114 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, Pedalium. 
mous, with a flower in the fork ; divisions from three to six- 
flowered, all very villous. Flowers large, like those of Mar- 
tinia diandra; colour amixture of whitish red, tinged with 
yellow. One pair of the filaments slender, and abortive; the 
other thick and villous, with large, two-lobed anthers, with- 
out any thing like a spur, or arista. The capsules are not 
above one-third, or one-fourth the length of I. parasitica, 
but rather thicker ; and the seeds are flat and winged witha 
membranaceous margin all round. 
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PEDALIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1067. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol sub-equal, with border five- 
cleft. Nut corky, four-cornered, hope: 2 on Se analess two- 
celled. Seeds iwostaidhs ae - 
Ps murex. _ Willd. iil. 401. 
Teling. Yeanaga-pabiar. 
Cuca-mullu. Rheed, Mal. x. t. 72, 
Tam. Anci-nerunshil. ; 
_A pretty large, succulent, ramous, annual plant, rowing 
every where, but chiefly near the sea on the coast of Coro- 
mandel, where there, is a tolerably moist, sandy soil, which 
it delights in, Flowering time, the rainy and cold seasons. 
Root annual, ramous, e 2 a deep orange colour, Stem scarce- 
ly any. Branches nearly opposite, spreading, with their ex- 
tremities erect, round, and smooth ; from six to twenty-four ae 
‘inches long. Leaves opposite, petioled, oval, irregularly 
dentate, truncate, three-nerved, pretty smooth; from two to 
three inches long, by one and a half or two inches broad. Pe- 
tioles channelled, about two inches long. Flowers axillary, 
short-peduncled, single, pretty large, yellow, erect ; on each 
side of their i insertion, is a small, round, brown gland, | Bractes 
no other than the above-mentioned glands, gre 23 2 
All that I can add to the description i in the Genera pie 
