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MEXANDRIA, MONOGYNIA,  Q17r 
. ie, : ‘ 3 i 
“T, 5 =eenthe tube, upper lip marked with a broad greenish spot, 
ian unexpanded flowers and.filaments of the stamina thickly 
ae covered with round, blackish, glandular? atoms; tube 
ee perforated with 3 gashes. Three lower stamina some- ° 
me times longer than the corolla. : x 
_ Of this ainpilas genus of aquatics there are 3 species — 
in India and 2 in tropical America. The P./imosa belongs — 
to the genus Heteranthera, having a capsule of 3 cells, a 
character very erroneously retained to Pontederia in which 
there is no capsule at all. “Y a 
tit Flowers naked. 
316. CONOSTYLIS. R. Brown, Fior. Nov. Hol- 
land. 1. p. 300. — 
: Corolla semisuperior, 6-cleft, persistent, wool- 
) ly. Anthers erect. Style conic, tripartile. Stig- 
ma simple. Capsule opening at the summit, 
8-celled, 3-valved, many-seeded. aa 
2 ‘Leaves gramineous or caricine; scapes corymbiferous; 
wers tomentose. - eg eee 
Re Species.. 1.C. americana. Pu. Capsule triquetrous, 
ferior, valves septiferous in the middle; seeds 
‘ ; small, whitish, oblong-subcylindric, longitudinally striated, 
7 attenuated towards the base, seated near the bottom 
; of the capsule. Pubescence simple, not ramulose. 
Probably not exactly a congener with the New Holland 
‘Species of this genus. It has been calied Lophiola aurea 
by the editors of the Botanical Magazine. 
$17, ALETRIS, ZL. (Star-wort.) — eee 
Corolla tubulous, ovate, summit 6-cleft, ru- 
gose, persistent. Stdmina inserted upon the 
margin of the orifice. Style triquetrous, tri- pee Sas 
partile, Capsule semisuperior, 3-celled, many- 
ace : 
Root prar tuberous, bitter; leaves radical, dis- 
_.. (Capsule opening horizontally all round?+ seeds minute, 
{1 aot satisfactorily ctorily acquainted with lie: soiled y wh 
