t»2 MONANORl A MONOGYN1A. Alphua. 



lohcs refuse. Capsvtcs spherical, (black.) one-valved, many- 

 seeded. 



Hellenia A Ihujhas. Linn, sp. pi. ed, Willd. 1.4. 



Mala-inschi-kua. /Hard. Mai. 11. p. 29. t. 14. 



Sans. Taraka. 



Bent/. T:\rnka. or Tan. 



This plant is common near Calcutta, in low moist places, 

 among brush wood. Flowering time the beginning of the 

 rainy s easo n. 



Hoot tuberous, biennial, or perennial, horizontal, brownish, 

 with many pretty thick fibres, considerably aromatic. Stem 

 « n ct, ^liulitl\ < ompn — < <l. entin 1} cov< n il * iili the sheaths 

 of the lea \ i v : from three to si\ fi < i high. Leaves alternate, 

 bifai tous, petioled, oblong, ending in a fine twisted point; 

 1 >«>t h sides smooth, and gloss} : tin under side paler colour; 

 mum numerous, straight, exceedingly ti im -. going off at an 

 acute angle; generally about ;i foot long, and tour inches 

 broad. Petiole* sheathing with ;i stipulary rounded process 

 li^iiiM above tin' insertion of the leaf. Panicle terminal, 

 bending glightly in one side. Flowt rs numerous, in sue* i -- 

 awn, large, <>t a beautiful rose colour, inodorous. Calyx 

 superior, uil>l>on». fleshy, generally two or three-toothed. 

 Coral one-petalled ; inhr short ■ border doubU ; the exte- 

 riar three-parted : dxoiswns nearly equal, outwardly downy, 

 concave, particularly near the ends, pair greenish rose colour; 

 the superior one more remote. Interior border, or Up twe* 

 deft, with two flesh} protuberances near ili«' base; division* 

 with two4ootbed apices and waped margins, colour a beau- 

 tiful mixture <>f deep, and pale rose. Nectary (of K'onig and 

 Retz.) two oblong, compressed, flesh} bodies, embracing the 

 base of the style. Filament short, broad, much flattened. 

 Anther double, each lobe ending in an obtuse hornlet. derm 

 inferior, globular. Style lodged in the groove of the fila- 

 ment. Stigma clubbed, somewhat three-sided, obtuse, with 

 a crescent-like fissure, and ciliate margin. Capsule glo- 

 bular, inclining to be three-sided, smooth, when ripe black, 



