.7S PKNTANDRiA DiGYNiA. StroemeHa, 



to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta Avhere is grows freely 

 during the hot and rainy season ; but when the cold wea- 

 ther of December and January sets in sharp, it generally 

 loses nearly as much, during those two months, as it gains 

 the rest of the year. It is curious and ornamental on ac- 

 count of the large, lucid, deep green, concave, or ladle- 

 shaped leaves. 



STROEMERIA. Vahl Symh. 1. 19. 



Corol four-pe tailed, or none. Calyx four-leaved. Nec- 

 tary ligulato-infundibuliform. Germ one-celled, many 

 seeded. Berry pedicelled, many-seeded. 



1. S. tetrandra. Willd. 1. 993. 



Shrubby. Leaves linear-oblong. Corol four-petalled ; 

 nectary infundibuliform. Stamina four. 



Cleome fruticosa. Linn. sp. pi. 957. Burm. ind. t. 46. 

 /.3. 



Teling. Chemoorda. 



A large straggling, very ramous shrub ; a native of old 

 walls, dry barren ground, &c. It flowers during the great- 

 er part of the year. 



Stem scarcely any, but woody branches innumerable, 

 with the extremities often drooping. Leaves alternate, 

 short-petioled, oblong, or broad-lanceolate, entire, an 

 inch and a half long. 



Stipules minute. Racemes terminal, few-flowered, 

 downy. Bractes awlcd, solitary. Calyx four-leaved ; 

 leaflets oval, expanding, greenish white. Petals four, long- 

 clawed, equal, oval, waved, sub-erect ; two placed lateral- 

 ly, and two above. Nectary tubular, erect, about as long 

 as the claws of the petals ; inserted into the upper side of 

 the base of the pedicels of the germ, and stamens ; mouth 

 oblique, widening, jagged. Filaments four, awled, ascend- 

 ing, inserted into the middle of the pedicel, or column that 



