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Observation, Though both the fe plants grow abundantly every where 

 In the jungles of the extenfive Sunderdans ? I have not been able to 

 ascertain fatisfa&orily their native names ; nor have I fucceeded in 

 tracing any fynonymes of them. They feem even to have escaped 

 the notice of that moft acute obferver and botanift Do&or Rox« 

 burgh. They are very diftincl: by their flowers and fruits. Their 

 leaves are lefs different, and vary much in the lad fpecies from 

 oval to almoft linear. S. carinatus is althogether a flenderer and 

 fmaller fhrub. The fpongy fiefh of its receptacles is of a mild 

 milky tafte, and ufed by the natives in their curries. 



flowering time, the hot and rainy feafons. The fruits ripen towards 

 the clofe of the rains a 



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C annua pilofula, bafi ramofa, foliis linearibus denticulate flonbws ter« 



minalibus, capfulis apice poris tribus dehifcentibus. 

 Habitat in agris Bengalae freqventer. 



Planta erecia, pedalis, annua, ad fperfapilis paucisbrevibus; bafi ramofa, 

 "Rami fubfimplices, adfcendents, fafligiiti. 

 Folia alterna, feililia, patentia, linearia, remote denticulata, bafi attenuata, 



bipollicaria, margine coftaqve leviter pilofa, fuperiora et floralia 



integerrima. 

 Mores parvi, glabri, dilute coerulei, ad apicem caulis et ramorum pauci, 



alterni. 

 Pedunculi filiformes, pra&eolis aliqvot lenearibus. 



Calyx fuperus qvinqvepartitus. Lacinias lineares, acuta?, erecliufculse/ 

 Corolla campanulata, qvinqvefida, calyce duplo longion Lacinise ovatse 



acutie. - . 



Stam : na corolla breviora. 



