i$S OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



along the fhore towards the iidc of yJngeri, on 

 a brook which was about the diflance of a 

 gun-fhot from our boat, where we filled a tun 

 full of water, which was not very good. On 

 the fide of the brook flood a tree of about 

 ten or twelve feet high, which had both flowers 

 and fruits, and which the Indians called Vien- 

 taro: it is Cerbera Manghas j the germen is 

 oval like the fiigtna, which is bifid: the suf- 

 ivard Jbcll of the fruit contained a milky juice, 

 which raifed a fufpicion of its qualities; and 

 befides, the people of the country more than 

 once told ns that it was poifonous. It may 

 be compared with the Arbor laclaria y Malaice 

 Bintaro Rump.iii. p. 234. and Jafminum In- 

 dicum, Merlan Surin. p. & t. 8. ^uauthlepatli 

 f. Arbor ignea. Hern. Hid. Mex. cap. xxxiii. 



The other plants which I gathered here, 

 were 



Acanthus Uicifolius : the pcrianthium is 

 double : the cutermojl is lefs ; and both of 

 them have two oppofite leaves foinewhat larger 

 than the reft : the four /lamina are fhorter 

 than the corolla, and two of them longer than 

 the other two : the filaments are broad, point- 

 ed., and ftriated in the middle : the anthsrje, 



