Scopolia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, ~ = ie 
Chamaelaea trifolia, aculeata, floribus spicatis, iescoae 
Zeyl. 58, t, 24, 
Toddalia. Juss, gen, 371; and Lamarck Illustr. ii, 116, 
2757, Encycl. Bot. vii. 692. 
Cranzia. Schreb, gen. N. 362. 
Telinga, Conda Cashinda. 
_ Is one of the most common bushes on the coast of Coro- 
mandel, delights in a rich soil, such as old hedges, under 
old trees, &e. is in general found in the state of a very 
ramous bushy shrub, but in less frequented places, where it 
meets with support and no enemies, it runs over the highest 
trees, 
Stem irregular. Bark corky. Branches exceedingly 
numerous, scandent. Prickles innumerable, scattered over 
every part of the younger branches, tender shoots, petioles, 
and nerves of the leaflets, recurved, very acute. Leaves al-— 
ternate, ternate, armed. Leaflets oblong, or broad-lanceo- 
late, notched, emargined, smooth; about an inch and a half 
long, and half or three-fourths broad. Petioles channelled, 
armed like the branchlets, Racemes axillary, generally 
compound, length of the leaves, lowers small, white. 
Calya inferior, small, glandular, five-toothed. Petals five, 
oblong, spreading. . Filaments five, nearly as long as the 
petals, spreading. Anthers oblong, incumbent. Germ. ovate, 
five-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the middle of 
the axis. Style short, thick. Stigma five-lobed. Berry 
the size of a small cherry, compressed, five-grooved, orange- 
coloured, five-celled. Seed one in each cell, 
Every part of this shrub has a strong pungent taste. — ~The 
roots when fresh cut smell particularly so. The fresh leaves 
are eaten raw for pains in the bowels; the ripe berries are 
fully as pungent as black pepper, and with nearly the same 
kind of pungency; they are pickled by the natives, and a 
most excellent one they make, | é 
The fresh bark of the bootie aikihinistered by the Telinga 
physicians for the cure of that sort of remittent, commonly 
