30 DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. = Aegenetia. 
margins finely dentate ; the upper two less deeply separated, 
of such a charming deep violet that no artist can possibly do 
justice to the brilliancy of this flower. Stamens hid within the 
tube, Filaments nearly equal, smooth, the interior pair_re- 
curved over the posterior. Anthers, all the four firmly con- 
nected, the interior pair supported by the posterior pair of 
filaments; enlarged by a long horizontal fleshy appendage, 
into which the filaments are inserted. Germ ovate. Style 
shorter than the tube of the corol. Stigma broad-cordate, 
peltate. Capsule ovate, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds very 
numerous, very minute, Receptacles two pair, adjoined to 
the opposite sides of the capsule, ramous, 
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AE GENETIA. Roxb. — om i! 
Calyx ; spathe one-leaved. Corol campanulate, Capatle P 
one-celled, with various conyolute receptacles ; seeds numer- 
ous. 
* 
A. indica, Willd. iii. 347. R. Corom. pl. 1. No. 91. 
Tsjem Cumulu, Rheed. Mal, xi. t. 47. 
Orobanche Aegenechia. sp. p. 883. 
A small, rush-like, naked, annual plant, a native of the bitty 
parts of the Circars, 
Root a number of fleshy fibres, smooth, perfectly naked, 
intricately interwoven, Scales several, straight, round, ex- 
cept immediately at their base, where endl i is involved in a 
small sheath, about a foot long, one-flowered. Leaves none. 
Flowers \arge; of an elegant purple colour. Calyx ; spathe 
oblong, pointed, opening length ways on one side. Corol 
one-petalled, with the bottom of the tube erect, pitcher-form- 
ed above, bent out through the spathe, horizontally gibbous; 
border five-parted ; divisions equal, rounded. Filaments 
four. Anthers twin, united by pairs, Germ ovate, Style 
bent to correspond with the form of the corol, and ve, 
length thereof, Stigma headed, Capsule ovate, pinted, 
