176 TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Sonerila, 
Panicles terminal. Petals nent Capsules idoriis-celled; ma- 
ny-seeded. 3 
A native of Sawnitea, from a inbieiiosiath into a Bo- 
tanic ‘garden by Mr. Charles Campbell, where it blossoms 
and ripens its seeds during the whole year. 
Root perennial, consisting of long, firm, thick fleshy fibres, 
Siems several from the same root, herbaceous, jointed, as- 
cending, round, smooth, much swelled at the joints, from 
two to three feet in height, nearly the whole enveloped in the 
sheath of the leaves.. Leaves alternate, sessile on their sheaths, 
lanceolate, smooth, slightly marked with five parallel nerves, 
margins entire, waved, somewhat membranaceous, and co- 
loured, \Sheaths shorter than the joints, striated, and smooth, 
except a few white hairs’ round their mouths. Panicles 
terminal ; there are also smaller ones from the superior axills, 
which are sub-globular, and smaller. Ramifications alternate, 
at first divaricate, afterwards recurved. Flowers numerous, 
small, short-pedicelled. Bractes triangular, acute. Calyx, 
leaflets three, equal, oblong, coneave, spreading, fleshy, 
furrowed on the outside. Petals three, equal, oval, much 
larger than the calyx, concave, entire, spreading and ofa de- 
licate translucent pale bluish white. Mectarial filaments al- 
ternate with the longer stamina, bearded (like the latter) to- 
wards the base, with delicate, slight blue hairs, and crowned: 
with large incumbent, three-lobed, yellow glands. Germ 
‘somewhat three-sided. Style oblique, length of the filaments. 
Stigma small, crowned with a tuft of hairs. Capsules three. 
celled, three-valved, with generally from four to six, or seven, 
angular, rough seeds in each cell!’ Embryo lodged in a —— 
pit, in the back of the seed, small, oval. 
SONERILA. R. a 
_ Calyx superior, three-toothed. Petuls three on the mouth 
of the calyx, alternate with the stamina, Germ three-celled, 
cells gros -seedod, attachment central. near thet Z 
ed. jeeds numerous, g Rett’ aoe =: ee 
