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Cyrilla, BIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 115 
tarum, is, that between the fertile stamens, there is’a short 
fifth filament, with a sterile, orange-coloured head. 
The plant, when fresh, has the singular property of ren- 
dering water, or milk, either cold or hot mucilaginous; more 
or less so in proportion to the quantity of the plant used, and 
without altering the taste, colour or smell of the liquid. This 
effect goes off in the course of eight or twelve hours, leaving 
the liquid in its former state. Water rendered mucilaginous 
by this herb is sweetened with sugar, and given when fresh 
made, as a ptisan for the heat of urine in gonorrhaeas by the 
natives on the coast of Coromandel. 
Butter-milk is often sold in the markets in India, and in or- 
der to make a greater profit on their merchandize, they di- 
Jute it with water, and then thicken the whole by turning it 
round a few times with a few fresh leafy branches of this 
plant, which makes the adulterated butter-milk seem rich, 
and of the best sort. 
: CYRILLA. L. Herit. 
Calyx five-leaved, or five-parted. Corol declined, funnel- 
formed ; border five-parted, nearly equal. Gaperte two-cell- 
ed, peracid. 
C. aquatica, Corom, pl. ii. N. 189. 
Annual, Leaves verticelled, lanceolate, three or more 
nerved, serrate, Racemes terminal, recurvate. 
- Teling. Bagga-pattee. 
A very beautiful and uncommonly curious plant, a native 
of the borders of pools, &c. of standing water, ar and 
flowering i in the wet and cold seasons, 
_ Root creeping, annual. Stems erect, one or two feet high, 
‘round, jointed, a little hairy. Leaves, the lower ones, and 
they are generally under water, verticelled, number in the — 
verticel | ‘uncertain, pinnatifid; division filiform, above water 
they ‘are three-fold, sessile, broad-lanceolate, from three to 
-seven-nerved, , serrate, smooth, Lacemes terminal, drooping, 
a _verticelled, nee ce a | Braetes three-fold, cordate, or 
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