STRYCHNOS IGNATI!, Bery. 
(BERGIUS MATERIA MEDICA 149.) 
a a AAA 
Alte scandens, inermis, sparsim cirrhosa; truncus 10 con. 
diam. et ultra, cortice leevi, verruculoso vel tenuiter rimoso, ru- 
fescente, ligno pallido stramineo, poroso, liquore aqueo scatente; 
rami divaricati; ramuli teretes vel sub-angulati, graciles, inter- 
nodiis distantibus, fusci, glabri vel pube ochracea, pilis ad lenlem 
stellatis, leviter induti; cirrhi solitari oppositifolii, simplices, 
lignosi, ad apicem uncinato-retrofacti complanali. Petioli breves, 
ad 1 cm. longi vel breviores, seepissime torti, supra canaliculali, 
alutaceo-puberuli vel leves, linea transversa conati. Folia e 
basi acutiuscula aut sub-emarginata, elliptico-oblonga vel ellip- 
tico-ovata, abrupte acuminata, 10-25 cm. longa 3-13 em. lata, 
“chartaceo-membranacea vel subcoriacea, glabra, nitida, subtus 
pallidiora, 3-5-nervia, nervis lateralibus 5-10 mm. supra basin 
ortis apicem attingentibus, transverse reticulato-venosa, nerva- 
tura subtus prominente. Cyme axillares, corymbosze, folio multo 
breviores, trichotome, bracteate. Flores inter minores, 2-4 mum., 
pedicellati vel flos centralis in cymula sessilis, pedicellis brac- 
teisque ochraceo-puberulis. Calyx duabus bracteolis suffultus, 
quinquedivisus, segmentis plus minusve imbricatis, ciliato-fim- 
briatis. Corolla erassiuscula, virescens intus ad faucem livida, 
tubo brevi calyce paulo longiore vel subwquale, lobis valvatis, 
pilis albis densis intus barbatis. Stamina 5 alterna, libera, summo 
tubo inserta, filamentis brevissimis, antheris sub-exertis, dor- 
sifixis, loculis parallelis. Ovarium puberulum, biloculare, pluri- 
ovulatum; stylus filiformis, deciduus, ovarium subeequans; stigma 
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