Teta, HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 165 
umbellets of pedicelled, pale, whitish green, small, ino- 
dorous, naked flowers. Involucres cordate, spathiform, 
Calyx none. Petals six, ovate-oblong, exterior three 
broader, expanding ; inner three refracted, or rigidly 
bent back. Filaments six, inserted between the petals and 
germ, broad, and rather short, with their apices incurved, 
each augmented at the apex with a large yellow gland. 
Anthers issuing from the forementioned glands, erect, ta 
pering, with two small. round perforations on the top, 
for the pollen to escape. Germ superior, nearly round. 
Style straight, about as long as the stamens. © Stigma 
small, somewhat three-dentate. Berry three-celled, 
succulent, size of a large marrow fat pea, smooth, and 
when ripe, very dark purple. Seeds from one to three 
in each cell, smooth, black, ovate pointed. 
I was long inclined to think this a species of Draceena, 
but the corol, and stamens differ so widely from any 
other Indian species of that genus I have yet met with, 
that I thought it would be better to adopt Lamarck’s 
name, 
TET A. (R.) 
_ Calyx none. Corol six-petalled, spreading. Nectary 
turbinate ; petal-bearing. Anthers sessile, in the mouth 
of the nectary. Berries from one to three, annem dee 
T. viridiflora, R. (*.) 
Found by Dr. Buchanan at Chittagong, oe on the 
eastern border of the Delta of the Ganges, and introduc- 
ed by that gentleman into the Botanic Garden at Cal- 
cutta, where it blossoms in the months of March and 
April; the seeds ripen in July and August. 
Root perennial ; from the crown or united bases of the 
leaves issue many, long fleshy fibres. Stem none. Leaves 
-" Probably it may belong to Jussien’s natural order 2 
