104 PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Basella. 
want of the nectary or corol forbid my considering it 
as even a species of that genus. I have repeatedly exa- 
mined the flowers of different plants at different periods 
and places without ever being able to discover any thing 
like a corol or nectary, so that I must consider this a 
non-descript or Glinus lotoides itself, and that the former 
descriptions thereof have been inaccurate. 
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BASELLA. Schreb. gen. n. 520. 
Calyx seven-cleft, with the two opposite divisions 
broader ; at last it produces a berry. Seed one. 
B. alba. Willd. 1. 1514. 
Perennial, twining. Leaves cordate, smooth, entire, 
fleshy. 
Batsalla hura, or Matto-batsalla, are its Telinga names 
when cultivated ; and Alla-batsalla, when wild. 
Poi, the ea and Hindoo name of the cultivated 
variety and bun-poit when wild. 
Gandola alba. Rumph. amb. 5, p. 417. 
The natives of the Coromandel coast reckon five varie< 
ties of this ; three of these are cultivated, and two wild ; 
the wild ee are, 
Ist. Yerra,or Poha-batsalla, the ‘Telinga name of the 
red wild Batsalla. 
Ructa bun-poi of the Bengalees. 
Basella rubra. Willd. 1.1513. | 
Gandola rubra. Rumph. amb. 5. 417. t. 154. f- 2. bad. 
Is found wild in hedges, &c. twining round other plants 
to a considerable extent, the stems, and branches smooth, 
as thick as a quill, and deeply tinged red. 
d. Alla-batsalla, above mentioned, grows with the | 
last in hedges, and differs from ito in the colour of the 
stems, and branches ; here they are always pale green, 
