460 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. /Menyanthes, 
Beng. -Chooli. 
Teling, Antara Tamara. 
A native of pools of sweet water, where it floats, often not 
reaching the bottom with its roots. | Flowering time the wet 
and cold seasons. rigdtde f 
Root annual, fibrous, Leaves radical, petioled, cordate, 
lobes overlapping a little, margins somewhat scolloped, — 
smooth, on the upper side purplish green; size various, the 
larger from four to six inches long. Petioles round, length 
- various, on the upper side about two inches below the leaf 
there is a viviparous tuberosity, which produces the*flowers 
as well as other leaves and roots, the old leaf and the. 
parent petiole decaying, leave this a new plant, each peti- 
ole in succession doing the same. Peduncles many, from 
the above-mentioned tuberosity of the petiole, one-flowered, 
sufficiently long to raise the flower above the water-while 
expanded, afterwards they drop into the water, and:there 
ripen their seeds. Flowers pure white, about an inch in dia- 
meter, Calyx five-leaved ; leaflets broad-lanceolate, perma- 
nent. Corol of one petal; divisions of the border oblong, 
expanding with broad, membranaceous, waved, curled, rag 
ged margins; down the middle of each of them runs a ridge, 
exactly similar to one half of the divisions themselves, no hair 
on the flowers. Nectary triple ; the exterior one consisting of 
white,ramous filaments crowning the mouth of the tube of the 
corol, as in Nerium ; the middle one of five beautiful yellow, 
dies, which nearly fill the mouthofthetube,stand- _ 
Sing eleqrwetd wich 'thss fibemehte’ and the interior one of five: 
hairy, yellow bodies surrounding the base of the germ, Fi- 
laments inserted into the tube of the coro] near its base. An- 
thers oval, Style short. Stigma two-cleft; segments large, — 
and lobate. Seeds a little compressed, scabrous, Receptacles’ 
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