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122  DIANDRJA -MONOGYNIA, Susticia, 
dy parts round, and covered with pretty smooth Ukay bark ; 
the tender branches, and young shoots. jointed, smooth, and obso- 
letely six-seeded.— Leaves opposite, petioled, broad-lanceolate, : 
point obtuse, above smooth, below a little downy, entire ; from two i 
to four inches long, and from one to two broad.— Panicles corym- 
biform, axillary, dy terminal, always three-cleft, as also the sub- 
divisions.— Peduncles and pedicels short, round, a little dówny.— 
Bractes minute. — f lowers small, white.— Corol with a long, slender 
compressed tube; under lip broad, three-cleft, upper lip erect, lines — 
ar, sides Ted. apex bifid.— Nectary, a fleshy ring surrounding | d 
the base of the germ.— Anthers without the tube, twin — Capsule; — 
zi have not seen it. 
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Obs. Milk boiled on the roots, is reckoned, by the Indian physici- j 4 
ans aphrodisiacal, and as such often. employed ; for no medicines | 
are more sought after by. the natives of India than those which: are r 
imagined t to belong to that class. |... 
"T'he roots rubbed, with lime uit aes pepper, are ats E rs ü 
ten with good effect, to cure the ^réag worms, or Herpes miliaris,, 
which i in India i is a most troublesome disease, and very common. 
They are also used for. the bite of poisonous snakes; hence the 
Telinga and Tamul name ‘Naga mulli, or Jasmine of the "Cobra 
de. capella : ‘Naga i is therefore prefixed to the name of most. of their s 
antidotes, or medicines supposed to destroy the effect of poison, : and d 
occurs very often in their writings. For like the ancient Physicians E 
of Greece, Rome, &c. those of India at this. day, make poisons, and 
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their antidotes, a very chief part of their studies; but from the seem- : : 
ing inactivity of a very large share of them, we may safely conclude, 
that their practice is equally frivolous with that of the 2 ancients, and 
ought to be discouraged as as much as possible ; because atleast, ther ue 
: RE: the application of ı more efficacious remedies. 
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Shrubby, erect. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, smooth. Fascicles 
terminal, panicled, clammy, from two to four-flowered, embraced 
