451 
Srxc. Cuan. Annual, erect, branched : leaves alternate, lanceo+ 
late, short-petioled, quite entire, lower onés often oblong: capsule 
obsoletely 4-5-angled, equally thick, about 2~3 times longer than 
broad, much shorter than the ieee flowers small, yellow. 
Penitisula, Cénéans. Flowering in the raiity season. 
GENUS Ill. CIRCA. 
Diandria Monogynia: Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Frown Circe; the fafows etichatreys, The prickly fruit 
lays Hidld of the clothes of paséers<by as Ciree is said to Have done 
‘by her enchantments, ae a ne 
Gry. Cuan. Calyx tubular; limb 2-parted; petals 2: stamens 
inserted into the calyx : evary 2 or 1-celled, with one erect ovule 
in each cell: style simple: stigma emarginate: fruit 2 or 1-celled, 
2-valved, 2 or 1-seeded.; seeds solitary : albumen none; r 
(1) C. aurina. (R. W) 
Tdeit. Wight's Il. I. p. 22. 
Engids. Wight 1. ¢. t, 103. 
o MH oe ee ae ae al - See oe i . wl aes 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous plant: leaves opposite, toothed, peti- 
ie d: flowers in terminal and lateral racemes, covered with hooked 
Ts. ; 
Neilgherries and Pulney hills. 
ORDER LEVI. HALORAGACEZ. 
Calyx 3-4-palrtité ov Shtikds petaly tebrted at the top of the 
calyx-tube and alternate with its segments, or wanting: sta- 
mens inserted with thé petals, twice as many or equal to them 
in number: ovary elosely: etheriny Witli the: ealyx-tube, 1-4- 
celled: ovuleg solitary; pendulous: styles wanting or distinct 
and as many as the cells of the ovary : stigmas equal in number 
tolthe tells; pappuilose o penidilliform : fruit diy and-indehiséent, 
mhetiibrarious or bony, with 3s rary éélfis as stigmiis : seed so- 
litary, pendulous; albumen fleshy: embryo straight in the axis 
of the afWunien. 
