S82 PENTANDRIA M0N0GYN1A. £ilttnera. 



tals Filaments short, inserted into the fissures of the nectary, re- 



curvate. Anthers two-lobed, — Germ round, hairy. Style short, five- 

 grooved. Stigma minutely quinquidentate. — Capsules ihe size of a 

 ii!be»t, round, armed with long, rigid bristles ; texture hard, approarb- 

 irg to that oi a nut, five-celled, ten-valved. — Seeds solitary, s. a!i in 

 | i">poition to its cell and attached to jts inner angle, ova.te-obion", 

 fatiier pointed at the apex, and obliquely truncate at the base, Itite- 

 gumaits three ; the exterior and interior membranaceous ; the mi die 

 one hard and thick. — Perisperm none, or very thin. — •Embryo in- 

 verse, yellow. Cotyledons large, two-lobed ; and rolled spirady up. 

 J^lamula two-lobed. Radicle cylindric, nearly as long as the seed, 

 superior. 



2, B.herbacea, Roxb. Corom. 1. N. 29. 



B. cordata, Willd. spec. i. 1 1 19- 



Unarmed, herbaceous, erect. Leaves cordate, serrate, downy. 

 "Nectary one-leaved, five-toothed. 



An erect herbaceous plant, a native of the tops of the Circar 

 mountains. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, serrate, downy, two inches and 

 a half long, and one and half broad. — Stipules reflexed, small, acute. 

 > — Peduncles axillary, one or more, three-flowered.— Leaflets ot the 

 calyx large, reflexed.— Nectary one-leaved, five-toothed ; teeth con- 

 verging over the pistillum. — Filaments five, very short, from the fis- 

 sures of the nectary, reflexed. Anthers double j singly oval. 



Obs. by N. W. 

 Specimens are preserved in Dr. Heyne's collection. The whole 

 plant is sparingly beset with short, stellate hairs, and has much the 

 appearance of some of our East Indian Sides. The leaves vaiy 

 exceedingly much on one and the same plant, from linear, an inch or 

 two long by one-third of an inch broad, to oblong-ovate and cordate, 

 tapering from the very base almost. The middle rib is glandular 



