Flora Medica

CINCHONACE^.rous, small, half immersed in a globose placenta. Small herbaceousor suffruticose plants, resembling chickweed. Pedunclesaxillary or terminal, 1-2- or many-flowered generally long and;slender.868. O. umbellata Linn. sp. pi. 174. Roxb. corom. i. t. 3.Burm.fi. ind. 37. Roxb.fi. ind. i. 421. iv.DC.prodr. 426.Java, Coromandel, Mexico.Root long, orange-coloured. Stem diffuse, 4-cornered, nearly smooth.Leaves narrow, linear, acute, recurved at the edge, roughish above,paler beneath, in threes or fours. Stipules ciliated with bristles. Pedunclesaxillary, somewhat umbellate. The root isemployed inCoromandel to dye the best and most durable red on cotton cloth.The leaves, according to Ainslie, are considered by the native doctorsexpectorant.Tribe IV.ISERTIEJE.Fruit drupaceous, containing several many-seeded stones. Albumenfieshy. Shrubs or herbaceous plants. Leaves opposite.Stipules interpetiolar.ISERTIA.Limb of calyx 4 6-toothed, tube somewhat globose- Corollawith a long tube, 6-lobed at the apex, woolly inside, having therecesses between the lobes drawn out into crests. Stamens 6,inclosed. Stigmas stellate. Berry globose, crowned with thecalyx, containing 6 triquetrous, brittle, many-seeded stones.South American trees. Branches striated. Leaves velvety underneath.Stipules lanceolate subulate, 2 on each side. Thyrseterminal, many-flowered. Flowers scarlet.869. I. coccinea Vahl eel. ii. 27. DC. prodr. iv. 437.Guettarda coccinea Aubl. guian.i. 317. t. 123. Guayana.A small tree, with a trunk 10-12 feet high. Leaves decussating,smooth, oval, long-pointed, green above, ash-coloured underneath, withstrong reddish veins. Stipules broad, quickly deciduous. Flowers ina large terminal panicle, with 3-flowered branches. Calyx purple, witha yellow firm 4-toothed limb. Corolla bright red, curved, about2 inches long. Fruit red, succulent, the size of a cherry. A decoctionof the leaves employed by the Creoles as a fomentation to cureswellings.Its bark is considered febrifugal.Tribe VII.GUETTARDEJE.Fruit drupaceous, with many \~seeded stones. Seeds slender,long, generally erect. Albumen fieshy. Shrubs or trees. Leavesopposite, rarely ternate, with interpetiolar stipuks.NONATELIA.Limb of calyx 5-toothed, permanent.Corolla tubular, funnel-436