oblong, yellow, opening with two lateral cells. The cap- 
sule is scarcely altered in form from what it was in the state 
of the germen, except that the aperture between the styles 
is more enlarged: the styles and withered stamens remain. 
Within the one-celled capsule are three longitudinal pari- 
etal receptacles, bearing each a few elliptical brown seeds, 
acuminulated at both extremities, filled internally with an 
albumen, which is between waxy and corneous, except at 
one end, where the minute embryo is imbedded. 
Although the drawing in the possession of W. TownsEND 
Arron, Esq., from which the annexed figure was principally 
copied, represents but a small state of the plant; yet we 
are glad to have an opportunity of giving any representa- 
tion of so great a rarity, of which no good plate has yet 
been given, and which has been by no one well described, 
but by Dr. Wa ticu, in the Flora Indica, above quoted. 
That description, indeed, is most accurate in every respect. 
Tuunsere first detected the plant in Japan, where it is 
known by the name of Doku Dami, or Sjunjak, growing 
abundantly in ditches by way sides ; and it has since been 
found in very great plenty also in Nepal, by the Honorable 
Mr. Garpner, Dr. Gowan, and Dr. Watiicu. We have 
many dried specimens from the latter botanist, from which 
our dissections have been made ; and, from seeds sent by 
‘the same individual, and from the same country, Nepal, 
plants have been raised by Mr. Arron at Kew, which blos- 
somed in the month of September, 1826. . 
In Cochinchina, Lovretro found it only in gardens. 
Fen rn 
Fig. 1. Single Flower. 2. Anther. 3. Capsule. 4. Capsule open to 
ee 5. Seed. 6. Section of ditto.—Mugni- 
cance 
