comfrey, in botany: A genus of plants belonging to the class of pentandra, and order of monogynia; and in the natural system, ranging under the 4th order afterflosfera. The limb of the corolla is tubular and ventricose, and the throat is flutted with awl-shaped rays. There are three species; the officinalis, tuberofum, and orientale.—The officinale is a British plant. The stem is about two feet high, round, branched, green, and rough. The radical leaves are very large and rough; those on the stalk are decurrent, and alternate. The flowers grow on loose spikes, and are either of a yellowish or purple colour. It grows on the banks of rivers, and flowers from May to October.

SYMPOLOCE, ευστοχος, in rhetoric, a figure, where the same word is repeated several times in the beginning and end of a sentence, including the anaphora and epitrope: thus, Quis legem tulit? Rullus. Quis majorem populi partem suffragis privaverit? Rullus. Quis comitis praefuit? Idem Rullus.