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. 180 ' TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. i .  Sonerila, 
are also smaller ones from the superior axils, which are sub-globular, 
and smaller. Ramifications alternate, at first divaricate, afterwards 
recurved.— Flowers numerous, small, short-pedicelled.— Bractes trian- 
. gular, acute.—Calyr, leaflets three, equal, oblong, concave, spreading, 
fleshy, furrowed on the outside.— Petals three, equal, oval, much larger 
than the calyx, concave, entire, spreading and of a delicate translucent 
pale bluish white.— Nectarial filaments alternate with the longer sta- 
mina, bearded (like the latter) towards the base, with delicate, slight 
blue hairs, and crowned with large incumbent, three-lobed, yellow 
glands.—Germ somewhat three-sided. Style oblique, length of the fi- 
Jaments. Stigma small, crowned with a tuft of hairs.— Capsules three- 
celled, three-valved, with generally from four to six, or seven, angus 
lar, rough seeds in each cell. Embryo lodged in a deep pit, in the 
back of the seed, small, oval. Ae 
SONERILA. R. 
Calyx superior, three-toothed. Petals three on the mouth of the - 
calyx, alternate with the stamina. Germ three-celled, cells many- 
seeded, attachment central. Capsule three-celled. Seeds numerous, 
minute. 
3. S. maculata. Roxb. ! 
Leaves opposite, unequally-cordate, brisde-potted; serrulate, cili- ” 
ate. . : 
Soneri-ila. Reed. mal. 9. p. 127. t. 65. 
"Sootli, the vernacular name in the Khassee language. 
It is indigenous amongst the mountains on the North-East bor- 
der of Bengal, and used by the natives as a potherb.* Fiowering ume 
‘the beginning of the rains. In its natural character it agrees dms 
exactly with. Burmannia. 
Root fibrous.—Stem short, being odi a few inches high, P 
when old leaning much, branches opposite, longer than the stem; the 
lower reciinate, with their apices resting on the ground and striking 
* Ihave had specimens fcom Nepala under the name of Lushee Sowa.—N- v. 
