76 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



grow abundantly at Acheen, and to he used as a topical 

 application to limbs afflicted with chronic pains. The whole 

 plant has a disagreeable heavy smell, and sitting in a room 

 with a branch of it is apt to give a headache. 



2. Atropa ? virgata, H. 



Stem shrubby, wand like ; spikes terminal interrupted ; 

 Flowers sub-sessile, crowded leaves oblong. Stems several 

 from one root, shrubby, wand like, jointed, cylindrical, smooth. 

 Leaves opposite, oblong-oval, pointed, most entire smooth ; 

 (length one foot, breadth rive inches). Spike terminal, 

 interrupted. Flowers large, of a cream colour; sub-sessile, 

 crowded. Calyx Perianthium small, one leafed, pitcher form, 

 rive cleft ; segments ovate, obtuse connivent. Corolla one 

 petaled, funnel shape, tube cylindric, limb bellied, rive cleft, 

 segments ovate, obtuse, nearly equal. Stam : filaments rive, 

 arched, declining ; rising from the throat of the tube, longer 

 than the corolla, anthers arrow form, versatile. Pist : Germen 

 ovate, smooth, style, awl-form, erect, a little shorter than the 

 stamina ; stigma orbiculate, depressed. Germ : two celled, 

 with receptacles kidney shape, rudiments of the seeds 

 numerous. 



Not having found the fruit I could not positively ascer- 

 tain the genus ; but have placed it here from the structure of 

 the germ, and the similarity of the flower to that last describ- 

 ed. It is a very handsome shrub growing in the woods. 



(I cannot guess what either of these are). 



SOLANUM. 



Solarium indicum. 



Growing in vallies near to water courses, in the hills. 



Ignatia. 



Ignatia amara ? {Stryclmos probably Tieute Bl.). 



This tree I did not see, but found on the road up the hill, 

 at the foot of some tall trees, a fruit which I take to be that 

 of the Ignatia. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



