Scopolia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 617 



Chamaelaea trifolia, aculeata, floribus spicatis. Burm, 

 Zeyl. 58. t. 24. 



Todclalia. Juss. gen. 371 ; and Lamarck Illusir. ii. 116. 

 2757. Eneycl. Bot. vii. 692. 



Cranzia. Schreb. gen. N. 362. 



Telinya. Conda Cashinda. 



Is one of the most common bushes on the coast of Coro- 

 niandel, delights in a rich soil, such as old hedges, under 

 old trees, iSic is in general found in the state of a very 

 Famous busby shrub, but in less frequented places, where it 

 meets w iili support and no enemies, it runs over the highest 

 trees. 



Stem irregular. Bark corky. Branches exceedingly 

 numerous, scandent. Prickles innumerable, scattered over 

 < \ i 1 y part of the younger branches, tender shoots, petioles, 

 and nerves of the leaflets, recurved, very acute. Leaves al- 

 ternate, ternate, armed. Leaflets oblong, or broad-lanceo- 

 late, notched, emargined, smooth ; about an inch and a half 

 long, and half or three-fourths broad. Petioles channelled, 

 armed like the branehlets. Racemes axillary, generally 

 compound, length of the leaves. Flowers small, white. 

 Calyx inferior, small, glandular, five-toothed. Petals five, 

 oblong, spreading. Filaments five, nearly as long as the 

 petals, spreading. Anthers oblong, incumbent. Germ ovate, 

 five-celled, with two ovula in each, attached to the middle of 

 the axis. Style short, thick. Stigma five-lobed. Berry 

 the size of a small cherry, compressed, five-grooved, orange- 

 coloured, five-celled. Seed one in each cell. 



Every part of this shrub has a strong pungent taste. The 

 roots when fresh cut smell particularly so. The fresh leaves 

 are eaten raw for pains in the bowels ; the ripe berries are 

 fully as pungent as black pepper, and with nearly the same 

 kind of pungency ; they are pickled by the natives, and a 

 most excellent one they make. 



The fresh bark of the root is administered by the Telinga 

 physicians for the cure of that sort of remittent, commonly 



