Siegesbeckia. | POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 439 
— In tattooing, the natives after puncturing the skin, rub the 
juicy green leaves of this plant over the part; which gives 
the desired indelible colour, viz. a deep bluish black. 
SIEGESBECKIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1320. 
Receptacle chaffy. Pappus none; extertor calyx five- 
leaved. | 
1. S. orientalis. Willd, ini, 2219. 
Annual, erect; branches dichotomous or. trichotomous. 
Leaves opposite, from triangularly ovate, to lanceolate, the 
larger obtusely laciniate. Peduncles from the fork of the 
branches, one-flowered. 
A native of the Moluccas, — 
This has the inversely pyramidal, tubercled, brown, bald 
seed of Geertner’s plant, which induces me to think it is his, 
though the leaves do not agree. 
2. 8. brachiata. Roxb. 
Annual, erect, brachiate, ultimately dichotomous. Leaves 
opposite, petioled, triangularly cordate, = serrate, pee 
_ lyx longer than the florets. b 
An annual, a native of the moist vallies among the Circar 
mountains, Flowering time the cold season. 
Stem erect, round, piped, branchy, downy. Branches cross- 
armed, stem-like ; the whole height about four feet. Leaves 
opposite, petioled, cordate, coarsely ‘serrate, running down 
the petiole, very soft, downy ; the longer ones are from four to 
five inches long, and three broad. Flowers terminal, small, 
yellow. Leaflets of the common exterior calyx, wedge-form- 
ed, increasing in length till the seeds are ripe; on the outside 
glutinous bulbs. Hermaphrodite florets ten, shorter than the 
calyx ; five of which stand in the disk; the other adie i 
- alternate with the five female florets i in the ~ 
they have simple baits; and on the inside they end in green 
