448 TETRANDRIA DIGYNIA, Coldenia, 
segments. Filaments five, inserted a little below the fissures 
of the corol, Germ round. Styles two, Stigma headed. 
Capsules two-celled, Seeds solitary, 
a: C. capitata, R. : 
Heads round, sessile, bracted, with from ten to twenty pen- 
tandrous flowers. Calyx and corol papillose, pellucid and 
white, 7 
Hind, and Beng. Algusi. 
A most beautiful, small parasite, found in great Mhatlddoce 
growing on the lower part of the stems of Crotolaria ik ig 
during the month of February and March, 
Siems numerous, filiform, smooth, except at the parts where 
it grows to the stalks of its supporter, there tuberculate ; ex- 
tent from one to two feet high; colour pale yellow. Leaves 
none. Flowers from ten to twenty, forming most beautiful, 
round, sessile, white, pellucid heads. Bractes asingle one un- 
der each head, which is white, membranaceous, and oblong, 
Calyx and corol five-cleft, swelled with pellucid cells, like the 
Ice-plant. _Nectarial scales reniform, ciliate. Stamens five, 
Germ two-celled,with two seeds in each, attached to the - 
tom of the cells. Styles two, Stigma simple. 
COLDENIA. Schreb. gem NY. 233, 
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| pi inverse, and furnished witha Tg 
1. C. procumbens. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, Rey fp Ae Da 
_. Asmall annual, spreading flat on the ground, and in | gene- 
ral very common on dry rice-fields during the cold. seasons 
_-but never to be seen Figen the bepipaieg pf the agent 
they are prety over, e 
