2,6$ BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



bird Chatrdca, commonly called Chattdrya, or Tun* 

 funi, forms its wonderful nest with a leaf of this downy 

 Solarium, which it sews with the silk-cotton of the 

 Seven-leaved Bomb ax, by the help of its delicate 

 but sharp bill : that lovely bird is well known by 

 the Linnaan appellation of Mo tacilla Sartoria, pro- 

 perly Sartrix ; but the figures of it that have been 

 published, give no idea of its engaging and exquisite 

 beauty. 



23. Samudraca : 

 S y n . -Dhola-samudra. 

 V u l g . Dhol-samndr. 

 Linn. AqtMma\ but a new species. 

 Cal. Perianth one -leaved, funnel-shaped, five- 

 toothed, short, the teeth closely pressing the corol j 

 permanent. 

 Cor. Petals five, egg -oblong, sessible, greenis.i; 

 acute, curved inwards, with a small angled con- 

 cave appendage. Nectary tubular, fleshy, five- 

 parted, yellowish \ divisions, egg-oblong, doubled, 

 compressed like minute bags with inverted mouths ; 

 enclosing the germ. 

 St am. Filaments five, smooth and convex exter- 

 nally, bent into the top of the nectary, between the 

 divisions or scales, and compressing it into a glo- 

 bular figure. Anthers arrowed ; the points hidden 

 within the nectary, surrounding the stigma ; the 

 barbs without, in the form of a star. 

 Pist. Germ roundish. Style cylindric. Stigma obtuse. 

 Per. Berry roundish, flattened, navel ed, longitu- 

 dinally furrowed, mostly five-celled. 



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