468 | > TETRANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. ` Brucea. 
å. C. capitata, R: 
Heads round, sessile, bracted, with from ten to twenty pentan- 
drous flowers. Calyx and corol papillose, pellucid and white. 
| Hind. and Beng. Algusi. 
A most beautiful, small parasite, found in great abundance grow- 
ing on the lower part of the stems of Crotoluria — during the 
month of February and March. | 
Stems numerous, filiform, smooth, except at. the ns aksit 
grows to the stalks of its supporter, there tuberculate; extent from 
one to two feet high; colour pale yellow. — Leaves none.— Flowers 
from ten to twenty, forming most beautiful, round, sessile, white, pel- 
lucid heads.— Bractes a single one under each head, which is white, 
membranaceous, and oblong.—Calyr and corol five-cleft, swelled 
with pellucid cells, like the Ice-plant.—Nectarial scales, veniform, — 
ciliate.—Stamens five.—Germ two-celled, with two seeds in each, 
attached to the bottom of the cells, Styles two. Stigma simple. 
COLDENIA. Schreb. Gen. N. 233. 
Calyx four-leaved. ^ Coro! infundibuliform. Germ superior, four- 
celled, one-seeded, attachment superior. Nuts four. Embryo in- 
verse, and furnished with a perisperm. 
1. C. procumbens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 712. a3 
A small annual, spreading flat on the ground and in general very 
common on dry rice-fields during the cold season; but never to be 
seen from the beginning of the periodical rains till they are com 
pletely over. : ` ES 
` TETRAGYNIA. 
BRUCEA. Schreb. Gen. N. 1508. 
© Calyx four-parted. Petals ion Germs four, aidad, attach- 
ment inferior. Berries four, superior, one-seeded. Embryo inverse; 
with scarcely any perisperm..: Sometimes a fifth part is added, 
