TOLYGALA. 



son to be a poisonous plant so much dreaded by the Javanese 

 that they are unwilling to touch it. 



256. P. glandulosa HBK. v. 404. t. 510. is emetic. Martins. 



SOULAMEA. 



Sepals 5, the 3 outer very small, the 2 inner larger, concave. 

 Petal 1, concave. Stamens 6? Capsule samaroid, indehiscent, 

 compressed, corky, orbicular, emarginate, 2-celled. 



257. S. amara DC.prodr. i. 335. — Rex amaroris Rumf. Amb. 

 ii. 129. t. 41. — Coast of the Moluccas. 



A shrub or small tree. Branches few and brittle. Leaves oval, 

 stalked, smooth, 12 or 13 inches long, 3^ wide. Racemes axillary, 

 erect, rather longer than the petioles. Flowers the size of those of 

 the vine, whitish. Fruit compressed, thin at the edges, obcordate, 

 dry; seeds 2 in each cell, resembling cucumber seeds, but smaller; 

 each lying in a small cavity of the cell. — All the parts, especially the 

 roots and fruit, intensely bitter (horrenda amarities Rumf.). Employed 

 in the Malayan Archipelago with extraordinary success in cholera, and 

 pleurisy, and most valuable as a febrifuge. 



MONNINA. 



Flowers resupinate. Sepals 5, deciduous ; the 2 inner wing- 

 like ; the 3 outer ovate, 2 of them being often connate. Petals 

 connate at the base, concave in the middle, often 3-toothed. 

 Stamens 8, with somewhat diaddelphous hairy filaments. Drupe 

 2-celled, 2-seeded, or by abortion 1-celled, 1-seeded, sometimes 

 surrounded by a membranous border. Seed pendulous. — Herbs 

 or under shrubs of Tropical America. 



258. M. polystachya Ruiz, in Lamb, cinch. 144. t. 3. 

 DC. prodr. i. 33- — On the Peruvian Andes, among small 

 shrubs, bushes and herbaceous plants, in cold situations. 

 (Yallhoy Masca Peruv.) 



A downy shrub. Root about 2 feet long, simple, fusiform, very pale; 

 bark about 2 lines thick, readily separating from the wood. Stem 

 erect, about 6 feet high; branches drooping, when young very downy, 

 and slightly purple. Leaves alternate, stalked, ovate-lanceolate, or 

 ovate, acute, or oblong and obtuse, quite entire, smoothish above, 

 villous beneath, about 2 inches long by 1 broad. Racemes compound, 

 terminal, nodding, villous. Calyx small, pale blue, deciduous; the 

 upper sepal ovate, acute, cymbiform, the 2 lower half-connate, shorter, 

 but of the same form, the 2 others roundish-obovate, flat, much larger. 

 Corolla keel-shaped, ventricose at the upper end, white, yellow at the 

 point. Phalanges of stamens 2, tetrandrous, inserted into the base of 

 the corolla. Ovary superior, ovate; style simple, clavate, incurved ; 

 stigma simple, truncate. Drupe pendulous, ovate, shining, polished, 

 juicy, monospermous, about the size of a large pea. Stone bony, 

 tawny, oblonff-ovate, somewhat 2-edged, uneven with excavated dots ; 

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