v MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Phrynium. 
to each pair of flowers.— Calyx 3-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, smooth. 
—Corol with a long, very slender, smooth tube. Border ; exterior of 
three reflexed, oblong, obtuse segments; within these are two larger, : 
round-obovate, erect, curled portions. Interior, or nectarium small, 
and like the other species unequally 3-lobed.—Anther one-celled, 
attached to the inner border of the corol.— Germ inferior, 3-celled, 
with one oculum in each, attached to the bottom of the cell.—Style 
blended with the tube of the corol, as in the other species described 
by me.— Stigma uncinate, thick, and fleshy.—Seed vessel (not seen.) 
UR e. "Leaves radical. Spikes simple, petiolar, solitary, 
short-peduncled ; "bractes imbricated, truncate, many-toothed. 1 
Pittuli-pata the vernacular name in Chittagong, where it is com- 
mon in its cual state. Flowers i in Mesi a ec and bigger" 
ripen 
- Rot tuberous, &c. as in other scitamsnents j jit —Stem t none. 
siie itigis iiiki at the bane! as at heap apii: smooth, entire, ie: 
ly acuminate ; 12-24 inches long, by 4-8 broad. — Petioles longer than 
the leaves, cylindric, smooth, the flower-bearing ones have a hairy j joint 
near the middle, and from the joint up, a slit of between 2 aud 3 in- 
ches in length opens on one side for the spike, its margins thin, and _ 
hairy.— Spike solitary, short-peduncled, simple, linear-oblong, 5-4 — 
inches long, imbricated.— Bractes; exterior oval, truncate, with the 
transverse apex many-toothed, smooth, each embracing several small, 
pale, pink flowers, which expand in succession. Inner bractes small, 3 
tod serre Ca sls and stan, a as in Pp. parviflo- 1 
^to "he 1 
bottom of its cell. ` Style; as in the other apaties; narri and 
is blended with the tube of the corol, its apex free, thick, and hooked. l 
Stigma gaping obliquely toward the anther.— Capsut 
a large field bean, rugose, 3-celled, S-valved, op ning fr 
— Seeds solitary, sitting on a parti , and attache 
of the cell ; external tunic hard, brown, and poli 
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