PLATE DCLV. 

 CERBERA MANGHAS. 



Poisonous-fruited Cerbera, 



CLASS V. ORDER L 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Stamens. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Flores contorti. Corolla infundibuliformis, 

 pulposa, Drupa monosperma. 



Flowers contorted. Blossom funnel-shaped, 

 pulpy. Seed-vessel one-seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHAR.ACTER. 



Cerbeba foliis alternis, lato-lanceolatis, glabris : 

 ramis floriferis ternainalibus : corolla alba, 

 infundibuliformi : perianthio 5-phyllo : 

 foliolis lanceolalis, deciduis : fructu persis- 

 tente. 



Cerbera with leaves alternate, broadly lance- 

 shaped, and smooth : flower-branches termi- 

 nal : blossoms white and funnel-shaped : 

 empalement 5-leaved : leaflets lance-shaped 

 and deciduous : fruit persistent. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A. blossom spread open. 



2. Empalement, summit magnified. 



Our drawing represents a new species of Cerbera introduced from Pulo-Pinang in I8O9, %nd which 

 flowered late in the autumn of 1812, for the first time in this country, in the hot stove of T. Evans, Esq. 

 whose collector informs us that it grows in abundance by the sea-side, and is a handsome shrub about 

 three feet high. By the natives it is -.ailed Devil's flower, a title they apply indiscriminately to all nox- 

 ious plants. But although it is considered as poisonous (as are all the Cerberas at present known) the 

 natives of Am oyna are said by Rumphius to use it medicinally as a purgative, but that it is too powerful 

 to be taken with safety by strangers. In Macassar an oil is expressed from the fruit, which is burnt 

 in lamps, and emits a disagreeable smell. It bears a variety of names. By the Dutch it is called Miik- 

 hout ; in Portugal and Malay, Manga Brava ; at Amboyna, Wabba ; in Macassar, Lambuio Baleyice, 

 Bintaro and Sassura Utan, and by some Caju Mattu, Buta or Blinthout. There are three uncoloured 

 figures of it ; one in Burmann's Zeylanica, page 150, tab. JO. figure 1 j another in Rnmphius's Amboy- 

 nensis, vol. ii. page 243, figure 81 ; and in Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus, page 71, tab. 3. there is a 

 representation of it by the title of Odallam j and, although a rough draft, it is certainly not the worst 

 figure of the plant. 



