Phrynium. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. p 
form to the seed.— Embryo erect, simple, the apex hooked. Radicle 
inferior; close to the umbilicus of the seed. 
Obs, The simple, short-peduncled, imbricated, liubi- abioi spike, 
bursting from the middle of the — parsi eg it out. 
5. P. parviflorum. R, | 
Stemless. Leaves radical. Heads of dees petiolary ; bractes 
acute. 
A native of the eastern parts of Bengal. With P.capitatum, it 
blossoms about the beginning of the rains. 
Root tuberous, horizontal, perennial, hairy, in other respects as in 
P. capitatum, &c. —Leaves long-petioled, elliptically-oval, polished, 
€ acute-pointed.— Heads of flowers sub-globular, sessile, 
bursting from | the inner side of the petioles, near, or al vove their 
middle, composed of many, imbricated sessile, distichous, compact, 
simple, or compound spikes — Bractes ; the exterior two are broad- 
ovate, and common to the whole head; the rest within smaller; all 
are smooth, and end in a small, rigid, acute point.— Flowers in pairs, 
small, nearly inconspicuous, yellow.—Calyz, coral, and stamen; as 
in capitatum —Germ short pedicelled, smooth, but hairy round the 
insertion of the calyx, 3-celled, and in this species I have only found 
one of the cells fertile, in it is one oculum, attached to the bottom 
of the cell. In capitatum all the three cells are fertile. Style as 
in the other species, it grows to the tube of the corol, its apex free 
and h Stigma infitndibatiform. | 
Sepe 
5, 0. capitatum. Linn. sp. pl. èd. Willd. 1. 17. 
Stemless. Leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong. Heads of flow- 
ers petiolary and terminal, glomerate. Bractes truncate, incurvate. 
~ Naru-killa. Rheed. mal. 11. p. 67. t. 34. 
' PhyHodes Placentaria. Lour. Cochin-ch. 16. 17. 
' Kudali. Beng. which also signifies a Plantain. | 
~ Anative of Chittagong, and of various other parts of India. From 
the former place it was sent to the Botanic Garden at. Ce 
Dr. Buchanan i in 1797. ‘Flowering tiite the rainy s ason, 
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