Flora Medica

NONATELIA.shaped, with a rather gibbous tube, and 5 lobes. Stamens 5,somewhat enclosed. Drupe globose, furrowed, with 5 stones.Albumen horny. Shrubs or small trees, with terminal thyrsesof white flowers.870. N. officinalis Aubl. guian.i. 188. t. 73. DC. prodr.iv. 466. Forests of Cayenne and Guayana.A shrub 2 or 3 feet high. Stem knotty. Leaves smooth, ovatelanceolate,subsessile, united at the base by a 4-toothed stipule on eachside ;teeth long and acute. Flowers in terminal corymbs, each subtendedby 3 long scale-like bracts. Tube of the corolla very short,white, with 5 white lobes. Ovary surmounted by 5 yellow glands,from the midst of which the style is projected. Fruit black, spherical,succulent, with 10 streaks. All the parts when bruised or dried giveout a slight aromatic odour. The Creoles call the bush Azier a 1' Asthme,because they find the infusion of the leaves an excellent remedy for thatmalady.ANTIRRHCEA.Limb of calyx campanulate, 4-toothed. Corolla tubular,4-cleft, with the lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers nearlysessile in the throat, not exserted. Stigma bifid. Drupe somewhatbaccate, crowned, containing a 2-celled stone ;with1-seeded cells. Isle of France plants, with opposite or ternateleaves often having glandular hairs in their axils. Stipules interpetiolar.Peduncles axillary, shorter than the leaf, bifid,with the flowers, which are small and white, arranged unilaterallyalong the branches.871. A. verticillata DC. prodr. iv. 459. A. borbonica Gmel.syst. i. 244. Cunninghamia verticillata Willd. i.sp. pi. 615.Malanea verticillata Lam. illustr. t. 66. f. 1 . Isles of Bourbonand Mauritius.Leaves 3 in a whorl, obovate-oblong, cuneate at the base, acuminateat the point, smooth on each side. Flowers hermaphrodite. Drupesoblong, the size of a grain of wheat. Root and bark said to bepowerfully astringent. In Bourbon it is employed as a styptic torestrain haemorrhage, and is known by the name of Bois de Losteau*Tribe VIII.P^DERIE^.Fruit 2-celled, indehiscent, scarcely fleshy ; with the tube of thecalyx forming a rind which readily separates from the carpels.Carpels compressed, 1 -seeded, pendulous from a filiform axis.Albumen fleshy. Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Stipulesinterpetiolar.P^DERIA.Calyx small, 5-toothed, permanent. Corolla funnel-shaped,hairy inside, 5-lobed, with a plaitedaestivation. Stamens 5,437 FF 3