68 pETSTANDRiA DiGYNiA. Chenopodium. 



conical, and closely embraced by the anthers. Berry, the 

 size of a large lemon, subovate, covered with a thick, 

 friable, pretty smooth, brownish yellow cortex, one-celled. 

 Seeds many, nidulent, in a soft, yellowish pulp, which is 

 intermixed with softer cottony flbres ; size, of a small 

 garden bean; shape, various. Integuments two, exterior 

 rather fleshy, and seems to furnish the soft fibres with 

 which the pulp is intermixed ; interior thin and friable. 

 Perisperm none. Embryo ; cotyledons conform to the seed, 

 of a firm, straw colour with a tinge of pink, while fresh ; if 

 wounded, a quantity of milk exudes which soon becomes 

 bad. Caoutchouc. Radicle small, roundish, vaga. 



Every part of the plant on being wounded discharges 

 copiously a very pure white viscid juice which is soon, 

 by exposure to the open air changed into an indifferent 

 kind of elastic rubber, or caoutchouc- The fruit is eaten 

 by the natives where it grows, and is by them reckoned 

 good. 



CHENOPODIUM. Schreb. gen. n. 435. 

 Calyx beneath, five-leaved, or five parted, permanent. 

 Corol none. Seed solitary, covered with a thin mem- 

 brane, and closely embraced by the permanent calyx. 



1. C. album. Willd. 1302. 



Annual, erect, from two to eight feet high. Leaves long- 

 petioled broad, trowel-shaped, obtuse, toward the posterior 

 angles dentate, lobate, mealy. Panicles terminal, erect, 

 contracted, leafy. 



Beng. Betu-sag ; used by the natives for a pot herb. 



It is common in Bengal and many other parts of India. 



2. C. viride. Willd. I. 1303. 



Annual, erect, from two to nine feet high. Leaves long-pe- 

 tioled, narrow trowel-shaped, toward the posterior angles 



