672 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. CallJcailthllS. 



nal, lower leaves petioled, three-parted, and ternate, with 

 segments divided above, they are sessile, ternate and 

 simple; stamens twenty; seeds smooth. 



A native of Bengal, where it appears in shady places 

 during the cold season. Root fibrous, annual. Stem 

 erect, above very ramous, smooth, piped, about one and 

 a half or two feet high. Leaves below petioled, three-part- 

 ed and ternate, with leaflets divided above, sessile, ter- 

 nate and simple, with leaflets linear lanceolate ; all are 

 smooth on both sides. Stipules membranaceous. Flowers 

 terminal, and from the divisions of the branchlets forming 

 nearly an umbel, small and yellow. Calyx spreading, 

 a little woolly outwardly. Nectaries, about twenty. Seeds 

 sessile on a cylindric receptacle, oval, laterally compress- 

 ed, with a pointed top. 



CALYCANTHUS. Schreb. gen. n. 870. 

 Grn. Char. Calyx imbricated, squamous ; corol many- 

 petalled. Germs several, one-celled, one-seeded ; attach- 

 ments inferior. 



C. pr(Bcox. Wifld. 2. 1120. Bot. Mag. 466. 

 Leaves opposite, from lanceolate to ovate, oblong ;floiv- 

 ers axillary, solitary, sub sessile ; inner petals smaller. 



Ohai. Kcempf. amoen. 878. t. 899. 



From China this sweet smelling, rigid shrub has been 

 received into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it 

 blossoms during the months of December, January and 

 February, at which time it is nearly destitute of leaves, 

 for they are deciduous in Bengal during the cold season. 



