Celtis. | PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 63 
curries, kc. The leaves of this plant alone, the natives 
say, saved many thousand lives during the late famine 
of 1791, 2, and3: for while the plant lasted, most of the 
poorer classes who lived near the sea, had little else to 
eat, 
GOMPHRENA. Schreb. gen. n. 441. 
Calyx coloured, exterior, three-leayed ; leaflets two, 
converging, keeled. Petals five. Nectary cylindric, five- 
toothed, Style half two-cleft. Capsules one-sceded, 
* 1, G. globosa. Willd. 1. 1321. | 
Annual, at first erect, by age diffuse. Leaves oyate- 
lanceolate. Heads solitary. Peduncles two-leayed. 
_ Sans. Amlana. 
Hind. Lal idaho the crimson Soncied. va- 
riety, Suffet gool-makhmiul, the white flowered. 3 
Flos globosus. Rumph. amb. 5. t. 100 f. 2. 
Wadapu. Rheed. mal. 10. t. 37. 
InGardens over India where it blossoms during the 
rainy and cold season, native place uncertain, 
, 
CELTIS. Schreb. gen. n. 1591. 
_Pouycamous, HERMAPHRODITE. Calyx ae leaved, 
Corol. none. Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded, 
attachment superior 2 Drupe one-seeded, Embryo | trans- 
versely 1 inverse, with scanty Pperisperm, — : 
MALE. Calyx five-six-parted. Cor ag Pe ieas, LE. 
- Calyx five-six-parted. Drews and embryo as in the her- 
Pepa 
Be pay ST wea 
aad 1008 obliquely ovate, lanceolate, oe cuspi | 
th. Flowers axillary, triple, tetrandrous. sae 
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