa Anna in New Granada.Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate, cordate, sessile, plaited, coriaceous.Corymbs large, brachiate, trichotomous. Corolla purple externally,with the throat and filaments naked. Teeth of the calyx broad, shortand blunt. Bark febrifugal. The Bark gatherers of Peru are said byRuiz and Pavon to use this plant for adulterating the samples of Cinchona.Its bark is only slightly bitter, and may be easily recognisedby its being white inside, rather bitter and viscid.OPHIORHIZA.Calyx with a globose tube. Limb 4-toothed, permanent, thelobes very distant in the fruit. Corolla short, with a 4-cleftlimb, and a villous or glabrous throat. Stamens a little exserted ;anthers ovate or orbicular. Stigma undivided or bifid. Capsulenearly globose, crowned by the small, distant lobes of the calyx,dehiscing at the vertex by a loculicidal chink. Seeds nume-435 F F 2