432 NOTES OF PLANTS. 
plant is no other than acassi a Cassia fistula^ of a species 
of which, it is well known, there are very lofty trees. 
2. Name unknown. The newly opened blossom is 
white 3 it turns afterwards yellow : the perfume it 
exhales is extremely agreeable. The shrub is nine or 
ten feet high \ I at first took this flower for that 
of an American gourd. (M, Caillie's notes.) 
The leaf is lanceolated and pointed ; the corolla is 
large, monopetalous, funnel-shaped, with a long tube, 
having seven great divisions, oval and very deep ; 
the calyx appears to have eight divisions ; the fruit 
is ovoid ; the stalk is furnished with long blunt thorns 
This plant appears to belong to the rubia family. 
M. Kunth considers it as a species resembling the 
gardenia thunbergia, but differing in having rough 
and smaller leaves. 
3. Name unknown. — The blossoms and leaves are 
hairy ; the petals blue ; the plant is herbaceous. It 
is with its root that the Landamas make the purga- 
tive drink which they call jinjindhi ; this root resem- 
bles the small cassava. (M. Caillie's notes.) 
The fruit and stalk are also hairy. The leaves are 
pointed oval, of a beautiful green, marked with four 
longitudinal borders, and covered on one side with 
flat short and very glossy hairs. The flowers have 
