303 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



This charming shrub, which seems to delight in 

 watery places, rises to the height of ten or twelve, 

 and sometimes of twenty feet; exhibiting a most, 

 elegant appearance, with rich racemes or panicles 

 lightly dispersed on the summit of its branchlets. On 

 a comparison of two engravings in Rumphius, and 

 as many in Van Rheede, and of the descriptions 

 in both works, I am nearly persuaded that the Sin- 

 DHUca, or JMrgaiufi, is the Vitex Negundo of Lin- 

 jt£US 5 but it certainly resembles the three-leaved 

 Vitex in its leaves, which are opposite, egged, 

 acute, petioled - y above mostly three d, below mostly 

 fved-, paler beneath ; rarely sawed and very slightly, 

 but generally entire : they are very aromatic, and 

 pillows are stuffed with them, to, remove a cold in 

 the head and a head-ach occasioned by it. These, 

 I prusume, are the shrubs which Bontius calls 

 Lagondi, and which he seems to consider as a pa- 

 nacea. 



56. Ca'raye'lla : 

 S y n . Cat ill a ca , Stcshav t . 

 Vulg. Beng Hurhuriya\ Iliad, Caraila, 

 Linn, Fi v e- 1 ea v ed Cleom e ? 

 Cal. Perianth four-leaved, gaping at the base* 



then erect 5 leaflets egg-oblong, concave, downy, 



deciduous. 

 Cor. Cross-form. Petals four, expanding, cLrws 



long; folds wrinkled. 

 Nectary, from six to twelve roundish perforated 



ghmds, girding the gibbous receptacle* 



StAM* 



