210 HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Aponogeton, 
1. A. monostachyon. Willd. 2. 917. Corom. pl. 1. N. 81. 
Spike single, simple. Leaves linear, with cordate base. 
~ Capsules smooth, with about six seeds in each. 
Parua-kelanga. Rheed. Mal. 11, ¢. 15, 
Sans. Kakangi. 
Hind. Ghechoo. 
- Nama is the Telinga name of the plant, and nama- 
- dumpa of the root. 
Saururus natans. Mant. 227. GGe* 
It is a native of shallow, standing, sweet water; and 
appears, and flowers during the rains. 
Root tuberous, perennial. Leaves radical, ong: peti- 
oled, linear-oblong, at the base cordate, pointed, entire, — 
smooth, from three to five-nerved, from three to six inch- 
es long, and about one broad. Scapes as long as the 
leaves, a little striated, perforated by many pores length- 
ways. Spikes elegantly bent this way and that, closely 
surrounded with flowers. Calyx, orcorol, which you may 
please, two wedge-shaped, concave leaflets, or petals, in- 
serted at the base of the two fissures, between the inferior 
and two superior germs, permanent, Filaments always 
six, shorter than the bractes, withering. Anthers blue. 
Germs constantly three, surrounded by the permanent 
. stamens. Capsules three, pointed, with the remaining 
style, smooth, one-celled, from four to eight seeded, Seeds 
oblong, inserted into the base of the capsule, 
The natives are fond of the roots, which a are nearly as 
good as potatoes. 
I have removed this genus from the fourth order of 
_the seventh class, to the third order of the sixth, as all 
‘my four Indian species are uniformly hexandrous, and 
for the most part with three germs. 
2. A. ¢hinatum. R. 
Spike single, and simple. | Leaves linear, with ise 
base. Capsules echinate. — about six, ces, 
