216 HEXANDRIA HEXAGYNIA. Damasonium. 
1. D. indicum. Willd. 2. 276. Corom. pl. 2. N. 185. 
Ottel-ambel. Rheed. Mal. 11. ¢. 46. 
Beng. Parmi-kulla. 
Teling. Neer-venekee. 
An annual plant, a native of sweet water, Flowering 
’ time the rainy season. 
Root fibrous, Leaves radical, petioled, from oblong-cor- 
date to broad-cordate, waved, from seven to eleven- 
nerved, smooth, of a thin membranaceous texture ; size 
very various, say six inches each way; they generally 
grow under the water. Petioles three-sided, length va- 
rious. Peduncles radical, with the petioles, of suffi- 
cient length to raise the flower above the surface of the 
water, from four to five-sided, smooth, one-flowered. 
Calyx, spathe, superior, one-leaved, from five to six- 
winged ; wings membranaceous, waved ; mouth five or 
six-toothed. Perianth superior, three-leaved ; leaflets 
lanceolate, three-nerved. Corol three-petalled, Nectary 
three small, obcordate scales within the insertion of the 
petals. Filaments from six to twelve, erect. Anthers 
linear, erect. Germ within the belly ofthe spathe and in- 
ferior to the perianth, from six to twelve-celled, each con- 
taining numerous ovula attached to the partitions, as in 
Nymphea. Styles from six to twelve, half two-cleft. Stig- 
mas acute. Capsule oblong, crowned with the withered 
perianth, six-grooved ; one-celled, six-valved. Seeds nu- 
merous, affixed to six sharp keels, (parietal receptacles,) 
running on the inside of the sutures of the six valves. 
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