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PENTAND. MONOG. 
- 399 - 
. baccatum, Stem fliruLby, fmooth : peduncles in pairs. 
Indies. Sioanejam. \.t. 146./. 2. Plf„ck. ic. t. loS. 
Leases lanceolate, entire ; caljxes with Ipreading 
berries roundifli, red. 
This fpecies produces the Cayenne or Bird-pepper, 
frutescem. Stem flirubby, roiighilh : -peduncles folitarv. 
Indies. ami. 5. r. 88./. i. 3.4. " r/ 
rugged: branches diiSafed: /anw axillary, whits- ^ 
laftron -colour, crooked, horn-fliaped. 
fmme. Stem flirubby, fmooth : peduncles in pairs : petioles 
leaves (lightly pubefeent. 
China. Jacq. hort. 3, tab. 67. jjr!’' 
ovate, alternate: peduncles i-flowcicd, folitaryor'‘1^ 
fruit ovate, pendulous, yellow. 
The fruit of all the fpecies varies much in lhape and 
therefore offers no diftinft Ipecific charafter. 
397. STRYCHNOS. Carol 5-cleft: berry 
covered with a woody bark. 
Nuxnsomica Leaves ovate: ftem unarmed: umbels terminal. 
Indies. Woodni, t.xzpi, Roxb. Carom, i.p. 8.^,4. ssfiC' 
Leanies oppofite, round-oval, (Itining, acute, 3 ' 'ufls' 
ers final], greeniffi-white, in axillary and terminal 
berr'i round : feeds covered with downy radiate haics* 
potatorum. Leaves ovate, 5-nervcd, veined : cymes axillary. 
Eaft Indies. Roxb, Carom, l, p, g. t. 3. 
Leaves oppofite, very entire ; /oavers final!, fragrant., 
colubnna. Leaves lanceolate : tendrils fimple. 
Indies, Kheed* Mah /. BJachiK},. /, 403, 
The wood of the root is ufed againll the- bite of fnake^. 
398. IGNATJA. 5-toothed: corol 
funnel-form: i -celled, many-feeded • ' 
irregular, angular. 
amara, Ignatia. 
^dia. Linn, fuppl, 14^, Gasrtn.frudi. z. 477. .of' 
Lree with long round branches and climbing (hoots : 
polite, ovate, very entire, acute: panicles •• 
nodding, white, odorous; fruit hearc-fliaped, covers^ ' 
dry bark, 
399 * CESTRUM. Core/ funnel-form : nLj 
a fmall tooth in the middle: berry 
many-feeded. 
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