578 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Solanum, 
Modira Caneram, Rheed, Mal. 8. t. 24, 
Beng. Koochila-luta. 
Found by Mr. M. R. Smith, indigenes’ on the hills near 
Silhet, where it blossoms in April, and the seeds spe in 
September and October. 
Stem of great size, often from eight to twelve inches in 
diameter ; the wood hard, intensely bitter and of a light gray 
colour; this with its numerous ramifications climbs over the 
highest trees. Bark ash-coloured, more or less scabrous, ac- 
cording to the age and size of the part of the young shoots, 
smoothand green, Tendrils lateral, simple, becoming thick _ 
and ligneous, Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from oval to 
oblong, entire, obtusely acuminate, triple-nerved ; nerves ex- 
tending to the apex, texture rather thin; glossy ; from three 
to six inches long, by two or three broad. Stipu/es none. 
Corymbs terminal, small ; composed of two or three pairs of 
opposite, few-flowered, short, villous branches. Flowers 
small, greenish yellow, in a sub-ternary order, Bractes one 
under each division and sub-division of the corymb, tapering, » 
villous. Calyx five-parted, clammy, with glandular pubes- 
cence. Corol infundibuliform, smooth. Tube cylindric, 
Border five-parted ; segments linear-oblong, spreading. F%- 
laments five, short, inserted into the mouth of the tube of the 
corol under the fissures of its border. Anthers sub-sagittate. 
Germ superior, ovate, smooth, two-celled, with many ovula 
h, attached to a fleshy ae. down the middle of the 
from the Nux-vomica tree, which yields the real or at least another 
sort of the Lignum colubrinum. The wood of the root of this sort 
is esteemed by the Telinga Physicians an infallible remedy for the 
ee Naya, as well as for that. of every other venomous 
ce. It is . Apphied externally, and at the same Aigne, given ine 
