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having the stigma capitate; not forked, as in A. monophylla 
figured by Roxburgh. Hence these two species may be thus 
distinguished.— A. monophylla; floribus axillaribus aggrega- 
tis longe pedicellatis, stigmatibus bifidis:—A. racemosa; ra- 
cemis axillaribus, floribus subsessilibus, stigmatibus capitatis. 
Tas. CXXII. Atalantia racemosa. Fig. 1, Calyx, in- 
cluding the pistil. Fig. 2, United stamens. Fig. 3, 3, Sec- 
tions of the germen : —more or less magnified. 
[Tas. CXXIII.] 
VILLARSIA CRISTATA; 
Foliis natantibus cordatis undulatis, petiolis florigeris, pedun- 
culis aggregatis unifloris, corolla segmentis medio cristatis 
marginibus crispatis, staminibus 5 alternis sterilibus, sem- 
inibus subcompressis scabris. (Tas. CX XIII.) 
Villarsia cristata. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 582. 
Menyanthes cristata. Roxb. Corom. v. 3. t. 105. Fl. Ind. v. 2. 
p. 29. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 177. 
Ullie, Z'amul. 
. Aquatic. Roots fibrous, white, some from the base of the 
plant, and others from the extremity of the petiole, below the 
floating leaves. Leaves petioled, orbicular, cordato-peltata, 
margins entire or waved. — Petioles radical, rounded, smooth, 
often very long; near their upper extremity frequently 
: es furnished with a large tubercle, from which appear nu- 
merous filiform peduncles and roots, and finally new plants. 
Peduncles fascicled, single-flowered. Calyx 5-leaved; leaflets 
du: lanceolate. Corolla rotate; its limb 5-cleft, the divisions obo- 
Vate, obtuse, slightly crisped on the margin, and crested down 
the middle. Cres; undulated, terminating below in 5 hairy sterile 
| Stamens. Tube short, yellow, hairy round the mouth. Perfect 
: Stamens 5: filaments short, inserted near the apex of the tube, 
Slightly incurved. Anther 2-celled. Pistil: Germen superior, 
inflated, ovate. Style short, thick, terminated by a large 2- 
. Seconp Serres. : 
