88 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Avicmma, 



GmeliDa coromandelica. Burm. Flor. In. p. 32. 



Is common in forests, and uncultivated places all over the 

 coast. Flowering- time October and November. 



It differs from asiatica in the following respects. 



1st, This is always a smaller plant, with much smaller 

 leaves, although growing together on one spot, which is com- 

 mon. 2nd. The throns are more numerous, and always pre- 

 sent. 8rd. The racemes are terminal. 4/A. The leaves have 

 the quality of thickening cold water like those of Pedalium 

 vinrex, and Menispermnm hirsutum. The flowers and fruit 

 are in both the same. 



The natives employ the water impregnated with the gela- 

 tinous qualify of the leaves as a ptisan for the cure of the heat 

 of uinie in gonorrhoea. Water is also rendered glutinous by 

 the leaves of P. murcx, by only turning- them round in it, but 

 the water soon returns to its original state. The leaves of this 

 plant, G. parvij'olm, must be gently bruised with the hand 

 in the water and it remains mucilaginous (ill decomposed by 

 fermentation. 



AVICENNIA. Schreh. gen. N. 1063. 



Calyx five-leaved, or five-parted. Corol bilabiate ; vpper 

 lip emarginate ; the under one three-parted, reflexed. Capsule 

 leathery, cordate, one-seeded. 



A. iomentosa. Willd. iii. 395. 



Arboreous. Leaves opposite, obovate, hoary underneath. 



Bontia germinans. Linn. sp. 891. 



Beng, Bina. 



Oepata. Rheed. Mai. iv. #.45. 



Is common in India, in low places near the mouths of ri- 

 vers, where the spring-tides rise. Flowering time the hot sea- 

 son. In the Soondur-bun, i. e. the lower part of the Delta, of 

 the Ganges, it grows to be a tree of considerable magnitude, 

 the wood of which serves the natives for various economical 



