572 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gordotlia. 



Annual. Leaves stem-clasping, spinous. Capsule 

 five-valved. 



Beng. Bura sheal kanta. 



A common weed byroad sides, &c. throughout India; 

 it blossoms and ripens its seed during the dry season. 



GOJRDONIA. Schreh. gen. n. 1144. 



Gen. Char. Calyx five-leaved, or five-cleft. Petals 

 five, inserted on the base of the united filaments. Germ 

 superior, five-celled ; cells from two to three-seeded ; 

 attachment m\.cx\or. Crt/jsu/^s superior, five-celled. Seeds 

 winged. Embryo inferior, ceiJtripetal, with scanty peris- 

 perm. 



Note. Notwithstanding the union of the ring formed 

 by the filaments, and the malvaceous structure of the seed 

 vessel and seed, I am for the present induced to place this 

 genus in the class Polyandria. 



1. G. integri folia. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves broad-lanceolar, entire, acuminate. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, one, two, or three-flowered. 

 Capsules spherical. 



Hind. Makrisal. 



A large timber tree, a native of the hilly tracts on the 

 eastern frontier of Bengal, where it flowers in April and 

 the seed ripens in December. 



2. G. ohlata. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves broad-lanceolar, serrate, acute, co- 

 riaceous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, long, one-flowered. 

 Capsules oblate spheriodical, with two or more seeds in 

 each cell. 



A tree, a native of Pulo Penang, where it was discover- 

 ed by Dr. William Hunter. 



