$10 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CeloSia, 



other five short and incurved over the germ. — Stigma slightly three- 

 lobed. — Capsules ; the lid is a little scabrous and marked with five 

 elevations. — Seech several, shining black. 



This species appears to me to differ from Retz comosa in the 

 following points: 1st. Here the stamina and style are about the same 

 length, and rather shorter than the calyx, there twice as long. 2d. 

 Here aie many, about eight seeds hi the capsules; there only two. 



5. C. corymbosa, Willd. spec. i. 1200.* 



Perennial, erect. Leaves opposite and fascicled, linear. Corymbs 

 terminal. Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled, no. nectary. Cap- 

 sules one-celled, three-valved ; seeds many. 



Paronychia foliis ad genicula confertis,, acutis, floribais ymbelkitia, 

 Bur.n. zei/l. 184. t.65.f. 2. 



Telmga. Raj uma. 



Is a native of dry sandy lands. Flowers all the year round. Tlii* 

 would better form a separate genus than a species of Celosia ; pro->. 

 bably it is one of Jussieu's Caryophyllece. 



Root perennial. — Stem straight, frequently branchy, round, joint- 

 ed, reddish, covered with white down ; about a toot high. — Leaves 

 opposite, sessile, linear, spreading, with fascicles of many smaller 

 leaves in their axilis, — Stipules generally four-fold, ensilorm, mem- 

 branaceous. — U/nbells terminal, dichotomous . — Calyx five-leaved ° f 

 leajlets lanceolate. — ISectary, or rather corol, of five, obcordate petals, 

 alternate with the stamens.— Filaments inserted, alternate with the 

 petals. Style short. Stigma tiiree-lobed. — Capsules- three-sided, 

 one-celled, three-valved, opening from the apex. — Seeds from six to 

 twelve or more, round. 



Cattle are not fond of tliis species. 



* Hagea, Vent.; altered to Lahaya by Prof. Scbultes in Syst. Veg. v. p. xxxi.— How- 

 ever consonant with rales of grammar such changes may be, they onjy serve to multiply 

 the difficulties of botanical nomenclature. I imagine if. can only be a particular dialect of 

 the German language, which would pronounce Hagea like Haiea, or Vallaris like Phalaris; 

 yet has the i;ame of the genus next before the last been altered to Emericia, in the above 

 work, iv. p. 23. from similar motives and with equal impropriety. — N. W. 



