ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. 2$$ 



and for medicine ; the fruit and blossoms arc 

 dressd in carls. In hundreds of its flowers, exa- 

 mined by me with attention, five stamens and a 

 pistil were invariably perfect ; indeed, it is pos- 

 sible, that they may be only the female herma- 

 phrodites, and that the males have ten perfect sta- 

 mens with pistils abortive ; but no such flowers 

 have been discovered by me after a most diligent 

 search. 



There is another species or variety, called Men- 

 si u Si 'gru, that is Honey-Slgru; a word intended 

 to be expressed on Van Rheede's plate in JSagarl 

 letters; its vulgar name is Muna, or Racta sajjana, 

 because its flowers or wood are of a redder hue. 



Linnjeus refers to Mrs. Black well, who re- 

 presents this plant by the name of Balamts Myrepsiea^ 

 as the celebrated Ben, properly Biin> of the Arabuin 

 physians and poets: 

 41. Co'vida'ra : 



Syn. Ca'nchandra, Chamarica, Cizdddla, Yugapalra. 

 Vulc. Cachndr, Racta cdnchan. 

 Li k n. / Wiegated Bauh i h i a . 

 Cal. Perianth one-leaved, obscurely five-cleft, deci- 

 duous. 

 Cor. Petals five, egged, clawed, expanded, wavy,; 



one more distant, more beautiful, striated. 

 St am. Filaments ten, unequally connected at the 

 base ; five shorter. Anthers double, incumbent. 

 Pi st. Germ above, oblong. Style incurved.' Stig- 

 ma simple, ascending. 

 Per. Legume flattish, long, pointed, mostly five- 

 celled. Seeds 



