470 TETRANDRIA TETRAGYNIA- Myriophyllim. * 
integument.— Embryo as long as the perisperm, straight, inverse. 
Cotyledons oval, fleshy. Plumula two-lobed. . Radicle oud, 
superior. 
Obs. Since I first described this dh and balyi from plánithat 
“were completely hermaphrodite I have found:some plants. perfectly 
male, and others as completely female. In this. plaut, therefore, we 
have auother instance of Trioicous Polygamy. "T 
From the sensible qualities of the green parts of this plasta jiz 
somewhat fcetid, and simply, though intensely bitter, it promises to be 
„a5 good ah antedysenterical medicine as Bruce’s Abyssinian Woojinos 
itself. As soon as the plants arrive at greater maturity the bark 
„hall be tried, and compared with Angustura bark which has by 
some been thought that of Brucea antedysenterica of Bruce's Tras 
wels, &e. vol. v. p. 69. also of I. F. Miller, Tab. 95, aud still better 
destribed and figured by Li. Heritier under the name Brucea ferru- 
ginea, Stirp. Nov. 19. t. 10. See also Linn. Sp. Pl.ed. Will. ie. 142. 
MYRIOP HYLLUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 1440. 
Calyx four-parted. ^ Coro! four-petalled. ^ Style noné; stigmas 
four. ^ Seeds four, naked. Embryo inverse. ` ^Ó— 
` I. M. tetrandrum, R. | 
"Leaves verticilled, all Gliforizpinhatifid.- Flowers axillary, verti- 
€illed, tetrandrous. Calyr four-leaved. — 
Compare with Hottonia sessiliflora, Linn. Sp. TL ed. Wi lid.i i 813. 
Teling. Neerla-pamarum. inn: M. 
Tt grows in sweet water ; ; appearing during the rains, sg ot zit p. 
~ Stems round, articulate, ‘spongy below the water, length various i 
above the iiie from four to six inches, about. the thickness. of 
crow-quill.— Leaves vertiéilled, pinnatifid, below the water ey 
"re much larger, with capillary segments; above the water they are 
small.— Flowers very small, white, verticilled, i. e. one in "the axil of 
each leaf.—Calyr above, four-leaved ; Leaflets eee T. dali 
Tour, big M heu agus than the Aent ct. ih 
