NONATELIA. 



shaped, with a rather gibbous tube, and 5 lobes. Stamens 5, 

 somewhat enclosed. Drupe globose, furrowed, with 5 stones. 

 Albumen horny. Shrubs or small trees, with terminal thyrses 

 of white flowers. 



870. N. officinalis Aubl. guian. i. 188. t. 73. DC. prodr. 

 iv. 466. Forests of Cayenne and Guayana. 



A shrub 2 or 3 feet high. Stem knotty. Leaves smooth, ovate- 

 lanceolate, subsessile, united at the base by a 4-toothed stipule on each 

 side ; teeth long and acute. Flowers in terminal corymbs, each sub- 

 tended by 3 long scale-like bracts. Tube of the corolla very short, 

 white, with 5 white lobes. Ovary surmounted by 5 yellow glands, 

 from the midst of which the style is projected. Fruit black, spherical, 

 succulent, with 10 streaks. All the parts when bruised or dried give 

 out a slight aromatic odour. The Creoles call the bush Azier a I* Asthme, 

 because they find the infusion of the leaves an excellent remedy for that 

 malady. 



ANTIRRHCEA. 



Limb of calyx campanulate, 4-toothed. Corolla tubular, 

 4-cleft, with the lobes shorter than the tube. Anthers nearly 

 sessile in the throat, not exserted. Stigma bifid. Drupe some- 

 what baccate, crowned, containing a 2-celled stone ; with 

 1-seeded cells. Isle of France plants, with opposite or ternate 

 leaves often having glandular hairs in their axils. Stipules in- 

 terpetiolar. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the leaf, bifid, 

 with the flowers, which are small and white, arranged unila- 

 terally along the branches. 



871. A. verticillata DC. prodr. iv. 459. A. borbonica Gmel. 

 syst. i. 244. Cunninghamia verticillata Willd. sp. pi. i. 615. 

 Malanea verticillata Lam. illustr. t. 66. f. 1. Isles of Bourbon 

 and Mauritius. 



Leaves 3 in a whorl, obovate-oblong, cuneate at the base, acuminate 

 at the point, smooth on each side. Flowers hermaphrodite. Drupes 

 oblong, the size of a grain of wheat. Root and bark said to be 

 powerfully astringent. In Bourbon it is employed as a styptic to 

 restrain haemorrhage, and is known by the name of Bois de Losteau. 



Tribe VIII. P^EDERIE^E. 



Fruit 2-celled ^ indehiscent, scarcely fleshy ; with the tube of the 

 calyx forming a rind which readily separates from the carpels. 

 Carpels compressed, 1 -seeded, pendulous from a filiform axis. 

 Albumen fleshy. Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Stipules 

 interpetiolar. 



P^EDERIA. 



Calyx small, 5-toothed, permanent. Corolla funnel-shaped, 

 hairy inside, 5-lobed, with a plaited aestivation. Stamens 5, 

 437 F F 3 



