210 HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. AponogetOU. 



1. A. monostachyon. Willd. 2. 917. Corom. pi 1. N. 81. 



Spike single, simple. Leaves linear, with cordate base. 

 Capsules smooth, with about six seeds in each. 



Parua-kelanga. Rheed. Mai. 11. t. 15. 



Sans. Kakangi. 



Hind. Ghechoo. 



Nama is the Telinga name of the plant, and naraa- 

 dumpa of the root. 



Saiirurus natans. Mant. 227- 



It is a native of shallow, standing, sweet water ; and 

 appears, and flowers during the rains. 



Root tuberous, perennial. Leaves radical, long-peti- 

 oled, linear-oblong, at the base cordate, pointed, entire, 

 smooth, from three to five-nerved, from three to six inch- 

 es long, and about one broad. Scapes as long as the 

 leaves, a little striated, perforated by many pores length- 

 ways. Spikes elegantly bent this way and that, closely 

 surrounded with flowers. Calyx, or coral, which you may 

 please, two wedge-shaped, concave leaflets, or petals, in- 

 serted at the base of the two fissures, between the inferior 

 and two superior germs, permanent. Filaments always 

 six, shorter than the bractes, withering. Anthers blue. 

 Germs constantly three, surrounded by the permanent 

 stamens. Capsules three, pointed, with the remaining 

 style, smooth, one-celled, from four to eight seeded. Seeds 

 oblong, inserted into the base of the capsule. 



The natives are fond of the roots, which are nearly as 

 good as potatoes. 



I have removed this genus from the fourth order of 

 the seventh class, to the third order of the sixth, as all 

 my four Indian species are uniformly hexandrous, and 

 for the most part with three germs. 



2. A. echinatum. R, 



Spike single, and simple. Leaves linear, with cordate 

 base. Capsules echinate. Seeds about six. 



