448 tp.trandria DiGYNiA. Coldenia. 



segments. Filaments five, inserted a little below the fissures 

 of (lie corol. Germ round. Styles two. Stigma headed. 

 Capsules two-celled. Seeds solitary. 



4. C. capitata. R. 



Heads round, sessile, bracted, with from ten to twenty pen- 

 tandrous flowers. Calyx and corol papillose, pellucid and 

 white. 



Hind, and Bene/. Alguei. 



A most beautiful, small parasite, found in great abundance 

 growing on the lower part of the stems of Crotolaria Juncea, 

 during the month of February and March. 



Stems numerous, filiform, smooth, except at the parts where 

 it grows to the stalks of its supporter, there tuberculate; ex- 

 tent from one to two feet high ; colour pale yellow. Leaves 

 none. Flowers from ten to twenty, forming- most beautiful, 

 round, sessile, white, pellucid heads. Bractes a single one un- 

 der each head, which is white, membranaceous, and oblong'. 

 Calyx and corol five-cleft, swelled with pellucid cells, like the 

 Ice-plant. Nectarial scales reniform, ciliate. Stamens five. 

 Germ two celled,with two seeds in each, attached to the bot- 

 tom of the cells. Styles two. Stigma simple. 



COLDENIA. Schrcb. gen. N. 233. 



Calyx four-leaved. Corol infundibuliform. Genu superi- 

 or, four-celled, one-seeded, attachment superior. Nuts four. 

 Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. C. proenmbens. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 712. 



A small annual, spreading - fiat on the ground, and in gene- 

 ral very common on dry rice-fields during the cold season; 

 but never to be seen from the beginning of the periodical rains 

 till they are completely over. 



