880 PENTANDEIA MONOGYN1A. Scopolia. 



Chamaelaea trifoiia, aeuleata, floribus spicatis. Burm. Zeyl. 58. 

 t. £4. 



Toddalia, Juss. gen. 371; and Lamarck illustr. ii. 11 6. £757. 

 Encycl. bot. yii. 692. 



Cianzia, Schreb. gen. N. 2Q%. 



Telinga. Conda Cashinda. 



Is one of the most common bushes on the coast of Coromandel, 

 delights in a rich soil, such as old hedges, under old trees, &c. is in 

 genera) found in the state of a very ramous bushy shrub, but in less 

 frequented place, where it meets with support aud no enemies, it 

 iuns over the highest trees. 



Stem irregular. Bark corky. Branches exceedingly numerous, 

 scandeut — Prickles innumerable, scattered over every part ot the 

 younger branches, tender shoots, petioles, and nerves of the leaflets, 

 recurved, very acute.- — Leaves alternate, teruate, armed. Leajiets 

 cblono-, or bread-lanceolate, notched, emargined, smooth ; about an 

 5nch and half long, and half or three-fourths broad. — Petioles chan- 

 nelled, aimed like the branchlets. — Racemes axillary, generally com- 

 pound, length of the leaves. — Plozeers small, white.— Calyx inferior, 

 small, glandular, five-toothed. — Petals five, oblong, spreading. — 

 Filaments five, nearly as long as the petals, spreading. Anthers 

 oblong, incumbent. —Germ ovate, five-celled, with two ovula in each, 

 attached to the middle of the axis. Style short, thick. Stigma five- 



lobed. Berry the size of a small cherry, compressed, five-grooved, 



oiange-coloured, five-celled. — Seed one in each cell. 



Every part of this shrub has a strong pungent taste. The roots 

 when fresh cut smell particularly so. The fresh leaves are eaten raw 

 for pains in the bowels; the ripe berries are fully as pungent as black 

 pepper, and with nearly the same kind of pungency ; they are pickled 

 by the natives, and a most excellent one they make. 



The fresh bark of the root is administered by the Telinga physi- 

 cians for the cure of that sort of remittent, commonly called the hill 

 fever. I conceive every part of this plant to be possessed of strong, 



