344 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



run almoft the whole length of the leaf, in a 

 flrait line. The calyx is monophyllous, cam- 

 paniform, or bell-fhaped, quadrifid, with four 

 oblong, fliarp fegments, which are fomewhat 

 downy on the out fide ; in each incifion is a 

 fquanmln, with hair on its margin. The corol- 

 la conutta of four upright, oval, red petals : 

 the/lamina are eight in number, narrow, in- 

 flected, and, together with the petals, fattened 

 to the calyx : they are the fame length with 

 the calyx, and are accordingly fhorter than the 

 petals: the anther a are upftanding, oblong, 

 and end in a point which looks like the calyp- 

 tra of a mofs. The' pijtillum has' an oval ger- 

 men, a narrow and bemjiylus, and a fliort en- 

 tire jU?wa : the capful a looks like a little pot, 

 runs narrower towards the bottom ; is quadri- 

 locular, and on the outfide covered with the 

 tube of the calyx. The feeds are numerous, 

 fmall, and in a microfcope look like little 

 worms, which lie in a circular form. 



Coming down the hill between the rice 

 fields, we few, in a field which was partly co- 

 vered with water, Impatiens Ghinenjis, which, 

 it taken particular care of, might be made ro 

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