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the flamina : the germen is almoff. round {cb* 

 roiundum) : thcflyJm is pointed and bent at 

 top : the fttyma undivided : the feed caffula 

 is an a! moil round urceolated berry, which is 

 black without, but red within, and is fur- 

 rounded by a fetiferous calyx. The feeds are 

 Tumorous, very final 1, almoft in form of rings, 

 and difperfed in the berry. The plant is 

 buihy: the root is ramofe, creeping : the Jlalk 

 is round, and lies on the ground : the leaves 

 are ova!, a little em.irginared. trinervous, op- 

 pofite, and petiohited : the flowers are on the 

 top of the branches. I found another plant 

 here, the flowers of which, by a curfory 

 view, was like the' preceding; though it is 

 quite different from all the other genera : in 

 the natural order it is like the Lyfimachia y and 

 the Chinefe call it Komm-Heyong-loaa , or Fea- 

 ther of Goldrofes. Sir Charles a Linne, think- 

 ing that my labours defer ved fome remem- 

 brance, has thought fit to call this plant Of 

 beckia Chinenjis [See Tab. ii. f. i, 2. 3.]. 

 The whole plant is fold in the apothecaries 

 fhops; they boil it together with old Kuli- 

 'ica i and drink the decodlion in colics. In 

 ftrains and fvvellings it is ufed in the bath. 

 The following are the characleriilics of the 

 jJant: 



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