114 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMI A. PedttUum, 



mous, with a flower in the fork ; divisiotis from three to six- 

 flowered, all very villous. Flowers large, like those of ^ar- 

 tinia dkmdra ; colour a mixture of whitish red, tinged with 

 yellow. One pair of the^/«men«s slender, and abortive; the 

 other thick and villous, with large, two-lobed anthers, with- 

 out any thing like a spur, or arista. The capsules are not 

 above one-third, or one-fourth the length of I. parasitica, 

 but rather thicker ; and the seeds are flat and winged w^ith a 

 membranaceous margin all round. 



PEDALIUM. Schreb. gen. N. 1067- 

 Calyx five-parted. Corol sub-equal, with border five- 

 cleft. Jfut corky, four-cornered, thorny on the angles, two- 

 celled. Seeds two-fold. 



P. miirex. Willd, iii. 401. 



Teliny. Yeauaga-pabiar. 



Cuca-mullu. Rheed. Mai. x. t. 72. 



Tam. Anci-nerunshil. 



A pretty large, succulent, raraous, annual plant, growing 

 every where, but chiefly near the sea on the coast of Coro- 

 niandel, where there is a tolerably moist, sandy soil, w hich 

 it deliohts in. Flowering time, the rainy and cold seasons. 



Root annual, ramous, of a deep orange colour. Stem scarce- 

 ly any. Branches nearly opposite, spreading, with their ex- 

 tremities erect, round, and smooth ; from six to twenty-four 

 inches long. Leaves opposite, petioled, oval, irregularly 

 dentate, truncate, three-nerved, pretty smooth ; from two to 

 three inches long, by one and a half or two inches broad. Pe- 

 tioles channelled, about two inches long. Flowers axillary, 

 short-peduncled, single, pretty large, yellow, erect ; on each 

 side of their insertion, is a small, round, brown gland. Bractes 

 no other than the above-mentioned glands. 



All that 1 can add to the description in the Genera plan- 



