78 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Stroemeria. 
to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta where is grows freely 
during the hot and rainy season; but when the cold wea- 
ther of December and January sets in sharp, it generally 
loses nearly as much, during those two months, as it gains 
the rest of the year. It is curious and ornamental on ac- 
count of the large, lucid, deep green, concave, or ladle- 
shaped leaves. 
STROEMERLA. Vahl. Symb. 1. 19. 
Corol four-petalled, or none. Calyx four-leaved. Nec- — 
tary ligulato-infundibuliform. | Germ one-celled,, many 
seeded. Berry pedicelled, many-seeded. oe 
1. S. tetrandra. Willd. 1. 993. 
Shrubby. Leaves linear-oblong. Corol Siniedinces: ; 
nectary infundibuliform, Stamina four. 
Cleome fruticosa, Linn. sp. Pi. 057 maine ind. €. 46, 
Sioa Higiigaais 
Teling. chown Pe aHieviletney Teme Saas 
A large straggling, very ramous iadly: a Aaitem, of old 
walls, dry barren ground, &c. It flowers during the great: 
er part of the year. 
Stem scarcely any, but woody branches innumerable, — 
with the extremities often drooping. Leaves alternate, 
short-petioled, oblong, or broad-lanceolate, entire, an 
inch and a half long. peo 
Stipules minute. Racemes terminal, few-flowered, 
downy. Bractes awled, solitary. Calyx four-leaved ; 
leaflets oval, expanding, greenish white. Petals four, long- 
clawed, equal, oval, waved, sub-erect ; two placed lateral- 
ly, and two above. Nectary tubular, erect, about as long 
as the claws of the petals ; inserted into the upper side of 
the base of the pedicels of the germ, and stamens ; mouth 
oblique, widening, jagged. Filaments four, awled, ascend- 
_ ing, inserted into the middle of the pedicel, or column that 
