564 MONOECIA MONANDRIA, Chara. 
_ Stems and ramifications numerous, several feet long, float- 
ing in the water, jointed, striated, fragile, scabrous, piped, 
but no stony crust covers them. Leaves about twelve in the 
verticel, tapering, from ten to twelve-jointed, they are about 
as long as the points of the stem or branches, on the upper 
side of each joint are four minute bristles, or leaflets of the 
calyx. Flowers, they occupy the upper side of the first two 
or three joints of the leaves of the verticel, Wale flowers, 
what I take for them, are the small, naked, orange-coloured, 
round bodies close to the base of the germ, which gradually 
decay as the germ acquires size, Female flowers solitary, 
just above the male, pitcher-shaped, embraced by the four 
bristle-like leaflets, already mentioned, and crowned with a 
fine pointed stigma; when this body comes to maturity, it 
contains one black, spirally grooved seed, 
2. C. furcata. R. 
Stems filiform, smooth. Leaves veveolied. proliferous, 
with flowers crowded in the divisions. 
Beng. Jhanj, which is the general name for all such ac- 
quatic plants, 
Found in tanks, and stagnant sweet water near Calcutta. 
Stems and branches numerous, jointed, smooth, and of a 
soft, flaccid texture, often several feet long, Leaves or 
branchlets verticelled, about six or seven in the verticel, the 
superior, or flower-bearing ones proliferous, the most distinct 
of them resembling compound, and even decompound um- 
bels, with the extreme divisions or joints two or three-point- 
ed, they are smooth in every part; the joints are often so soft, 
and numerous that the whole seem to be little intricate balls 
enclosing the blossoms, and seeds with their two-forked extre- 
mities projecting hedgehog-like. Flowers numerous, in the 
divisions of the leaves; the male ones yellow, and the female 
ones green, mixed, in general the latter are most numerous. 
Calyx of the female no other than the division of the leaves. 
Seeds globular, spiral, with the stigma from three to five- 
parted on its apex, 
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