728 MONOECIA GYNANDRIA, Andrachne. 
Male peduncles sub-axillary, solitary or with a female pedun- 
cle, slender, rather shorter than the petioles, bearing at the 
apex several sessile, small, yellow flowers. Calyx and corol 
as in the genus. Filaments three, very short, inserted into the 
middle of the tube of the calyx. Anthers three, simple, obo- 
vate, sub-sessile, Female peduncles sub-axillary, solitary, or 
with a male peduncle, and about the same length, one-flow- 
ered, slender, smooth. Calyx, corol and pistil as in the ge- 
nus. Berry oblong, very smooth, slightly marked, while im- 
mature, having ten longitudinal stripes ; when ripe of an uni- 
form blackish « olive colour, nearly an inch long, and about a 
third thereof in diameter, three-celled, with cua small red, 
flat, ovate seeds in each. 
7. B, laciniosa. Willd, iv. 624. 
Leaves palmate. Petioles muricate. Male flowers fas- 
cicled; the female solitary in the same axill. Berries sphe- 
rical, smooth, three-celled. Seeds many, with a pulpy aril, 
callous margins, and gibbous, callous sides. 
_ Nehoemeka. Rheed, Mal. viii. t. 19, 
Hind, Gargoo naroo. 
Common in hedges, and aniong bushes in the warmer parts 
of India, and in blossom the greatest part of the year. 
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MONOECIA GYNANDRIA. 
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ae ANDRACHNE. Sheed. gen. N. 1483. 
- Male ealyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled, or fone. 
Stamina five, inserted on the abortive style. Female calyx 
five-leaved. Corol none. Germ superior, three-celled ; cells 
two-seeded ; attachment superior. Styles three. Capsule 
berried, dhincosbelledis cells from one to two-seeded. . Em- 
bryo inverse, and fashiialaed with a perisperm. 
. A, trifoliata, Roxb, | 
Arboreous, Leaves ternate. Flowers panicled. 
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