PJtrmium, monandria monogynia. T 



form to the seed. — Embryo erect, simple, the apex hooked. Radicle 

 inferior, close to the umbilicus of the seed. 



Obs. The simple, short-peduucled, imbricated, linear-oblong spike, 

 bursting from the middle of the petiole, readily points it out. 



5. P.parviflorum. R. 



Stemless. Leaves radical. Heads of flowers petiolary; bractea 

 acute. 



A native of the eastern parts of Bengal. With P. capiiatum, it 

 blossoms about the beginning of the rains. 



Root tuberous, horizontal, perennial, hairy, in other respects as in 

 P. capitatum, &,c. — Leaves long-petioled, elliptically-oval, polished, 

 entire, short, acute-pointed. — Heads of flowers sub-globular, sessile, 

 always bursting from the inner side of the petioles, near, or above their 

 middle, composed of many, imbricated sessile, distichous, compact, 

 simple, or compound spikes. — Bractes ; the exterior two are broad- 

 ovate, and common to the whole head; the rest within smaller; all 

 are smooth, and end in a small, rigid, acute point. — Flowers in pairs, 

 small, nearly inconspicuous, yellow. — Calyx, coral, and stamen, as 

 in capitatum. — Germ short pedicelled, smooth, but hairy round the 

 insertion of the calyx, 3-celled, and in this species I have only found 

 one of the cells fertile, in it is one otulum, attached to the bottom, 

 of the cell. In capitatum aU the three cells are fertile. Style as 

 in the other species, it grows to the tube of the corol, its apex free 

 and hooked. Stigma iufundibuliform. 



6. P. capitatum. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. 1. 17. 



Stemless. Leaves radical, long-petioled, oblong. Heads of flow- 

 ers petiolary and terminal, glomerate. Bractes truncate, incurvate. 



Naru-killa. Rheed. mal. W.p. 67. t. 34. 



Phyllodes Placentaria. Lour. Cochin-ch. I6. 17- 



Kudali. Beng. which also signifies a Plantain. 



A native of Chiitagong, and of various other parts of India. From 

 the former place it was sent to the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, by 

 Dr. Buchanan in 1797. Flowering time the rainy season; the seeds 

 ripen iu the cool season. 



