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STRYCHNOS NUX VOMICA. —- ~——«VOMIC._ NUT, 
3 : Or, POISON-NUT. 
SYNONYMA, Nux vomica. Pharm. Dale. 327. Alfton. ii. 37. 
Lewis. 453. Bergius. 144. Murray. i. 477. Edinb. New Dif. 
239. Nux yomica officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 511. Ger. Emac. 
1546. Park. Theat. 1601. Raii. Hiff. 1661. & 1814. Caniram. 
Hort. Malab. T. i. t. 37+ p-67. Burm, Thef. Zeyl. 171. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 253. 
Gen, Ch. Cor. 5-fida.. Bacca 1-locularis, cortice lignofo. 
Sp. Cb. §. foliis ovatis, caule inermi. - 
THIS large tree fends off numerous ftrong branches, covered . 
with dark grey fmooth bark. ‘The young branches have {welled 
articulations, or a knotty jointed appearance, {candent, and covered 
_ with bark of a dark green colour. The leaves arife at the joints in 
pairs, upon fhort footftalks, and are ovate, broad, pointed, entire, 
with three or five ribs, and on the upper fide of a fhining green 
colour. ‘The flowers terminate the branches in a kind of fafciculated 
umbel. Calyx fmall, tubular, five toothed. Corolla monopetalous : 
tube cylindrical, or rather inflated at the middle, very long, and at 
the limb cut into five {mall ovate fegments. Filaments five, fhort, 
fixed at the mouth.of the tube, and furnithed with fimple antherz. 
Germen roundifh, fupporting a fimple ftyle, terminated by a blunt 
ftigma, Fruit a round {mooth large pulpy berry, externally yellow, 
es containing round depreffed feeds, covered with downy radiated 
alrs, we 
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