448 POLYGAMIA SEGREGATA, Hingtsha. 
A native of moist places. It flowers during the wet season. 
Stems annual, towards the base creeping, and branchy, 
above erect, round, smooth, the erect parts from nine to fif- 
teen inches high. Leaves alternate, stem-clasping, lanceo- 
late, serrate, smooth, with the base much expanded, so as to 
form a cup-like receptacle for the flower. Flowers axillary, 
single, sessile, of a beautiful light purple. Common perianth 
many-leaved, unequal; the exterior two or three that are 
placed on the sides,are the largest, and end like a leaf. Par- 
tial perianth one-flowered, one-leaved, campanulate, smooth, 
contracted, margin two-cleft, permanent. Corol compound. : 
Florets numerous, all hermaphrodite, equal ;, éube longer 
than the perianth; border five-cleft, spreading. Filaments 
five, as in the class, Germ oyate, Stigma two-cleft, Peri- 
carp none, the belly of the partial perianth closely envelop- 
ing each seed, and forming its exterior covering. Seed one, 
wedge-formed, somewhat four-sided, crowned with the two 
divisions of the mouth of the partial perianth. 
_Lhbelieve Dr. Konig never saw this plant, to me it seems as 
if it would form a new genus. 
HINGTSHA. R ‘: 
Calyx, common four-leayed. Partial perianth one-leay- 
ed, one-flowered, Florets hermaphrodite, tubular, five-clelt 
_ inthe disk ; the female ones sub-ligulate, from three to four- 
toothed i in the ray. Receptacle naked. Pappus none. - 
HL. over, ‘Roxb, 
Beng. Hingtsha. 
A native of Bengal, delighting in a moist rich soil, and of- 
ten extending itself considerably over the surface of the ad- 
joining pools of water. Flowering time the cold and 
seasons, 
Stems creeping, ramous, round, hairy, jointed ; length very 
various ; = appear to be — eset: ee 2 
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