Saponaria. DECANDRIA DIGYNIA, 445 
3. T. obcordata, R. 
Stems prostrate. Leaves opposite, mltemintals larger 
and obcordate, smaller and oblong. Flowers solitary. 
Stamens from fifteen to twenty, Style single. Capsules 
_ Many-seeded. 
Swet-sabuni the Hindee name of the pale variety, and 
Lal-sabuni the reddish. 
Teling. Yurra-galjeror, or Bodo-pail-kura. 
It delights in old. gardens, rubbish, &c.. It flowers all 
the year round. : 
Root long, perennial, Stems many, diffuse,: dichoto- © 
mous, round, jointed, coloured, a little downy on the up- 
per side, Leaves opposite, petioled, obcordate, smooth, 
waved, with a reddish margin, alternately smaller, the 
large one being more than an inch each way, and the 
smaller one less than an inch long and narrow. Pe- 
tioles winged, concaye, uniting and clasping the stem, 
forming a cup with two lateral stipulary, or calyx like 
processes for the flower. Flowers solitary, sessile in the 
divisions of the branches, Calyx no other than the pro- 
cesses of the united petioles. Corol as in the genus. Sta- 
mens from fifteen or twenty in our Indian plant. Germ 
totally superior, turbinate. Style single, shorter than the 
stamens. Capsule oblique truncate, circumcised. Seeds 
many, reniform, black, rough. Receptacle a line running 
along the upper side of the bottom of the capsule. 
The leaves and tender stops are eaten by the natives. 
SAPONARLIA. Schreb. gen. n. 769. 
~ Calyx tubulous, naked, five-toothed, permanent. Corol 
of five, long-clawed petals. Capsule superior, one-celled. 
Seeds many. 
_S. perfoliata. | ee 
-s Calgon iitlicads five-keeled. Stem erect, to-forked. 
