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lobe obliquely turbinate, clavate, wrinkled, the size of a 

 small Lentil, one-celled, one-valved, of a thick soft 

 spongy substance, and dark brownish black colour : seed 

 conformed to the interior of the cell ; integument single, 

 pretty thick white soft and tough ; albumen none ; embryo 

 " erect, of an almondlike substance ; cotyledons 2, oval, 



'' thick ; plumule small lunulate ; radicle oval, inferior.** 

 Boxb. MSS, 



Introduced in 1796, by Mr, Peter Good. Dr. Rox- 

 burgh mentions a second species, found wild in Silhet, and 

 names it scandens, though he doubts its being really dis- 

 tinct from sanguinea, and suspects the apparent difference to 

 lie between the wild and the cultivated states of the two 

 plants. 



