“ lobe obliquely turbinate, clavate, wrinkled, the size of a 
“small Lentil, one-celled, one-valved, of a thick soft 
* spongy substance, and dark brownish black colour: seed 
“conformed to the interior of the cell 3 integument single, 
** pretty thick white soft and tough ; albumen none; embryo 
“erect, of an almondlike substance; cotyledons -2, oval, 
“thick; plumule small lunulate; radicle oval, inferior.” 
Roxb. MSS. 
Introduced in 1796, by Mr. Peter Good. Dr. Rox- 
burgh mentions a second species, found wild in Silhet, and 
names it scandens, though he doubts its being really dis- 
tinct from sanguinea, and suspects the apparent difference to 
lie between the wild and the cultivated states of the two 
plants. bs 
