Vallisneria. DIOECIA DIANDRIA. 751 
pletely reflexed. Filaments two, clubbed. Femae. Flow- 
ers axillary, sessile, paired. Spathe asin the genus, Pe- 
rianth (or corol) three-leaved, spreading, orbicular, con- 
cave and elevated on a most slender pedicel. Corol no other 
than the last mentioned. Germ oblong, tapering in the above 
mentioned slender pedicel or style ; stigma six-leaved ; leaflets 
revolute, appearing like the corol sitting close to the calyx. 
Capsule as in the genus, 
Note. The smal] corollets when separated from the spadix, 
swim upon the tips of the reflected petals, over the surface of 
the water, till entangled by the large corol-like stigmas of the 
female flowers. , 
3. V. verticillata, R, 
Ramous, Leaves verticelled. Male spathe one-flowered. 
Hottonia serrata, Willd, i, 329. 
Serpicula verticillata. Suppl. p. 416. R. Corom, ple ii, 
No. 164, 
Teling. Poo natsoo. 
Grows in clear, standing, sweet water. Flowers during 
the cold season, and consists of simple, filiform roots, and a 
number of fine, filiform, jointed shoots, or stems ; some creep- 
ing, some floating below the surface of the water, branches 
solitary, axillary. 
Leaves sessile, verticelled, three to six-fold, oblong-lanceo- 
late, from one eighth to half an inch long. Ma Le FLOWERS 
axillary, sessile, from one to four in the verticel, much small- 
er than the female, Calyx, spathe one-flowered, sub-globu- 
lar, murexed, bursting irregularly. Pertanth three-leaved ; 
leaflets obovate, reflexed. Corol three-petalled; petads 
wedge-formed, reflexed. Filaments three, short, ascending. 
Anthers very large, two-lobed, opening with an elastic jerk, 
pollen white, very large grained. FEMALE FLOWERS on dis- 
tinct plants, axillary, generally solitary, though sometimes 
there are two from the same verticel. Spathe, perianth, and 
corol, as in the genus; no nectary, Germ sessile, subulate, 
