646 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. Sagittaria, 
Dr. Smith observes, in his description of S. sagittifolia, 
that it discharges a white milky juice, a rare circumstance in 
an aquatic plant. Our Bengal plant yields nothing of the 
kind; whether this is a sufficient ground for considering ours 
to be a distinct species, I will not presume to say, but must 
observe, that I cannot discover any other difference. I do 
not find that any use is made of the bulbs in Bengal. 
2. S. obtusifolia, Willd, iv. 409. 
Polygamous. Leaves reniform, sagittate-obtuse, lobes 
long, taper and acute, Scape ramous, and verticelled ; flow- 
ers hexandrous. 
Culi tamara. Rheed, Mal. xi. t. 45. 
A native of standing sweet water, or slow running rivers. 
It flowers during the cold season. 
Root fibrous, annual. Leaves radical, erect, long-petiol- 
ed ovate-sagittate ; apex circular, lobes or barbs divaricate, 
tapering to long, narrow, fine points, smooth, many-nerved ; 
from six to twelve inches long,and from four to eight broad. 
Petioles from two to three feet long, thick, one side flat, the - 
other angular, Scapes including the flower-bearing part 
from two to four feet high, erect, from five to six-angled, 
striated, the lower verticel, and sometimes the second, bear 
branches mixed with the one-flowered pedicels. Involucre 
at each verticel three-fold, sessile, conical. Flowers numer- 
ous, small, white. JMale flowers for the most part terminal, 
peduncled ; peduncles slender. Calyx three-leaved. Corol 
three-petalled. Filaments six, below they are enlarged, 
so as to occupy the whole of the centre of the flowers. An- 
thers two-lobed. Hermaphrodite flowers, for there are 10 
male flowers, at least I have never found any, more numer- 
ous below, robust, peduncled. Calyx and corol as in the 
male. Filaments six, with their enlarged bases surrounding 
the germs, Germs about thirty, sessile. Stigma two-lobed, 
bearded, or downy. Drupes numerous, collected'on a glo- 
bular receptacle, turbinate, dry, wrinkled. Mut one-seeded, 
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