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CESTRACE^:.Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 296.OESTRUM.Calyx tubular, terete, very short, obsoletely 5-toothed. Corollafunnel-shaped, with a long slender cylindrical tube, a roundishthroat, and a flat limb with ovate equal segments. Filamentsthe length of the tube, anthers enclosed. Berry roundish,2-celled, many-seeded.1084-. C.venenatum Thunb. prodr. 36.fi. cap. 193. Woodsat the Cape of Good Hope, in Houtniqua-land and elsewhere.A large woody bush. Branches roughish, purplish the ; young onesfurrowed. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, stalked, acuminate, entire,reflexed at the edge, evergreen, ribbed, quite smooth. Flowers subsessile,in axillary clusters. Corolla with a reddish tube, and a whitelimb, villous on the upper side; the throat being stopped with hair;with the perfume of Jasmine flowers. A decoction of the bark,reduced to the thickness of jelly is used by the Hottentots to envenomtheir weapons. It is said to be a fatal poison, and to be also used bythe same people to destroy wild beasts, by impregnating baits of fleshwith its juice.1085. C. macrophyllum Vent, and 1085 a, C. nocturnum Lam.have similar properties.1086. C. Hediunda Lam. (Hediunda Feuill. il, t. 20. C. auriculatumFl. Peruv. ii. t. 155. f. a.) and 1087. C. laurifoliumL' Herit are febrifugal, and also used externally as astringents.Martins.515 L L 2

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