Poths. •I'£TRANI>RIA MOWO&YNIA. 453 



tifitations wliicli every where cover it. — Terianth none. — Co/oZ none* 

 — -Fi'arjients; 1 conclude tlieie are about eight to each germ, two 

 cu each face; but the want of both periautii and corol, renders it 

 difficult to assign the exact number of stamens to each floret, they 

 are very short, and stem inserled on the base of the germ. Aiilhers 

 sub-sagitale, tour-lobed. Germs numerous, parallelepiped, trun- 

 cate, vertical!}' attached to, anJ completely covering every part of 

 . the common c)lindric receptacle, one-celled, with one seed attach- 

 ed ill an oblique manner to the bottom of the cell. The substance 

 of the gernjs is rei;lele wiih rigid, sharp, verticu! bristles, which are 

 readily detached, and stick m the skin, causing pain and itching. The 

 virtue of the drug may reside in these, as it does in llie short stift 

 L^airs of tiie legumes of Carpopogon pruritus. St^/e none. Sligma, 

 a cliannel filled with gelatinous matter, running from the cell ot the 

 oerin to the centre of the truncate aoex, where it ends in a small 

 slit, embraced by two darker-coloured, soii.evvhat callous lips. — Pe- 

 ricarps (capsii/cc circumsdsi(E)j as numerous as the germs, and 

 of the same form, only larger; a few only are fertile, of a soft fltshy 

 texture, one-celled, one-valved ; when the fruit is lipe they detach 

 themselves frouj the receptacle, and drop off, leaving the seed be- 

 hind still attached to xX.—Seed single, ovate-cordate, somewhat two- 

 lobed, covered at tiie base with a thin, red, succulent aiil. Integu- 

 ments two, exclusive of the aril, exterior pale yellow, polished, thin^ 

 hard, and elastic ; in)ier membranaceous. Perisperni none. £//;- 

 bruu uncinate, white, very succulent. Radicle inferior, thickened, 

 and in other respects exactly as in Gasrtner's figures of Fotaaagctott 

 nutans, vol. ii. p. 23. t. 84. 



Ohs. The plant described by Sir William Jones by the name of 

 Guj-peepul, {see Asiatic Researches, vol. iv. p. 303.) is my Tetran- 

 ikera apetala. He, however observes, that it was from a native gar- 

 dener he obtained the Sanscrit name of his plant, but as he mention* 

 that Valli means a creeper^ he suspects in some degree, the accuracy 

 @f his information. 



