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Pistil; germen 4-sided, inferior, sessile, forming a sort of 
pedicel for the flower. Style one, filiform, shorter than the 
stamens: stigma blunt. Fruit 4-winged, l-celled, 1-seeded ; 
wings spreading, purple. Seed 4-sided, pendulous. 
This is a common plant, found all over the country, in strag- 
gling solitary bushes. From my own knowledge, I can state 
its habitat as extending from near Cape Comorin to the middle 
of the Northern Circars; how much further I know not. It 
is to be met with in flower and fruit the greater part of the 
year, but in most perfection during the cool season. 
Surry. Tam. XXII. Fig. 1, Bud with its bractea, and Fig. 2, 
Front view of a flower:—magnified. Fig. 3, Section of a 
capsule :—wnatural size. 
XXIII, XXIV. 
VALLISNERIA SPIRALIS. 
Diccra Dranpria. Nat. Ord. HypnocHARIDEX. 
Gen. Cuar. Flores dioici.—Masc. Spadin conicus undique 
tectus flosculis; spatha inclusus. Perianthium 3-partitum. 
Stam, 2,—Fem, Spatha monophylla, uniflora, Perian- 
thium 3-6-partitum. Stigmata 3, bifida, extus quandoque 
appendiculata, Bacca unilocularis, eplindrasea, polys- 
perma. Semina parietalia. Br. . 
Vallisneria spiralis; scapo foemineo spirali, foliis natantibus 
linearibus obtusis apice serrulatis. Br. (SuppL. Tan. 
XXIII, XXIV.) 
V. spiralis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1441. Willd, Sp. Pl.v.4. p. 650, Br. 
Prodr, FI. Nov, Holl. v. 1. p.345. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v3. p. 900, 
V. spiraloides. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. "11. 
Vallisnerioides palustre, &c. qum Gen. p. 3. t. W, 
Ambul. Tamul. 
Leaves radical, linear,obtuse, serrulate on the margin, about 
3-nerved, varying in length according to the depth of water 
in which the plant grows, from 8-4 inches to more than a foot. 
Mare: Scapes axillary, one or two inchés long, cylindrical. 
