Beffonia. monoecia polyandria. G49 



ty, very short. Anthers long-, clavate, opening- wiih a long 

 slit on opposite sides. Female calyx none. Corol as in the 

 male, but larger. Stamina none. Germ inferior, smooth, 

 and thickly spotted with red, four-lobed, fdur-celled ; each 

 ceil containing two reniform receptacles,attached to the mid- 

 dle of the axis, ovula innumerable over every part of the re- 

 ceptacles. Style four, bifid, yellow; seyments or stigma 

 spiral like the horns of a ram. 



2. B. laciniata. R. 



Caulescent, erect, hairy. Leaves unequally cordate, laci- 

 iiiate, serrulate-dentate. Peduncles the length of the petioles, 

 few-flowered. Capsule with one large, oval, obtuse wing, 



Beng, Hooirjo. 



A native of the Garrow hills, and the eastern frontier of 

 Bengal. Flowering time the rainy season, the seeds ripen in 

 November. 



Root fibrous. Stem simple, rather succulent, about bien- 

 nial, first erect, afterwards more or less procumbent, hairy, 

 jointed ; from six to eighteen inches long, and as thick as a 

 ratan. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, unequally cordate, 

 acutely laciniate, margins serrulate-dentate, and ciliate ; from 

 three to six inches long and broad. Stipules oblono-. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary, about as long as the leaves, from 

 two to six-flowered, and generally more than half of them 

 male. Bractes like the stipules, but smaller. Corol four-pe- 

 talled, cruciate-oval within, ferruginous on the back. Jllale 

 stamina numerous, inserted on a conical receptacle, clavate. 

 Filaments rather short. Female germ inferior, oval, with two 

 narrow and one broader wing, and for the most part only 

 two-celled, each containing numerous ovula, attached to two 

 jugiform receptacles in each cell, rising from the axis, as in 

 Gaertuer's Mussaendafrondosa. Style scarcely any. Stigma 

 large, variously convolute. Capsule oblong, three-winged ; 

 but two of them so narrow as scarcely to be observed if not 



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