BASELLA

(Lat.), n. £. Ba?s(ba )-e”llas. Fr., baselle. A Linnean genus of climbing chenopodiaceous plants of the suborder Baselleæ and the tribe Eubaselleæ. [B, 19, 42.]—B. alba [Linnæus]. Fr., baselle blanche, épinard de la Chine. A species cultivated in the East Indies, where its leaves are eaten and used as an emollient application to ulcers and to hasten the maturation of absce es and as a laxative. [B, 121, 173, 180.] ordifolla {Lamarck]. Fr., baselle à feuilles en coeur. A biennial species rowing in the East Indies, having edible leaves which are used fie those of B. alba, It furnishes a purple dye. [B, 172.)—B. japonica [Burmann]. Fr., baselle du Japon. A perennial species growing in Japan, used for the same pur) as B. alba. [B, 173.] —B. lucid a here Fr., baselle brillante. An annual species growing in India, used like B. alba. |B, 173, 180.]—B. nigra [Loureiro]. See B. rubra,—B. rubra [Linnæus|. … baselle rouge, épinard d'Amérique (ou des Indes). Malabar nightshade; a biennial species growing in the East Indies, the leaves of which are eaten like spinach. The juice of the leaves is used in India for infantile catarrh, and the fruit furnishes a red pplements It has been considered a variety of B. cord i folia: [B, 19, 172, 173; L, Ga) —B. tuberosa (Humboldt, Bonpland, Kunth]. Fr., baselle lubéreuse, A perennial South American species, e leaves are eaten in New Granada, and often the root. It is said to render women fruitful. [B, 173, 180.}—B. vesicarla [Lamarck]. The Anredera scandens. [B,? BASELLACEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. Ba*s(ba®s)-e?l-la(la®)'se?(ke?)- e(a3-e), Fr., basellacées. The basellads; of Moquin, an order of dicotyledonous kerbs having the following characters: There is a persistent fleshy or membranous calyx, imbricate in æstivation and consisting of two whorls, an exterior 2-parted whorl and an interior 5-parted whorl. There is no corolla. The stamens are united by their bases into an urceolate tube adherent to the calyx, and are place opposite the divisions of the inner whorl of the latter. e anthers are dorsally attached, contain two loculi, and dehisce by longitudinal slits. ere is a short, simple style surmounted by three stigmas and terminally disposed upon a single free, unilocular ovary containing a single Sparel ovule. B fruit is dry or bacciform, and contains a single vertical seed enveloped in an indehiscent crustaceous, cartilaginous, or membranous pericarp. The order is divided into the Suborders Basellece (= the Eubaselleæ of Bentham and Hooker), including Basella and two other genera in which the albumen is eccentrically disposed and very scanty, and the embryo is of a spiral shape; and the Anredereæ (= the Bou ingaultieæ of Bentham and Hooker), in which the albumen is more abundant and is centrally disposed and the embryo is annular. The whole order constitutes the suborder Hgerlien of the Chenopod i aceæ of Bentham and Hooker. [B, 42,