BESCRIPTIONS'-OF 

 «^ any thing ©F the ^flataraL ch arable r^ as our plants ha ^%' 



One of the /four individsaals-allu-ded to in this -extra dl bL^llouvvu 

 tforthefirfl time towards the clofe of 1816, aod while I write i.kis 

 fin December of the followiog iyearJbGth that and another -female 

 ffomewhat fmaller fhrab are covered from the bafe fof ..the 

 ,|lem along the principal branches with innumerable fafcicles -o^ 

 .pendoloos racemes, which give them ^ very ftately appearance. 

 The fmell of the lowers fpreads to a., great diilanqe and being 

 YQTj powerfar is offcnfive in the immediate vicinity of the 'ferEibg 

 not unlike that of the common .;S^rl^^rrj/ and Lawfonia, The root 

 ■is ligneous and very br^nchyj porous and of ,a4eep yellow colo.ur 

 wiihiOj poflediog a peculiar, iirong and naufeous fmell, ' snd liJie 

 ,ali the tender ps^rts of the plant a bit-ter tafte. The principal 

 branches of the root are covered with a fpongy cracked bayk, 

 pThe circumference of the trunk meafures at prefent between four- 

 teen md feventeen inches. The old leaves eCpecially .their ribs 

 and nerves are yellowilh. 



The ixiiftake of Po.ir.et in ^nhmg Ciffompelos Pardra, Caape-^ 

 ia and other plants with Menifpermum CoccuLus L» in -the continua- 

 tion of Lamarck's Encycl. Botanique, -V. p. .9. has been adverted 

 ,to by the illuftrious author of the articles ■ Mmifperiimm and 

 Ciffampdos in Rees' new Cyclopsedia. — Lamarck (1, c. iv, p. 96.) 

 cites RuMpHius' Tviha haccijtrfi with fome doubt as, a variety, 

 or perhaps the female plant only of his Mo tuberculatum (Roxburg^h's 

 M, verrucofuTiii fee Fleming in Afiat. Eefear^h : xi. p. 171); and 

 $Mo pages further on, he forms it into a diftin6l fpecies, whi^h he 

 s M. iacunojum, and , which is the fame as Mo Cocculus- I am 

 lied that neither Riieede's nor Gaeetner*s works have been 

 quoted under this head. The fame great botanift eftablifhes a 

 Separate fpecies on E.uMPfliua' Iii^a fima and caJls it M, Jl^vefccns, 



