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culata, extüs pube minutå obsita, in calycem calyptræformem citò deciduum, valvatim cohærentia, basi tantüm libera. Peraza 5 lan- 
ceolata, acuta, ciliata, extìs puberula, venulosa, lineas 5 longa, mox decidua. Sramna plura, patentia, toro convexo inserta, longitudine 
petalorum ; filamenta capillacea, glabra; antheræ parva, ovate, biloculares, oscillantes, introrsæ. Ovarrum obliquè lenticulare, hinc 
gibbosum, stipite brevi, pilosulo suffultum, læve, ovulo solitario, reclinato, funiculo brevissimo sustento ; stylus lateralis, filiformis ; dd 
parvum. 
I have already adverted to this tree, under Melanorrhæa usitata (vol. 1. p. 9 and 12). I am not acquainted with 
any use to which it is put, nor do I know if it produces any acrid juice, like the other species. 
Plate CCLXXXIII. Fig. 1. A flower, with the hooded calyx. ^ 2. The same, after the calyx has dropped off; Pistil with one stamen 
inserted on the torus. 
ANDROMEDA FASTIGIATA. Tab. 284. 
Andromeda fastigiata, Wall. in Act. Soc. Asiat. vol. 13. p. 394. 
Habitat in Himalaya ad Gossain Than. Kamaon (R. Blinkworth). 
Plate CCLXXXIV. Fig. 1—3. Leaves, seen in various directions. 3 (bis). A leaf cut across. 4. Flower. 5. The same, 
dissected. 6. Corolla, opened. 8. Capsule. 9. The same, divided horizontally. 10. The same, divided longitudinally. 
HEDYCHIUM sPECIOSUM. Tab. 285. 
Hedychium speciosum, Wall. in Roxb. Flor. Ind. vol. 1. p. 13. 
Habitat in montosis ad Sillet (F. DeSilva et Gulielmus Gomez). 
Plate CCLXXXV. Fig. 1. Fascicle of flowers. 2.3. Flower, dissected. 
MARANTA RAMOSISSIMA. Tab. 286. 
Fruricosa, paniculata; radice constante tuberibus stipitatis, pendulis, fasciculatis, clavatis ; foliis radicalibus longè 
petiolatis, oblongis, subcordatis, rameis ovato-oblongis. | 
Crescit ad Sillet Bengalæ orientalis, unde in hortum botanicum Caleuttee misit F. DeSilva. 
I am unable to offer a detailed description of this species, which is very distinct from Maranta dichotoma (Rox- 
burgh’s Phrynium) by its numerous, long and clavate tubers. The plant resembles the West Indian Maranta arun- 
and its root contains a large proportion of starch, commonly called Arrow-root. 
dinacea, 
2. Tubers. 3. A radical leaf. 
Plate CCLXXXVI. Fig. 1. The base of a plant, on a reduced scale. 
POLYGONUM Emo. Tab. 287. 
. . ee yo . . oe A 
faciebus lævibus nitidissimis; foliis angusté lan- 
. . . . ` ^ 
margine revoluto integerrimis, supra dense pen- 
folioso, caulibus annotinis, erectis, simplicibus. 
Srrcis geminatis, angustis, floribus inapertis, achenii acutanguli 
. e. . . A Mè si 
ceolatis sublinearibusgue, acutissimis, utringue egualitêr attenuatis, 
natim nervosis; trunco epigeo, prostrato, ramoso, radicante, ubigue 
— Meisner MSS. 
