CINCHONACEjE. 



sometimes abortive ; anthers oblong, nearly sessile in the middle 

 of the tube. Style not protruded ; stigma bifid. Berry small, 

 roundish globose, becoming brittle, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



872. P. fcetida Linn. mant. 52. Lam. illustr. t. 166. f. 1. 

 Roxb. fi. ind. i. 683. DC. prodr. iv. 471. — Apocynum foeti- 

 dum Burm.fi. ind. 71. Convolvulus foetidus Humph, v. t. 160. 



— Islands and continent of India ; Japan. 



Stem woody, twining when young, round and smooth. Leaves 

 opposite, long stalked, oblong cordate, pretty smooth, entire ; stipules 

 broad cordate. Panicles axillary and terminal, brachiate. Flowers 

 numerous, deep pink. Bracts ovate. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla with 

 the tube long, somewhat gibbous, and woolly inside ; the limb narrow, 

 divided into 5 cordate, crenulate segments. Filaments short, inserted 

 irregularly about the middle of the tube ; anthers erect, within the tube. 

 Ovary turbinate, 2-celled ; cells containing 1 ovule each, attached 

 to the bottom of the cell ; style single ; stigma 2-cleft, with the lobes 

 bent amongst the anthers. Berry dry, compressed, smooth, with 5 

 lines on each side; 1 -celled, 2-seeded. Seeds compressed, smooth, 

 enlarged, with a somewhat membranous ring all round. — Leaves very 

 fetid and alliaceous ; yet they are used to impregnate baths, and in 

 decoction are administered internally in retention of urine, and in cer- 

 tain febrile complaints. According to Roxburgh, the root is used by 

 the Hindoos as an emetic. 



Tribe IX. Coffee. 

 Fruit 2-celled, berried, with 2 bony or crustaceous 1 -seeded nuts 

 which are fiat and furrowed in the inside ; or occasionally, by 

 abortion, having but 1 nut, and then the seeds are erect, depressed 

 or laterally adherent. Albumen horny. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves 

 opposite. Stipules interpetiolar united or distinct. 



CANTHIUM. 



Limb of calyx short, 4-5-toothed. Corolla with a short tube, 

 a bearded throat, and a 4-5-lobed spreading limb. Anthers in- 

 serted in the throat, scarcely protruding. Style filiform, pro- 

 truded. Stigma undivided, roundish-ovate or mitre-formed. 

 Berry globose or didymous, crowned by the teeth of the calyx. 



— Asiatic or African shrubs, with spiny or unarmed branches. 

 Peduncles axillary, short, many-flowered. 



873. C parviflorum Lam. diet. i. 602. Roxb. corom. i. 39. t. 51. 

 Roxb.fi. ind. i. 534. — Webera tetrandra Willd. sp. pi. i. 1224. 

 (Rheede v. 71. t. 36.) — A common bush throughout India. 



A small, thorny bush. Leaves on the young shoots opposite, on the 

 old ones fascicled, ovate, smooth ; stipules subulate. Racemes oppo- 

 site, below the thorns, small, about the length of the leaves. Pedun- 

 cles and pedicels smooth, round. Flowers small, yellow. Drupe 

 obcordate, laterally compressed a little with a hollow on each side, the 

 size of a cherry, fleshy, smooth, yellow. — A decoction of the leaves 

 or root is prescribed in India in certain stages of flux ; and the latter 



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