Strychnos. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 2Co 



JSlodira Caneram, Rheed. mal. 8. t. 24. 

 Baig. Koochila-luta. 



Found by Mr. M. R- Smith, indigenous on the hills near Silhet, 

 where it blossoms in April, and the seeds ripen in September and 

 October. 



Stem of great size, often from eight to twelve inches in diameter; 

 the wood hard, intensely bitter and of a light grey colour; this with ita 

 numerous ramifications climbs over the highest trees. Bark ash- 

 coloured, more or less scabious, according to the age and size 

 of the part of the young shoots, smooth and green. — Tendrils lateral, 

 simple, becoming thick and lignous. — Leaves opposite, short. petiol- 

 ed, from oval to oblonu-, entire, obtusely acuminate, triple-nerved ; 

 nerves extending to the apex, texture rather thin; glossy ; from three 

 to six inches long, by two or three broad. — Stipules none. — Corymbs 

 terminal, small; composed of two or three paiis of opposite, few- 

 flowered, short, villous branches. — F loners small, greenish yellow, 

 in a sub-ternary order. — Bractes one under each division and sub- 

 division of the corymb, tapering, villous. — Calyx five-parted, clammy, 

 with glandular pubescence. — Coiol infundibuliform, smooth. lube 

 cylindric Border five-parted; segments linear-oblong, spreading. 

 — Filaments five, short, inserted into the mouth of the tube cf the 

 carol under the fissures of its border. Anthers sub-sagittate.— Germ 

 superior, ovate, smooth, two-celled, with many ovula in each, attach- 

 ed to a fleshy ridge down the middle of the partition. Styfe ihe length 

 of the corol. Stigma capitate. — Berry often as large as an orange, 

 round, in the advanced slate one cell only can be detected. Cortex 



petiols were very short, and connected at their insertions by a membrane. 1 took up (his 

 root with the greatest care, cut off the npper part from whence the shoots grew, and planted 

 it in my garden, bat it soon perished. From the above circumstances I am inclined to toink 

 tLere is a species different from the third, or scandent species called Colubrina, as well as 

 from the Xux-vomica tree, -nbich yields the real or at least another sort of the Lgnum. 

 colulrinum. The wood of the root of this sort is esteemed by the Telinga Physicians an 

 infallible remedy for the bite ofthe.Vff^u, as well as for that of every other venomaus 

 make. It is applied externally, and at the same time given internally. it is also giveiiio 

 substance for the cure of intermitting fevers Roxb. Mss. 



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