Slrychnos. tentandria monogynia. 575 



STRYCHNOS. Schrcb. gen. N. 339. 

 Calif x five-parted. Corol funnel shaped. Germ two-cell- 

 ed ; ovinia many, attached to the middle of the partition. Ber- 

 ry superior, one-celled. Seeds nestling in soft pulp. Embryo 

 furnished with a perisperni, and the radicle pointing- to the 

 receptacle, now obliterated (centripetal.) 



J. S. JVux-vomica. Willd. sp. i. 1052. Roxh. Corom. i. 4. 



Leaves opposite, three and five-nerved, oval, lucid. Ber- 

 ries many-seeded. 



Cariram. Rheed. Mai. i. t. 37. 



Bene). Kooch/la. 



Teling. Musadi. 



A middling-sized tree, common on almost every part of 

 the coast of Coromandel ; in flower during- the cold season. 



Trunk short, often crooked, but pretty thick. Branches ir- 

 regular, both are covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark ; 

 young shoots highly polished j deep green. Wood white, hard, 

 close-grained, and bitter. Leaves opposite, short-pel ioled, 

 oval, shining-, smooth on both sides, entire, from three to five- 

 nerved, or rather between that and triple, or quintuple, dif- 

 fering in size from one and a half to four inches long", and from 

 one to three broad. Stipules none. Flowers small, greenish- 

 white, collected on small, terminal corymbs. Calyx five-tooth- 

 ed, permanent. Corol infundibuliform, as in the g-enus. Fi- 

 laments scarcely any, or exceedingly short, inserted over the 

 bottom of the divisions of the corol. Anthers oblong-, half 

 within the tube, and half out. Germ two-celled, with many 

 ovula in each, attached to the thickened centre of the parti- 

 tion. Style the length of the tube of the corol. Stigma capi- 

 tate. Berry round, smooth, size of a pretty large apple, co- 

 vered with a smooth, somewhat hard shell, of a rich, beauti- 

 ful orange colour when ripe ; filled with a white, soft, gelati- 

 nous pulp. Seeds several, immersed in the pulp of the berry. 



The wood of this tree being hard and durable is used for 



