8 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Phrynum. 
Bractes; the exterior two are broad-ovate, and common to 
the whole head; the rest within smaller; all are smooth, and 
end in a small, rigid, acute point. #Jowers in pairs, small, 
nearly inconspicuous, yellow. Calyzx, corol, and stamen, as 
in capitatum. Germ short-pedicelled, smooth, but hairy 
round the insertion of the calyx, three-celled, and in this 
species I have only found one of the cells fertile, im it is one 
ovulum, attached to the bottom of the cell. In capitatum all 
the three cells are fertile. Style as in the other species, it 
grows to the tube of the corol, its apex free and hooked. 
—_ infundibuliform, | | 
6 P. ins acbiibes sp. ike pes Willd, AAT: 
‘Stemless, Leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong. leas 
of flowers: petiolary and meomone ARREE, - Bractes tr 
 Naru-killa. Rheed. Mal. il. p- 67. t. 34. 
Phyllodes Placentaria. Lour. Cochin Ch. 16, 17. 
Kudali. Beng. which also signifies a Plantain. . 
A native of Chittagong, and of various other parts of In- 
dia. From. the former place it was sent to the Botanic gar-_ 
den at Caleutta, by Dr. Buchanan in 1797. Flowering 
time the rainy season, the seeds ripen in the cool season. > 
_ Root perennial, tuberous like ginger, with long, a 
Rbics from the crown, and various other parts, _ Stem : 
Leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth on both 
sides; from six to eighteen inches long, and broad in propor- 
tion. Veins numerous, fine and parallel. Petioles longer than 
the leaves, slender, round, smooth, taper a little from the base, 
and are there expanded into a sheath for those immediately — 
within; such as are destined to bear the flowers have a joint 
a little above the middle; immediately above this joimt there’ 
isa swelling, which in due time is forced. open on the inside 
by the peores flowers exactly as in our Indian species of — 
Pontederia, It however sometimes appears, and even inthe. 
