104 PENTANDRIA TRlGYNIA. Basella. 



want of the nectary or corol forbid my considering it 

 as even a species of that genus. I have repeatedly exa- 

 mined the flowers of different plants at different periods 

 and places without ever being able to discover any thing 

 like a corol or nectary, so that I must consider this a 

 non-descript or GUnus lotoides itself, and that the former 

 descriptions thereof have been inaccurate. 



BASELLA. Schreh. gen. n. 520. 



Calyx seven-cleft, with the two opposite divisions 

 broader ; at last it produces a berry. Seed one. 



B. alba. Willd. 1. 1514. 



Perennial, twining. Leaves cordate, smooth, entire, 

 fleshy. 



Batsalla hura, or Matto-batsalla, are its Teliuga names 

 when cultivated ; and AUa-batsalla, when wild. 



Vol, the Bengalee, and Hindoo name of the cultivated 

 variety and bun-pot when wild. 



Gandola alba. Rumph. amb. 5. p. 417. 



The natives of the Coromandel coast reckon five varie- 

 ties of this ; three of these are cultivated, and two wild ; 

 the wild sorts are, 



1st. yerra,or Poha- batsalla, the Telinga name of the 

 red wild Batsalla. 



Rifcta bun-poi of the Bengalees. 



Basella rubra. Willd. 1. 1513. 



Gandola rubra. Rumph. amb. 5. 417. 1. 154. /• 2. bad. 



Is found wild in hedges, &c. twining round other plants 

 to a considerable extent, the stems, and branches smooth, 

 as thick as a quill, and deeply tinged red. 



2nd. AUa-batsalla, above mentioned, grows with the 

 last in hedges, and difiers from it only in the colour of the 

 stems, and branches ; here they are always pale green. 



