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Spreading accessory teeth or horns: petals 4—5 or wanting: sta= 
mens as many or twice as many as the calycine lobes :. ovary 2~4- 
celled: style shortish or elongated’: stigma capitate: capsule ovate- 
globose, membranaceous, either bursting transversely or opening by 
valves: seeds numerous. 
(1) A. vesicatorra. (Roxb.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. L. p. 305.—Roxb. fl Ind. I. p.. 426.— 
Dec. prod. III. p. 78. 
Syn, A. baccifera, Linn. 
Spec. Cuan. Annual: calyx 4-cleft to the middle: lobes tri- 
angular, acute: tube at first narrow and tightened round the ovary, 
eup-shaped in fruit: stem much. branched: leaves lanceolate, atten -. 
uated towards the base: petals wanting: style short: flowers very 
minute, aggregated in the axils of the leaves, almost sessile, red. 
Peninsula. Saharunpore. Flowering in the rainy season, The 
leaves are exceedingly acrid and are used for raising blisters. The- 
A. Indica, Lam. appears to be a mere variety of the above. 
(2): A. MuLTIFLoRA. ( Roxbd. ). 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 305.—Roxb. fi. Ind. f. p. 426.— 
Dec. prod. III. p. 79. 
' Syn. A. parviflora, Dec. Lc. p. 77.—W. & A. prod. I. p. 306.. 
Spec. Cuar. Annual: calyx 4-cleft to the middle: tube after- 
wards becoming cup-shaped : petals 4, roundish: stamens scarcely, 
exceeding the calycine-segments : style filiform : leaves linear, auri- 
cled at the base, sessile: peduncles axillary, 1-7, usually $-ffower- 
ed: flowers small, red. : 
Peninsula, Bengal, Flowering in the rainy season. 
(3) A. etauca. ( Walt.) 
Fdent. W. & A. prod. 1. p. 305, 
Spec. Cuar. Calyx 4-cleft to the middle: Yobes triangular, 
acute, with minute accessory teeth: leaves glaucous, linear-oblong,. 
floral ones reflexed > petals wanting : style short :. flowers numer- 
ous in the axils of the leaves, forming a dense sessile verticil,. 
Peninsula. 
(4) A. VEBTICILLATA. (Lam. ), 
Hdent. W.& A. prod. I. p. 304.—Dec. prod. TIL. p. 79. 
Syn. <A. Caspica, Marsch. Bieb.—A. lanceolata, Heyne. 7A, 
salicifolia, Monte. 
+ Engrav. Lam. Ill. t. 77. f. 3.—Pluk. t. 356. f. 6. 
Spec. CHar. Calyx shortly 4~—5-lobed, half-globose: lobes 
broadly triangular ; aceessory horns longer than the loh¢s: stamens 
