263 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. StrycllUOt. 



rather hard and brittle ; colour from a bright yellow to a dirty look- 

 ing mixture of yeilow and rough brown. Pulp gelatinous and vel- 

 low. — Seeds from two to twelve, orbicular, much flattened as in 

 the Nux-zomica, peltate, nearly an inch broad. Integuments two; 

 the exterior one thin, but tough, and most densely clothed with soft, 

 short hairs, like the softest velvet ; the interior one a very thin brown 

 membrane.— Perisperm conform to the seed, united round the mar- 

 gins, the middle free, resembling two cotyledons, horny. — Embryo 

 straight, much smaller than the perisperm, and lodged close to the 

 umbilicus, which may be readily known by the hair being longer at 

 that part, forming a tuft round it, Cotyledons cordate, three-nerved. 

 Hadicle oval, pointing to the umbilicus, (centripetal.) 



Additional species by A'. W. 



4. S. axillaris, Colebrooke. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate. Tendrils axillary, thickened. Bern/ 

 oval, one-seeded. — Colebr. in Linu. trans, xii. 351, and 356. t. 15. 



Native of the mountainous countries north and east of Siihet, 

 in Bengal, where it blossoms in the hot season, and ripens its fruit 

 in the beginning of the rainy season. — Seng. Hur-cuchita or Her* 

 cuehila. Colebr. I. tit. 



Obs. The excellent account which has been given of this in- 

 teresting plant by Mr. Colebrooke, renders it unnecessary for me 

 to furnish any detailed description here. -But as I received splen- 

 did specimens last year from Silhet, gathered by Mr. Francis 

 De Silva, the successor to the late Mr. Smith, I. am enabled to make 

 the following few additions ; Stem moderately thick, enlarged at the 

 divisions, round, covered with smooth brownish bark. — Branches 

 numerous, approximate, divaricate, dichotomous or opposite, slen- 

 der, while young pubescent and somewhat greyish. — Leaves sub- 

 bifaiious, twice as long as their interstices, glossy while young, villous, 

 mostly tripli-nerved, sometimes also tri-nerved, in which case two 

 fine sub-marginal nerves issue from the base of the common lib j a!3 



