2 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Phrynium, 
Capsule three-celled, three-valved. Seeds solitary, arilled 
at the base. puget a8 uncinate, and furnished with a peri- 
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ei BeNotomen. aus 
Shrubby, dichotomous.. Leaves cordate. 
Thalia cannaformis. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 1. 16. 
Arandastrant. Tonchat seytam. Rumph, Amb, 4. P. 22, ee 
et 
- Donax Arindastrum. Lourier. Cochin Ch. 15. - 
Sans. Vula, Godunika, Bhudra, Bhudroudunee, Shura- 
kasthika, Kulyaninee, Bhudra-bula, Ghata, Patee, Vulahwa. 
Beng. Moocta-patee, Pattee-patee,* or Madar-patee. 
- This elegant shrub, is a native of Bengal, as well as of 
various other parts of India, &c. Flowering time he hot 
season ; seeds ripen in the rains. — 
Root ramous, woody, perennial. Stems straight, taper 
and sunple to the branches, about as thick as a man’s thumb, 
and from three to five, or six feet high, of a beautiful, high- 
ly polished green colour. Branches numerous, dichotomous, 
spreading in every direction, smooth like the stem, but joint- 
ed at every division,» Leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-cor- 
date, smooth, entire, acute, from four to — inches Tongs 
veins numerous, very fine and parallel. 
except a small portion, one-tenth, or less; at th s¢ 
is round, ‘and may be calindre hieigaaeyeieder™ ich: 
nal, generally solitary, jointed, a little flexuous, Bractes 
a in pairs on the joints of the raceme, each put: 
ve “ “Mats made of the split stems of this plant, being smooth, z 
« and particularly cool, and refreshing, are termed in Hindi Sital- 
é ‘pati, which signifies a cool mat, whence the plant itself is said to 
“bear the same name. Suspecting, however, this to be a misap= 
» * propriation of the term, I have enquired of natives of theeastern _ 
* parts of Bengal, who assure me, that the plant is named Mucta~ 
“pata, Nps ae om re iat te is — oor sae —| 2 
brooke.  — 
