112 PENTANDRIA PRNTAGYNiA. Aldrovanda. 



or even subpanicled, round, and smooth. Flowers nu- 

 merous, pretty large, pale yellow, short-pedicelled. 

 Bractes three to each flower, oval, sheathing, clammy. 

 Calyx cylindric, sulcated, clammy, mouth five-toothed. 

 Corol, it may be called one-petalled, with filaments insert- 

 ed on the mouth of the tube ; or five-petalled, and those 

 inserted on the tube, formed by the base of the filaments, 

 lamina oblong, recurved over the mouth olthe calyx. Fi- 

 laments five, shorter than the corol. Anthers linear-ob- 

 long. Germ superior, oblong, five-grooved, closely em- 

 braced by the tube, formed by the stamina and petals, 

 one-celled, containing a single ovula, pendulous at the 

 end of a long umbilical cord which rises from the bot- 

 tom of the cell. Styles five, rather longer than the Sta • 

 mina. Stigmas large. 



ALDROVANDA. Schreb. gen. n. 529. 



C'«/7/x five-parted. Coro/ five-petalled. Capsule sn- 

 perior, five-valved, one-celled. Seeds longitudinally af. 

 fixed to the inside of the valves of the pericarp. 



A. verticillata. R, 



Twining. Leaves verticelled, wedge-shaped. 



Beng- Malacca-jhanjee. 



Found .swimming on ponds of water over Bengal dur- 

 ing the cold and hot season. 



I have never seen it in any other form than that of 

 detached pieces from one to three inches long, sometimes 

 ramoiis, sometimes simple. The stems are round and 

 smooth with verticells of six or eight leaves at every 

 quarter of an inch or less. 



Leaves sessile, verticelled, wedge-shaped, ending in 

 four or five bristly horns of nearly the same length ; over 

 the insertion of the middle pair is inserted a crescent-shap- 

 ed, winged utricle, the body of which is inflated, and 



