in botany, a genus of the hexandra digynia clas. The calyx has two leaves; the petals are two, and finuated; and there is but one seed. There are two species; viz. the spinosa, a native of Media; and the undulata, a native of Ethiopia.

ATRAETI, in medicine, infants having no perforation in the anus, or persons imperforated in the vagina or urethra.