Flora Medica

CINCHONACE.ffi.sometimes abortive ; anthers oblong, nearly sessile in the middleof the tube. Style not protruded stigma bifid. Berry small,;roundish globose, becoming brittle, 2-celled, 2-seeded.872. P. fcetida Linn. mant. 52. Lam. illustr. 1. 166. f. 1.Roxb. fl. ind. i. 683. DC. prodr. iv. 471. Apocynum fcetidumBurm.fi. ind. 71. Convolvulus fcetidus Humph,v. t. 160.Islands and continent of India ;Japan.Stem woody, twining when young, round and smooth. Leavesopposite, long stalked, oblong cordate, pretty smooth, entire ; stipulesbroad cordate. Panicles axillary and terminal, brachiate. Flowersnumerous, deep pink. Bracts ovate. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla withthe tube long, somewhat gibbous, and woolly inside ; the limb narrow,divided into 5 cordate, crenulate segments. Filaments short, insertedirregularly about the middle of the tube ;anthers erect, within the tube.Ovary turbinate, 2-celled; cells containing 1 ovule each, attachedto the bottom of the cell ; style single stigma ; 2-cleft, with the lobesbent amongst the anthers. Berry dry, compressed, smooth, with 5lines on each side; 1 -celled, 2-seeded. Seeds compressed, smooth,enlarged, with a somewhat membranous ring all round. Leaves veryfoetid and alliaceous; yet they are used to impregnate baths, and indecoction are administered internally in retention of urine, and in certainfebrile complaints. According to Roxburgh, the root is used bythe Hindoos as an emetic.Tribe IX. COFFEJE.Fruit 2-celled, berried, with 2 bony or crustaceous 1 -seeded nutswhich are flat and furrowed in the inside ; or occasionally, byabortion, having but 1 nut, and then the seeds are erect, depressedor laterally adherent. Albumen horny. Trees or shrubs. Leavesopposite. Stipules interpetiolar united or distinct.CANTHIUM.Limb of calyx short, 4-5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube,a bearded throat, and a 4 5-lobed spreading limb. Anthers insertedin the throat, scarcely protruding. Style filiform, protruded.Stigma undivided, roundish-ovate or mitre-formed.Berry globose or didymous, crowned by the teeth of the calyx.Asiatic or African shrubs, with spiny or unarmed branches.Peduncles axillary, short, many-flowered.873. C. parviflorum Lam. diet. i. 602. Roxb. corom. i. 39. t. 51.Roxb.fi, ind. i. 534. Webera tetrandra Willd. i. sp. pi 1224.(Rheede \. 71. t. 36.) A common bush throughout India.A small, thorny bush. Leaves on the young shoots opposite, on theold ones fascicled, ovate, smooth ; stipules subulate. Racemes opposite,below the thorns, small, about the length of the leaves. Pedunclesand pedicels smooth, round. P'lowers small, yellow. Drupeobcordate, laterally compressed a little with a hollow on each side, thesize of a cherry, fleshy, smooth, yellow. A decoction of the leavesor root is prescribed in India in certain stages of flux ;and the latter438