Celtis. PENTANDRIA DIGVNIA. 63 



curries, &c. The leaves of this plant alone, the natives 

 say, saved many thousand lives during the late famine 

 of 1791, 2, and 3: for while the plant lasted, most of the 

 poorer classes who lived near the sea, had little else to 

 eat. 



GOMPHRENA. Schreb. gen. n. 441. 



Calyx coloured, exterior, three-leaved ; leaflets two, 

 converging, keeled. Petals five. Nectary cylindric, five- 

 toothed. Style half two-cleft. Capsules one-seeded. 



1 . G. globosa. Willd. 1. 1321. 



Annual, at first erect, by age difi'use. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate. Heads solitary. Peduncles two-leaved. 



Sans. Anilana. 



Hind. Lai gool-makhmul, the crimson flowered va- 

 riety. Suffet gool-makhmul, the white flowered. 



Flos globosus. Rumph. amb. 5. 1. 100/. 2. 



Wadapu. Rheed. mal. 10, t. 37. 



In Gardens over India where it blossoms during the 

 rainy and cold season, native place uncertain. 



CELTIS. Schreb. gen. n. 1591. 



Polygamous, Hermaphrodite. Calyx five leaved. 

 Carol none. Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded, 

 attachment superior. Drupe one-seeded. Embryo trans- 

 versely inverse, with scanty perisperni. 



Male. Ca^ya; five-six-parted. Coro/ none. Female. 

 Calyx five-six-parted. Drupe and embryo as in the her- 

 maphrodite. 



C. tetrandra. R. 



Leaves obliquely ovate, lanceolate, serrate, cuspidate, 

 smooth. Flowers axillary, triple, tetrandrous. 



