Bassia. polyandria monogynia. 623 



one-petalled. Tube very short. Border of five obliquely 

 obloDg, spreading, smooth segments. Filaments from 

 twenty tothirtj^ short, broad, inserted at the bottom of the 

 tube of the corol. Anthers elavate, opening, with two 

 pores at top. Germ superior, ovate. Style short, three- 

 cleft ; segments long and recurved. Stigmas simple. 

 Berry three-celled, with numerous seeds in each cell, in- 

 serted on large receptacles, rising from the axis. 



BASSIA. Schreh. gen. n. 805. 



Gen. Char. Calyx four or five-leaved. Coro/ one-pe- 

 talled ; border 9ibout eight-cleft. Germ superior, from six 

 to eight-celled, cells one-seeded, attachment interior. Em- 

 bryo erect, no perisperm. 



]. B. longifolia. Willd.2. 842. G(srt. sem. 2. 104. 1. 104. 



Leaves lanceolate. Flowers crowded round the ends 

 of the branchlets, drooping. Stamina from sixteen to 

 tw enty, within the gibbous tube of the corol. 



Tarn. Illupi. 



A native of the peninsula of India, and found in planta- 

 tions along the southern part of the coast of Coromandel. 

 It flowers during the hot month of May, the seed ripens 

 in August and September. 



Trunk pretty straight, and of considerable thickness, 

 but short, in proportion to the size of the tree. Branches 

 numerous, dividing much, and spreading far, forming a 

 very extensive, shady head ; young shoots downy. Leaves 

 crowded about the ends of the branchlets immediately 

 above the peduncles, lanceolate, smooth, entire. Petioles 

 from one to two inches long, round, slightly villous. Sti- 

 pules ensiform, downy, very early caducous. Pedun- 

 cles crowded round the base of the young villous shoots, 

 twenty-three inches long, drooping, one-flowered. The 



