Stiaphila.] OLXVIII, TRIURIDEZ. (J. G. Hooker.) 559 
Stem 4-8 in.; bracts about ze in. Flowers alternate, opposite and whorled, 
mono- or dioecious, pedicel 3-1 in.; male å in. diam., fem.}in. Anthers sessile on 
à thick disk, - 
4 S. khasiana, Hook. f. in Gen. Plant. iii. 1003; perianth segments 
t5 ovate-acuminate, male fl. with 3 subulate pistillodes, style ventral 
filiform much longer than the ovary. 
Kuasta Hiris, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. y T. T. 
Plant red-purple. Stem 3-6 in., filiform or capillary, flexuous, simple or branched, 
mked or with a few scales, fem. much the stoutest. Flowers diccious, racemose, 
male A in, diam., fem twice as large and longer pedicelled; bracts of male minute, 
Zen. | in., subulate 3 perianth papillose. Anthers very large, globosely 4-lobed, 
white, dehiscence transverse ; pistillodes erect, subulate, purple. Carpels many, 
papillose, Achenes reniformly obovoid, pericarp cellular, purple. Seed conform to 
the pericarp; testa chartaceous, yellow-brown, transversely strongly reticulate ; 
em oblong, cellular, homogeneous, white.—Described from drawings I made in 
asia, 
OrpER CLXIX. ALISMACEJE. 
Marsh or water plants of various habit. Leaves radical, entire. Flowers 
regular, uni- or bisexual. Perianth segments 6, 2-seriate, outer (sepals) 
heri àceous, inner petaloid rarely 0. Stamens 6 or more, hypogynous or 
Perigynous ; anthers erect, basifixed, 2-celled, slits lateral or dorsal. Car- 
Pels 3-6 or more, 1-celled, sessile or stipitate on a flat or raised receptacle ; 
style short, long (or 0), subterminal or ventral, stigma simple; ovules 1 or 
more, insertion various. Fruit of small achenes or follicles. Seeds small, 
ubuminons ; embryo straight or conduplicate.— Genera 12, species about 
» Cosmopolitan. 
Tribe 1. ALISMACEX. Fruit of 3 or more achenes. 
Flowers bisexual, Stamens 6-9. Receptacle flat . 1, ALISMA. 
owers polygamous. Stamens 6. Receptacle flat . — . 2. LIMNOPHYTON. 
owers unisexual. Stamens many. Receptacle globose or 
oblong e, 9, SAGITTARIA, 
Owers monocious, Stamens 3 . 4, WISNERIA. 
Tribe II. Buromex, Fruit of follicles. 
Petals marcescent. Embryo straight . 5. Bv TOMUS. 
*tals deciduous. Embryo hippocrepic 6. BuroMmopsis. 
1. ALISMA, Linn. 
ti Scapigerous herbs. Leaves lanceolate, cordate, or sagittate. Flowers 
sual in umbelled or panicled whorls, white or pink. Sepals 3, her- 
fla Cus, persistent. Petals 3, membranous, deciduous. Stamens 6 or 9, 
Ments filiform, Carpels few or many ; receptacle small; stigma small, 
Weer ovule solitary, anatropous, basilar. Fruit of few or many 
™pressed or tur id, coriaceous or hard achenes. Seeds erect, testa mem- 
"nous ; embryo ippocrepic.—Species about 10, cosmopolitan. 
T A. Plantago, Linn. ; leaves linear ovate-lanceolate or subcordate 
e ierved, fruiting sepals spreading, achenes membranous compressed, 
tie Slender deciduous. Kunth Enum. iii. 148; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vii. 
Car | Micheli in DC. Monog. Phan. iii. 32; Boiss. Fl. Orient. v. 9; Wall, 
41998, PA, intermedium, Griff. ez Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 680. 
