578 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Solatium, 



Modira Caneram. Rheed. Mai. 8. t. 24. 



Beny. Koochila-luta. 



Found by Mr. M. R. Smith, indigenous on the hills near 

 Silhet, where it blossoms in April, and the seeds ripen in 

 September and October. 



Stem of* great size, often from eight to twelve inches in 

 diameter; the wood hard, intensely bitter and of alight gray 

 colour; this with its numerous ramifications climbs over the 

 highest trees. Bark ash-coloured, more or less scabrous, ac- 

 cording to the age and size of the part of the young shoots, 

 smooth and green. Tendrils lateral, simple, becoming thick 

 and ligneous. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from oval to 

 oblong, entire, obtusely acuminate, triple-nerved ; nerves ex- 

 tending to the apex, texture rather thin ; glossy ; from three 

 to six inches long, by two or three broad. Stipules none. 

 Corymbs terminal, small ; composed of two or three pairs of 

 opposite, few-flowered, short, villous branches. Flowers 

 small, greenish yellow, in a sub-ternary order. Bractes one 

 under each division and sub-division of the corymb, tapering', 

 villous. Calyx five-parted, clammy, with glandular pubes- 

 cence. Corol infundibuliform, smooth. Tube cylindric. 

 Border five-parted ; segments linear-oblong-, spreading. Fi- 

 laments five, short, inserted into the mouth of the tube of the 

 corol under the fissures of its border. Anthers sub-sagittate. 

 Germ superior, ovate, smooth, two-celled, with many ovula 

 in each, attached to a fleshy ridge down the middle of the 

 partition. Style the length of the corol. Stigma capitate. Ber- 

 ry often as large as an orange, round, in the advanced state 



from the Nux-vomica tree, which yields the real or at least another 

 sort of the Lignum colubrinum. The wood of the root of this sort 

 is esteemed by the Telinga Physicians an infallible remedy for the 

 bite of the Naya, as well as for that of every other venomous 

 snake. It is applied externally, and at the same time given in- 

 ternally. It is also given in substance for the cure of intermitting 

 fevers. — Roxb. Mss. 



