2SS A COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND BOOK 
Amalth. SI, t. 442, f. 3). Secondly, he called it Sanidliim 
nigrum Devadarre Malaharoriim (Mant. 167; Amalth. 
187, sed non t. 442, f. 1 et 2, quarum prior calycem habet 
superum, posterior corollam monopetalam bilabiatam). Dr 
Koxburgh called this plant Erythroxylum monogynum^ a, 
name adopted by M. Poiret (Enc. Meth. Sup. ii. 587) ; but 
Decandolle (Prodi, i. 573) properly considers it as belong- 
ing to a different genus, and calls it Sethia Indica. If a 
trifling natural order, such as the ErythroxylecB of Kunth, 
is to be established for twenty-six species, divided into two 
genera, the characters, by which the order is to be distin- 
guished, must be either altered, or the genes Sethia must 
be removed, thus leaving one small genus to compose what, 
in the new-fangled system, is called a Natural Order. On 
this account, T shall here give a description of the Sethia 
taken in Mysore (1800), specimens from whence were given 
to Sir J. E. Smith by the name of Erythroxylum Sidero-* 
xylloideSj for which I then mistook it. Specimens have also 
been sent to the India-House under the name given by Dr 
Roxburgh. 
Arbuscula tortuosa. Rami diffusi, ieretes, glabri, alteriii. Folia al- 
terna, cuniata s. obovata, integerrima, emarginata, glabra, enervia, ve- 
nosissima, plana- Petiolus compressus, canaliculaLus, brevissimus, gla- 
ber, stipulse geminse, laterales, marcescentes, sessiles, semiovatie, erectse, 
integerrimse, brevissimee. 
Pedunculus axillaris, uno vel altero ssepe deficiente, ternus, erectu&, 
folio multo brevior, uniflorus, incrassatus, non bracteatus. Flores erecti, 
folio multo minores, herbacei. 
Calyx quinque dentatiis, erectus, persistens, petalis multo brevior. 
Petala quinque calycis incisuris inserta, ungui concavo mellifero, limbo 
duj)licato, quorum exterior patens, oblongus concavus ; interior erectus, 
brevis, coloratus, bifidus. Filamenta decern urceolo hypogyno, cylindrico, 
integerrimo ad marginem inserta. Antherag parvse. Germen superum, 
subtrigonum, urceolo paulo longius, stylus unicus, teres, indivisus. Stig- 
mata tria clavata. 
Drupa oblonga, obsolete trigona, pulposa. Nux oblonga, trilocularis, 
trisperma. 
