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402 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Pladera;. 
lodged the fourth or large stamen. | Filaments four, inserted 
into the mouth of the tube, the lowermost longer than the. 
other three, and bearing an orange-coloured, and longer an- 
ther, which when shedding its pollen, is bent over the fissure 
of the stigma ; anthers of the other three filaments equal, pale 
" yellow. Style single, length of the short filaments. Stigma 
two-cleft, segments recurved. . Capsule one-celled, many- 
seeded, 
3. P. decussata, R. 
» Annual, erect, Sur tringeds branches cross-armed, Site , 
cou dnnenalate, three-nerved. lowers terminal, three-fold, 
peduncled. | 
Beng. Dunkoni. . cele 
_ This species resembles P. virgata, but is a little more ro- 
bust, and seldom so high. It is a native of ihe same — 
Flowering time the same,: ied & 
Siem about a foot high, perfectly erect, fomnbchada cuales 
very sharp, or rather secnatien cent smooth, ramous, 
branches always opposite, cross-armed, in other respects like 
the stem, Leaves opposite, spreading, sessile, lanceolate, sharp- 
pointed, entire, smooth, three-nerved, size various. Flowers 
terminal, and axillary, peduncled, the terminal flowers three- 
fold ; the axillary single, larger than those of the last species, 
. and white. Peduneles four-sided, like the stem and branches. 
= large, four-toothed, four-sided, four-winged, — Cont 
stmepebtiets ee as in the last — & ee pecaapatal tas 
e P. perfalate, B. ; | 
Annual, erect, four-winged. Chien. leaenk lanceolate, 
three-nerved’; floral leaves (or bractes) patina by ede 
Canscora. Lamarck’s Encyclop. Bot. i, 601. 
Cansjan-Cora. Rheed, Mal. x. p. 103. t. B2u € 
» Anative of India, where it delights in a low. moist sh 
Flowering time the rainy BOGROR G32 615242; » skery 
_ Root: ‘Tamous, annual, * Stem ect somewb sid 
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