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dvated in the warmer parts of Asia. It is annual, and in a 

 good soil grows generally to be about three or four feet high, 

 I never found it in a wild state. 



My figure of this plant, called S. indicum by Linnseus, is 

 the Krishna til of the Hindoos, I can at most make only a va- 

 riety of this species; It is larger, more ramous, the stem and 

 branches tinged with a rusty, reddish colour ; the leaves a 

 darker green ; but in situation and structure the same. The 

 flowers are deeper tinged with red, and the seed darker co- 

 loured. Both are <lescribed by Runij)hiiis, p. 204. &c. of 

 the 5th volume of his Herharium Amhoinense. Fig. 1. t. 76. 

 of the same volume is a tolerable diminished figure of this va- 

 riety. Their greatest difference, however, appears in the seed, 

 and harvest time. 



The former, S. orientale, is sown in Bengal in February, 

 and the crop got in three months afterwards, so that the dews, 

 and the little remaining moisture of the earth, are the only 

 sources of humidity by which it can benefit, as this is in gene- 

 ral a period of drought. S. indicum is sown on high places, 

 about the beginning of the rains, June; and the crop cut down 

 in September. 



BIGNONIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1018. 

 Calyx various. Coral, with the throat campanulate, and 

 a five-cleft border. Germ superior, two-celled ; cells many- 

 seeded ; attachment interior. Siliipie bilocular (partition con- 

 trary), containing many thin winged seeds. Embryo centri- 

 petal, no perisperm. 



] . B. nndiilata. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves opposite, simple, linear-lanceolate, 

 much waved. Racemes lateral. Calyx campanulate, with 

 the mouth cut into five, short emarginate segments. Silique 

 linear, a little compressed, smooth, partition contrary. 



A native of Hindoostan, from thence sent to the Botanic 



