112 PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, Aldrovanda. 
or even stbpanicled, round, and smooth. Flowers nu- 
merous, pretty large, pale yellow, short-pedicelled. 
Bractes three to each flower, oval, sheathing, clammy. 
Calyx cylindric, sulcated, clammy, mouth five-toothed. 
Corol, it may be called one-petalled, with filaments insert- 
ed on the mouth of the tube ; or five-petalled, and those 
inserted on the tube, formed by the base of the filaments, 
lamina oblong, recurved over the mouth of the calyx. Fi- 
laments five, shorter than the corol. Anthers linear-ob- 
long. Germ superior, oblong, five-grooved, closely em- 
braced by the tube, formed by the stamina and petals, 
one-celled, containing a single ovula, pendulous at the 
end of a long umbilical cord which rises from the bot- 
‘tom of the cell. Styles five, rather longer than the Sta- 
mina. Stigmas large. 
ALDROVANDA. Schreb. gen. n. 529. 
Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled. ‘Capsule su- 
perior, five-valved, one-celled.. Seeds longitudinally af 
~ fixed toctthé inside of the valves of the pericarp. 
A. verticillata. R. 
_ Twining. Leaves verticelled, wedge-shaped, 
Beng. Malacca-jhanjee. 
Found swimming on ponds of water over Bengal dur- 
ing the cold and hot season. . 
Thave never seen it in any other form than that of 
detached pieces from one to three inches long, sometimes 
ramous, sometimes simple. The stems are round and 
smooth with verticells of six or eight leaves at every 
quarter of an inch or less. ie 
Leaves sessile, verticelled, wedge-shaped, oie ip 
four or five bristly horns of nearly the same length; over — 
the insertion of the middle pair is inserted a crescent-shap-_ = 
ed, winged utricle, the body of which is inflated, and 4 
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