998 “ORD. XII. Sotanacee, seu Luride. 
that he had forgotten what I had written, without boing conscious that his memory 
had deceived him. Had it been ot erwise, after perusing the cases T had published 
at pages xx. and pages 151, §c of my Account, &c. he would hardly have thought it 
necessary to have published more instances of what I had stigmatized as bad practice ; 
or to have sought for further proofs, that an active and useful medicine might be 
employed so as to prove a deleterious poison. : 
STRYCHNOS NUX VOMICA. VOMIC NUT, or POISON NUT. 
SYNONYMA. Nux vomica. Pharm. Dale. 327. Alston. ii. 37. 
Lewis. 458. Bergius. 144, Murray. i. 477. Edinb. New Dis. 
939. Nux vomica officinarum. Bauh. Pin. 511. Ger. Emac. 
1546.. Park. Theat. 1601. Rati. Hist. 1661. & 1814., Caniram. 
Hort. Malab. T. 7. t. 37. p. 67. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 171. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 253. 
Gen. Ch. Cor. 5-fida. Bacca 1-locularis, cortice lignoso. 
Sp. Ch. S$. foliis ovatis, caule inermi. 
THIS large tree sends off numerous strong branches, covered 
with dark grey smooth bark. The young branches have swelled 
articulations, or a knotty jointed appearance, scandent, and covered 
with bark of a dark green colour. The Jeaves arise at the joints in 
pairs, upon short footstalks, and are ovate, broad, pointed, entire, 
with three or five ribs, and on the upper side of a shining green 
colour. The flowers terminate the branches in a kind of fasciculated 
umbel. Calyx small, tubular, five toothed. Corolla monopetalous: 
“tube cylindrical, or rather inflated at the middle, very long, and at 
the limb cut into five smal] ovate segments. Filaments five, short, 
_fixed at the mouth of the tube, and furnished with simple anthere. 
Germen roundish, supporting a simple style, terminated by a blunt 
stigma. Fruit around smooth large pulpy berry, externally yellow, 
and containing round depressed seeds, covered with downy radiated 
airs. 
