4j MONANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Phrynium. 



to each pair of flowers. — Calyx S-\ezveA\ leaflets lanceolate, smooth. 

 — Corol with a long, very slender, smooth tube. Border; exterior of 

 three reflexed, oblong, obtuse segments ; within these are two larger, 

 round-obovate, erect, curled portions. Interior, or nectarium small, 

 and like the other species unequally 3-lobed. — Anther one-celled, 

 attached to the inner border of the corol. — Germ mferior, 3-celled, 

 with one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of the ceW.— Style 

 blended with the tube of the corol, as in the other species described 

 by me. — Stigma uncinate, thick, and fleshy. — Seed vessel (not seen.) 



4. P. imbricatum. R. 



Stemless. Leaves radical. Spikes simple, petlolar, solitary, 

 short-peduncled ; bractes imbricated, truncate, many-toothed. 



Pittuli-p'dVd the vernacular name in Chittagong, where it is com- 

 mon in its wild state. Flowers in March and April and the seeds 

 ripen in August. 



Root tuberous, &c. as in other scitamineom plants, — Stem none. 

 — Leaves radical, long-petioled, from oblong, to broad lanceolar, ta- 

 pering nearly as much at the base, as at the apex, smooth, entire, fine- 

 ly acuminate ; 12-24 .liches'long, by 4-8 broad. — Petioles longer than 

 the leaves, cylindric, smooth, the flower-bearing ones have a hairy joint 

 near the middle, and from the joint up, a slit of between 2 and 3 in- 

 ches in length opens on one side for tlie spike, its margins thin, and 

 hairy. — Spike soMlary, short-peduncled, simple, linear-oblong, 3-4 

 inches long, imbricated. — Bractes; exterior oval, truncate, with the 

 transverse apex many-toothed, smooth, each embracing several small, 

 pale, pink flowers, which expand in succession. Inner bractes small, 

 and membranaceous. — Calyx, corol, and stameri, as in P.parviflo- 

 rum. — Germ 3-celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 

 bottom of its cell. Style, as in the other species, it grows to, and 

 is blended with the tube of the corol, its apex free, thick, and hooked. 

 Stigma gaping obliquely toward the anther. — Capsule oblong, size of 

 a large field bean, rugose, 3-celled, 3-valved, opening from the apex. 

 —Seeds solitary, sitting on a partial aril, and attached to the bottom 

 of the cell ; external tunic hard; brown, and poliahed.— JPcwpen/j con- 



