FL01U HOKEOPATHICA. 



XXXVII. 



IGNATIA AMARA 



St. Ignatius s Bean. 



Synonyms. — Faba Sancti Ignatii. Cucurbitifera malabathri foliis scandens, 

 cujus nuclei faba Sancti Ignatii nuncupati, Plukenet. Tgnatiana philippina, Lour. 

 Cochinch., 126. Ignatia, Faba Sancti Ignatii, Linn. Supply 129 ; Willd. Sp. 

 Plant., vol. i. p. 1053 ; Mart. Mill. Diet., vol. ii. Igasur seu Nux Vomica legi- 

 tima Serapionis, Camill. Nux pepita seu Faba St. Ignatii, Act. Phil. Strychnos 

 Ignatii, Berg. Mat. Med., p. 89. Faba febrifuga, Geoff., vol. ii. p. 459. Faba 

 Indica, Lew., vol. ii. p. 153. 



Foreign Names.— Ft.: Feve St. Ignacc. Germ.: Bittere Fiebernuss, Bittere 

 Ignatia. Itah; Faba St. Ignatii. 



Nat. Order, Apocyne;e, Juss. — Pentandria,Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. — Calyx: perianth inferior, of one leaf, short, bell-shaped, with 

 five upright, ovate, blunt teeth. Corolla of one petal, funnel-shaped ; 

 tube tliread-shaped, a span long, smooth, erect ; limb flat, in five deep, 

 oblong, obtuse, entire segments. Stamens : filaments five, inserted into 

 the receptacle, as long as the tube, thread-shaped, very smooth ; anthers 

 cohering, in the form of an oblong, acute, hispid, five-sided tube. 

 Pistil : germen minute, superior, ovate, smooth ; style thread-shaped, 

 the length of the stamens ; stigma in two deep, awl-shaped divisions. 

 Pericarp : berry large, pear-shaped, smootb, of one cell, v, ith a thick, 

 woody coat. Seeds numerous, smooth, crowded, hard, oblong, somewhat 



angular ; the plumula stalked. 

 Spec. Char.— Calyx inferior, five-toothed. Corolla with a very long 



tube. Berry coated, of one cell, with many seeds. 



Fig 1. A magnified w of an anther. 2- A mI. 3. A section of the same, 

 •Wiring the position of the embryo. The drawing of this plant is made from the 

 dried sp^imen in the Herbarium of F. Linneeus, and coloured after Don's 



description. 



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