58 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Chenopodium, 
conical, and closely embraced by the anthers. Berry, the 
size of a large lemon, subovate, covered with a thick, 
friable, pretty smooth, brownish yellow cortex, one-celled. 
Seeds many, nidulent, in a soft, yellowish pulp, which is 
intermixed with softer cottony fibres; size, of a small 
garden bean; shape, various. Integuments two, exterior 
rather fleshy, and seems to furnish the soft fibres with 
which the pulp is intermixed ; interior thin and friable. — 
Perisperm none. Embryo ; cotyledons conform to the seed, 
of a firm, straw colour with a tinge of pink, while fresh ; if 
- wounded, a quantity of milk exudes which soon becomes 
bad..Caoutchouc. Radicle small, roundish, vaga, 
Every part of the plant on being wounded discharges 
copiously a very pure white viscid juice which is soon, 
by exposure to the open air changed into an indifferent 
kind of elastic rubber, or caoutchouc. The fruit is eaten 
by the natives where it grows, and is by them reckoned 
good, 
CHENOPODIUM. Schreb. gen. n. 435. 
_ Calyx beneath, five-leaved, or five-parted, permanent. 
Corol none. Seed solitary, covered with a thin mem- 
brane, and closely embraced by the permanent calyx, 
1. C. album. Willd. 1302, 
- Annual, erect, from two to eight feet high. pp at “st 
petioled broad, trowel-shaped, obtuse, toward the posterior 
angles dentate, lobate, mealy, Panis fonpinak, erect, 
- contracted, leafy. 
Beng. Betu-sag ; used by the natives for a pot herb. 
It is common in Bengal and many other parts of India. 
2. C. viride, Willd. 1. 1303. 
Annual, erect, from two to nine feet high, Sains sales ‘4 
tioled, narrow trowel-shaped, toward the posterior angles 
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