on the Hot- 1 us Malabaricus, Part I. .yj<) 



quatuor, subulata, laciniis calycinis opposita. bisque loo- 

 giora, antheris adultis, elasticc rerlexa. 

 Foeminina arbor. Florcs axillares, minimi, ssepe seniles, ge- 

 mini, saepius tamen subfasciculati, subpedicellati, brac- 

 teis suffulti duabus minutis, persistentibus, calyci arete ad- 

 hoerentibus. Calyx quadripartitus, persist! us, laciniis con- 

 cavis, convolutis, germen arete incumbentibus. Germen 

 superum, oblongum. Stylus bipartitus, exsertus, laciniis 

 rlexuosis. Stigmata simplicia. Bacca nutans, lutea, sub- 

 rotundo-lentiformis, bractea calyceque persistentibus ma\- 

 ime acutis involuta, succulenta, unilocularis. Stmen soli- 

 tarium, magnum, subglobosum. Perispermum viride, forma* 

 seminis, hinc rima exaratum. Embryo intra rhnam peri- 

 spermi nidulans, incurvus, teres. 



Ana Parua, p. 88. 

 In this part there is neither description nor drawing. In tin 

 general index we are referred to part vii. p. 83. ; and in the in- 

 dex to the seventh part we are referred for the Ana Parua to the 

 44th table and 83d page; but the Acatsia-l'atli or Cuscut a is 

 described there. Plukenet seems however to have received some 

 further account of this plant than is contained here ; for he says 

 as follows : " Ana-Para (misprinted for Ana-Parua) Ilort. Mai. 

 p. l.f. 88. Poona Cat (Poonce fructus) Malabarorum. Insigne ad 

 venerem incentativum. Mant. 13." And again he says, "Poona 

 Cai Malabarorum magnum est ad venerem incentativum. Mant. 

 143/' This is referred to the third line of page 247 of the Al- 

 magestum, which treats of the Pai-Paroea (Hort. Mai. v. t. 46'.), 

 to which accordingly the Brahmans gave the same name, Ben- 

 darli, that is given to the Ana-Parua ; and Syen has the follow- 

 ing note at the end : " Prima Peroea species in parte prima 

 descripta est nomine Tindce Parua?" We may therefore, I think, 



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