8 monandria monogynia. Phrynium. 



Bractes ; the exterior two are broad-ovate, and common to 

 the whole head ; the rest within smaller; all arc smooth, and 

 end in a small, rigid, acute point. Flowers in pairs, small, 

 nearly inconspicuous, yellow. Calyx, eorot, and stamen, as 

 in capitatum. Germ short-pedicelled, smooth, but hairy 

 round the insertion of the calyx, three-celled, and in this 

 species I have only found one of the cells fertile, in it is one 

 ovulum, attached to the bottom of the cell. In rapitatum all 

 the three cells are fertile. Style as in the other species, it 

 grows to the tube of the enrol, its apex free and hooked. 

 Stigma infundibuliforin. 



6. P. rapitatum. Linn. sp. pi. c<i. Wittd. 1. 17. 



Stemless. Leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong. Heads 

 of flowers petiolary and terminal, glomerate. Bracte* trun- 

 cate, incurvate. 



Naru-killa. Wired. Mai. 11. />. 67. t. 34 



Phyllodes P/arentaria. Loin. Corliin Ch. 16. 17. 



Kndali. limy, which also signifies ;i Plantain. 



A native of Chhtagong, and of various other parts of In- 

 dia. From the former place it "iis sent to the Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta, by Dr. Buchanan in 17!>7. Flowering 

 time the rainy season, the seeds ripen in the cool season. 



Root perennial, tuberous like ginger, with long, fleshy 

 fibres from the crown, and various other parts. Stem none. 

 Leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth on both 

 sides ; from six to eighteen inches long, and broad in propor- 

 tion. Veins numerous, fine and parallel. Petioles longer than 

 the leaves, slender, round, smooth, taper a little from the base, 

 and are there expanded into a sheath for those immediately 

 within ; such as are destined to bear the flowers have a joint 

 a little above the middle; immediately above this joint there 

 is a swelling, which in due time is forced open on the inside 

 by the growing flowers exactly as in our Indian species of 

 Pontederia. It however sometimes appears, and even in the 

 same plant, that some of the petioles, now scapes, extend no 



