Hawttugnie: TRIÁNDRIA TRIGYNIA 361 
Mr. Gardner has likewise sent me specimens gathered in the vici- 
nity of. Gossein ‘Than (also called Neel-kuntha) in Nepala. I have 
been favored with specimens found by Dr. G. Gowan, the superin- 
tendent of the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore, on his tour to the 
‘Sewalic mountains. 
» Name in Nepala, Kala or Kullum-Soa. 
An erect, slender; pretty smooth, from two to three feet high, an= | 
nual plant ; rising from a long, thin, somewhat creeping root, with 
many short, capillary; verticilled fibres.—Stem round, slightly zigzag, 
about the thickness of a common goose quill at its base, with ob- 
Scute, remote, pubescent, leaf-bearing joints : generally simple, though 
sometimes sending forth several short undivided branchlets toward. 
its summit.—.Leaves petioled; alternate; spreading, broad-cordate, 
with rounded distant lobes, acuminate, entire, from two to three 
inches long, dotted with copious semi-pellucid points, glaucous, and 
While young slightly furfuraceous below, reticulated, five-nerved, the 
three middle nerves generally uniting near the petiol.— Petio/ stipu- 
lary slender, channelled, about half as long as the leaf, into the 
base of which it gradually widens.—Stipules membranaceous, flac- 
cid, oblong, obtuse and rounded, slightly ciliated and sometimes 
marked with a few toothlets, scarcely stem-clasping at the base, hav- 
ing their petiol inserted about the middle of their back, persistent, 
the lowermost forming remote bractes on the base of the stem.— - 
Peduncles leaf-opposed and terminal, naked, solitary, club-shaped, 
generally longer than the petiol, sometimes reaching to the middle 
: Of the leaf. — Spalhe consisting of four equal, white, spreading, per- 
sistent, obovate or cuneate, obtuse, smooth, veined leaves, during the 
&slivation imbricating in the shape of a cone, about six lines long.— 
Spadiy cylindric, much lengthened as the flowers decay, generally 
twice as long as the spathe and when fruit bearing sometimes mea- 
suring an inch and a half. Flowers very numerous and small, close 
together, covering entirely the spadix, which they render oblong and. 
obtuse, sub-verticilled, destitute of both calyx and corol.— Filaments 
tariably three, subulate, somewhat longer than the pistils, i inserted. 7 
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