in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia clas. The antherae are four, and placed on an obtusely conic body; the fruit is of a roundish figure, consisting of four cells, in each of which are contained several roundish seeds. There are two species, none of them natives of Britain.

ST MARTHA, a city and port-town of Terra Firma, in South America, and the capital of the province of St Martha: W. long. 74° 30', N. lat. 11° 45'.