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ways three-cleft, as also the sub-divisions. Peduncles and 

 pedicels short, round, a little downy. JBractes minute. 

 Flowers small, white. Corol with a long, slender, compressed 

 tube; vnder lip broad, three-cleft; upper lip erect, linear, 

 sides reflected, apex bifid. Nectary, a fleshy ring- surround- 

 ing the base of the frerm. Anthers without the tube, twin. 

 Capsule ; I have not seen it. 



Obs. -Milk boiled on the roots, is reckoned, by the Indian 

 physicians aphrodisiacal, and as such often employed ; for no 

 medicines are more sought after by the natives of India than 

 those which are imagined to belong- to that class. 



The roots rubbed with lime juice, and pepper, are used, 

 and often with good effect, to cure the riny worms, or Herpes 

 miliaris, which in India is a most troublesome disease, and 

 very common. 



They are also used for the bite of poisonous snakes ; hence 

 the Telinya and Tamul name Naya mulii, or Jasmine of 

 the Cobra de cape/la; Naya is therefore prefixed to the 

 name of the most of their antidotes, or medicines supposed to 

 destroy the effect of poison, and occurs very often in their 

 writings. For like the ancient physicians of Greece, Rome, &c. 

 those of India at this day, make poisons, and their antidotes 

 a very chief part of their studies ; but from the seeming inac- 

 tivity of a very large share of them, we may safely conclude, 

 that their practice is equally frivolous with that of the an- 

 cients, and ought to be discouraged as much as possible ; be- 

 cause at least, they prevent the application of more effica- 

 cious remedies. 



II. J. lanceolaria . R. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves petioled, lanceolar, smooth. Fas- 

 cicles terminal, panieled, clammy, from two to four- flowered, 

 embraced by many, long, ensiform, bractes. Tube of the co- 

 rol curved, and twisted ; upper lip three-dentate ; under lip 

 entire. 



