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on a plate in the Malabar Garden; though Van 

 Rheede pronounces it Lauri. There can be no 

 doubt that it is the swimming Mimosa, with sen- 

 si/he leaves, root inclosed in a spungy cylinder, 

 and flowerets with only ten filaments. Linnjeus, 

 by a mere slip, has referred to this plant as his 

 Dwarf iEscHYNOMENE ; which we frequently 

 meet with in India. — See 9 H. M. tab. 20 The 

 epithet Lajjalu is given by the Pandits to the 

 Modest Mimosa. 



70. Chandraca: 



S y n . C handrapushpa. 



Vulg* Ctihota Chdnd, or Moonlet. 



Rheede : Sjouanna Amelpodi, 6 H. M. t. 47. 



Linn. Serpent Ophioxylum. 



Gal. Perianth^ five-parted, small, coloured, erect, 

 permanent; divisions egged, acutish. 



Cor. Petal, one. Tube very long in proportion; 

 jointed near the middle, gibbous from the en- 

 closed anthers ; above them, rather funnel-form. 

 Border five - parted ; divisions inverse - egged, 

 wreathed 



Pi st. Germ above, roundish. Style thread-form. 

 Stigma irregularly headed ; with a circular pellucid 

 base, or nectary, extremely viscid. 



Per. Berry mostly twinned, often single, roundish* 

 smooth, minutely pointed, one-seeded. 



Seed on one side flattish, or concave; on the other, 

 convex. 



Flowers fascicled. Bracts minute, egged, pointed, 

 coloured. Tid>e of the corol light purple; border 



small,- 



