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attached to the axis. Style very short. Stigma large, 

 tapering, apex more or less three- cleft. Capsule, when 

 a germ, it shows three-cells, with the rudiments of six or 

 eight seeds in each, but when the seeds are ripe, the num. 

 ber is only from one to four in the whole, and they seem 

 as if in a transparent, fleshy, one-celled capsule, separat- 

 ed by a spongy substance. Seeds from one to four, shin- 

 ing black, beaked. Male peduncle, corol, and stamens 

 as in the hermaphrodite ; no germ, style, or stigitia. 



Note. It is a plant of no great beauty, nor are its flow- 

 ers fragrant ; variety alone must recommend it to a place 

 in the Flower Garden. 



2. C recurvata. R. 



Leaves lanceolar, plaited. Raceme globular, recurved. 

 Corol sessile, rotate. Capsule bacciform, round, many- 

 seeded. 



It is a native of the eastern frontier of Bengal, from 

 thence received into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where 

 it blossoms, and ripens its seed the whole year round. 



i?oof perennial, consisting of many fleshy fibres proceed- 

 ing from a tuberous, stoloniferous body. Stem none. Leaves 

 radical, petioled, lanceolar, recurved, plaited, entire, 

 smooth on both sides, from one to three feet long, and 

 Trom two to six inches broad. Petioles deeply channelled, 

 one- third, or one-fourth the length of the leaves. Scapes 

 axillary, about as long as the petioles, compressed, 

 villous, apex recurved. Racemes solitary, strobiliform 

 drooping. Bractes spathiform, solitary, singly one-flower- 

 ed, villous, tapering, about as long as the pedicells and 

 flowers taken together. Flowers hermaphrodite, yellow, 

 expanding three quarters of an inch. Calyx none. Corol 

 superior, sessile, rotate, six-parted. Segments lanceolate, 

 spreading, villous on the outside, smooth and yellow, 

 on the inner persistent. Filament short, inserted on the 



