Order L DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 355 
5876 Leaves conjugate stalked, Leaflets obovate. Stem shrubby 
5877 Leaves conjugate sessile, Leaflets lanceolate oval rough at edge, Stem shrubby 
5878 Leaves with double leaflets stalked, Leaflets cylindrical fleshy smooth, Petals acuminate 
5879 Spiny, Leaflets lanceolate flat smooth 
5880 Spiny, Leaflets linear convex 
5881 Leaflets in 4 pairs : the outer larger. Pericarps 10-seeded blunt 
5882 Leaflets in 6 pairs nearly equal. Seeds w^ith four horns 
5883 Leaflets in 8 pairs nearly equal 
5884 Leafstalk obscurely edged 
5885 Leafstalk scarcely edged at all 
5886 Leaves supradecompound. Leaflets oblong terminal obovate, Petals entire 
5887 Leaves supradecompound. Leaflets all linear. Petals entire 
5888 Leaves supradecompound oblong. Terminal leaflet obovate. Petals toothed 
5889 Leaves supradecompound, Lobes oblong cuneate nearly equal, Bractes very small ovate. Petals ciliate 
5890 Leaves pinnate. Leaves lanceolate attenuate at base serrate crenate, Petals entire 
5891 Leaves mostly ternate lanceolate pubescent : lateral very short, Cal. and ovaries villous 
5899 Leaves simple lanceolate smooth. Filaments ciliated. Stem simple herbaceous 
5893 Leaves in middle ternate linear narrowed at the base entire. Calyxes villous 
5894 Leaves pinnatifid, Segments oblong somewhat stalked : the terminal very large. Petals ciliated 
5895 Leaves bipinnate with obovate retuse leaflets. Flowers 4-petalous 8-androus 
5896 The only species 
5897 The only species 
5898 Leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate serrated at end, Cal. as long as cor. Berries ovate 
5899 Leaves lanceolate entire very obtuse at end. Branches of panicle short angular 
5900 Flowers hermaphrodite. Leaves pinnate with an odd one, Leaflets opposite sessile. Stalk jointed winged 
5901 Flowers monoecious, Leaves abruptly pinnated. Leaflets alternate stalked. Stalk naked 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
and not to be crowded amongst other plants. Cuttings strike root freely in sand, under a bell-glass. {Bot. 
Cult. 173.) 
1000. Codon. From xm^mv, a bell. The corolla of this plant is globular, and formed like a bell in its upper 
part. A scarce Cape shrub, of which Thunberg speaks in terms of great delight upon finding a solitary indi- 
vidual growing by the side of a precipice in its native country. 
1001. Gomphia. From yofx/poi, a club ; but the application is not obvious. These are most beautiful 
tropical bushes, with long spikes of brilliant yellow flowers, and neat serrated shining entire leaves. 
1002. Quassia. So named by Linna^us, in memory of Quassi, a negro slave of Surinam, who found and 
discovered to Rolander, a Swede, the wood of Q. excelsa, which he had employed with success as a secret 
remedy in the malignant endemic fevers of Surinam. 
Q. amara is a lofty tree with strong branches, white light wood, their bark and leaves not unlike those of 
the common ash. The flowers are in terminal racemes, of a bright red. The root, wood, bark, and indeed 
all the parts of this tree are intensely bitter. Linnteus says that the wood of the root is a noble remedy, but 
that the wood of the small branches, which has since been substituted for it, is good for nothing. The wood of 
both is now thought to be less intensely bitter than the bark, which is at present regarded as the most power- 
ful medicine. Quassia has no sensible odor; its taste is that of a pure bitter, more intense and durable than 
that of almost any other known substance : it imparts its virtues more completely to watery than spirituous 
menstrua, and its infusions are not blackened by the addition of martial vitriol. It is said that considerable 
quantities of this drug are used by the brev;ers instead of hops. 
Q. Simaruba, or mountain damson, as it is called in Jamaica, is a tall tree v;ith alternate branches, and a 
smooth grey bark, maculated with yellow spots. The leaves are pinnate ; the flowers are male and female on 
the same axillary panicles, yellowish white ; the fruit consists of five smooth, ovate, black, one-celled berries, 
on a common receptacle, and open spontaneously when ripe. 
The officinal part of this tree is the bark of the root ; it is inodorous, and has a bitter, but not disagreeable 
taste. The pieces are of a very fibrous texture, rough, scaly, warty, and of a full yellow color in the inside 
when fresh. Alcohol and water take up all its agtive matters by simple maceration, at a temperature of sixty 
degrees of Fahrenheit better than at a boiling heat; it is tonic, and has been employed with advantage in 
intermittent fever, obstinate diarrhoea, dysentery, and dyspeptic affections. {T/iomson's London Dispensaiori/, 
462.) 
The different species of quassia flower freely in the stove ; are of easy culture in loam and peat, and are 
mereasod by ripened cuttings taken off at a joint, and not deprived of their leaves, and planted in a pot of 
sand under a hand-glass. 
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