GENTIANE. 3 11 
ST RyCUNOSiST. IGNATII. 
BERGIUS. 
ST. IGNATIUS BEAN. 
Srrycunos. St. Ienatu. Lamarck. Ianatu Amara.——Linneus, Jr. 
Sex. Syst.—Pentandria, Monogynia. 
Gren. Cuar.—See preceding. ; 
Specrr. Cuar.—A branching tree, with long, taper, smooth, scrambling branches. Leaves ovate, acute, stalked, 
veiny, smooth, a span long; hooks none. Panicles small, axille 3—5 flowered, with short, round, rigid pedicels. 
Flowers very long, nodding, white, smelling like jasmine. Fruit smooth, round, as large as an orange. 
This plant is a native of the Philippine Islands, where the seeds are called Igasur. 
The seeds came into the Dutch shops from the East Indies about the latter end of the seventeenth century. 
There is reason to suppose, however, that they were known previous to that period. Loreiro mentions the plant in his 
Flora Cochinchinensis, under the name of Ignatiena Philippinica. 'The idea attached to it is that the Jesuits were 
acquainted with it, and bestowed upon it the name of their patron, St. Ignatius-(Loyola). 
The seeds are the size of a small olive, triangular in form, two sides flat, the third rounded, with the hylum 
at one of the angles; they are darker coloured than nux vomica, but like it covered with minute hairs; they are 
composed of two parts, the testa, and hard, horny, semi-transparent cotyledons with the.embryo. They are destitute 
of odour, and have a bitter taste. 7 
The constituents are the same as nux vomica, and their effects are precisely similar. 
GENTIANES. | 
JUSSIEU. 
GENTIAN TRIBE. 
_ Essentiat Cuar.—Flowers terminal or axillary, regular, or very seldom irregular. Calyx divided, inferior, per- 
sistent. Corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, usually regular and persistent; the limb regular, sometimes furnished 
with delicate fringes; its lobes of the same number as those of the calyx, generally five, sometimes four or six, eight 
or ten; occasionally extended at the base into a bag or spur, with a plaited or folded, or imbricated, twisted estivation. 
Stamens inserted upon the corolla, all in the same line, equal in number to the segments, and alternate with them ; 
Some of them occasionally abortive. Ovary composed of two carpels, one or partly two-celled, many-seeded. Style 
_ One, continuous with the ovary. Stigmas two, right and left of the axis. Ovules none, anatopal, parietal. Capsule 
or berry many-seeded ; when two-valved, the margins of the valves turned inwards, and bearing the seeds. Seeds 
aaa single. Embryo minute, in the axis of soft fleshy albumen. Radicle next the hylum. (Lindley. Veg. 
a Herbaceous plants, seldom shrubs, 
sessile, or having their petioles conflue 
scale-like; sometimes alternate. 
This is a numerous order, found in all parts of the world. It is extremely regular as regards its affinities, both 
cea chemical. A peculiar bitter principle is found ina large number of the species—of which it is consti- 
- This principle, highly elaborated, is Gentianin. 
generally smooth, sometimes twining. Leaves opposite, entire, without stipules, 
nt in a little sheath, in most cases three to five-ribbed ; very rarely brown and 
