ae lt TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Pothos. 
ing the spathe; colour a pale greenish yellow, dotted with 
the dark-coloured stigmas of the numerous fructification 
which ‘every where covered it. Perianth none. | Coro none. 
Filaments ; 1 conclude there are about eight to each germs 
two on each face; but the want of both perianth and corol, 
renders it difficult to assion the exact number of stamens to 
each floret, they are very short, and seem inserted on the base 
of the germ. Avnihers sub-sagjttate, four-lobed. Germ ‘nu- 
merous, parallelopiped, truncate, vertically attached to, and 
— completely covering every part of the common cylindric ‘re- 
ceptacle, one-celled, with one seed attached in .an oblique 
manner to the bottom of the cell. The substance of the germ 
is replete with rigid, sharp; vertical bristles, which are readi- 
ly detached, and stick in the skin, causing pain and itching. 
The virtue of the drug may reside in these, as it does in the 
short stiff hairs of the legumes of Carpopogon pruriens.. Style 
none, Stigma, a channel filled with gelatinous matter;:run+ 
ning from the cell of the germ to the centre of the trunicate 
apex, Where it ends ina snail slit, embraced by two darker- 
coloured, somewhat callous lips, Pericarps (capsule circum= 
scisse@ ), as numerous as the germs, and of the same*form, 
only larger; ‘a few only are fertile, of a soft fleshy texture, 
one-celled, oneévalved ; when the fruit is ripe they detach 
themselves from the receptacle, and drop off, leaving the sealt 
behind still attached to it, Seed single, ovate-cordate,some- 
what two lobed, covered at the base with a thin, red, succu- 
lent aril. Intequments two, exclusive of mene aeetiaigett 
yellow, polished, thin, hard, and elastic; inner’ 
ous. Perisperm none. Embryo uncinate, white, very suceu- 
lent. Radicle inferior, thickened, and in other respects ex- 
actly as in Geertner’s figures of a ss ited il, 
P- 23. t, 84." , bie ats ae 
Obs. The plant desetibed by Sir William Jones pn 
nam “oti and (See Asiatic Researches, volt iv: sec gars | 
