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Found, with the former species growing in shallow 

 fresh water all over the Circars. 



3. A. undulatum. R, 



Stoloniferous. Spikes simple. Leaves lanceolate, 

 waved. 



A native of Bengal, and like A. monostacliyon, grows 

 in standing sweet water. It flowers during the rains. 



Root tuberous, perennial, stole-bearing and edible. 

 Leaves radical, petioled, generally under, or floating on 

 the water, lanceolate, waved, from three to five-nerved, 

 with numerous, small, expanding veins, from four to six 

 inches long, and less than one broad. Petioles compress- 

 ed, shorter than the leaves. Scapes round, smooth, the 

 length various, according to the depth of the water, 

 thickening as it ascends. Spikes simple, crowded with 

 flowers. Bractes and stamens as in A. monostachyon. 

 Germs three, sometimes four, but this does not affect the 

 number of stamens ; in all the flowers I examined, they 

 are invariably six. Capsules smooth. Seed generally one 

 or two, oblong. 



4. A. microphyllum. R. 



Root tuberous. Spike single, simple. Leaves radical, 

 cylindric, many times Shorter than the spike. Capsules 

 with one or two seeds. 



A native of damp places near the Bhotan mountains. 

 Flowering time, the rainy season. 



Root tuberous, and esculent. Leaves radical, sessile, 

 about three, four, or five to the scape, spreading close 

 on the surface of the earth, sub-semicylindric, their mar- 

 gins being incurved ; about one inch long, and one-eighth 

 of an inch broad. Scape erect, round, smooth, three or four 

 times longer than the leaves. Spathe caducous. Spike 

 terminal, suberect, every where covered with beautiful 

 blue coloured flowers. Calyx (bractes or corol) two-lea v- 



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