CALYCIFLOR/E. 
100 
inflated ; when mature filled with an agreeable acid pulp. 
Seeds seldom more than 12, ovato-oblong, compressed, 
with the apex as if premorsed and 3-dentate, scrobiculate, 
of a chesnut colour. 
The leaves give out a heavy unpleasant odour when 
bruised, and hence the specific name. The fruit, when in 
perfection has an agreeable taste, and is deserving of cul- 
tivation. 
II. Murucuia. 
Calycine tube sulcated at the base. Crown 
simple erect, tubuloso-conical, truncated, with the 
threads not free, but united to form a tube. 
Name, the Brazilian designation of the species. 
1. Murucuia ocellata. Dutchman's Lauda - 
num . 
Leaves glabrous glandulose on the under sur- 
face emarginate at the base truncato-bilobed at 
the apex, petioles eglandulose shorter than the 
peduncle, bractece narrow very acute. 
Murucuja foliis lunatis, Tournef. Inst. 241. — Clematis 
Indica, flore puniceo, folio lunato. Plum. Amer. 72. t. 87. 
— -P. foliis tenuoribus trinerviis bicornibus lunatis, Browne^ 
328. — P. Murucuia, Swartz, Obs. 336. — Dot. lleg. 574. — 
Murucuia ocellata, Persoon. Ench. II. 222 
II AB. Woods in the mountains. 
F L. Towards the end of the year. 
Stem frutescent, sulcated, glabrous. Leaves with the 
dorsal glandulose punctse excavated and pellucid. Tend- 
rils subaxillary, filiform, long. Flowers large, crimson, 
axillary, peduncled, in pairs. Peduncles longer than the 
petioles, furnished at the middle with a pair of minute 
filiform bractese. Sepals 5. Petals 5, rather smaller than 
the sepals. Crown single, tubular, with the margin yel- 
low. Gynaphore longer than the petals. Ovary ovate : 
styles patent : stigmata capitato-depressed. Berry ovate, 
size of a large olive, of a fleshy colour when ripe. 
The flowers of this plant are said to possess narcotic 
properties, and a syrup made with them, and also a tinc- 
ture, have been employed as substitutes for the syrup of 
poppies, and for laudanum. It is rather a rare plant to- 
