Pathos. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 'A&X 



3. T. quadrispiiiosa, R. 



Nut uilli two opposite pairs of stralglit, acute, spinous liorns. 

 A r.ative of Silhet, where it is found floating on lakes, and pools 

 of fresh water, its kernels are also esculent. 



FOTIIOS. Schreb. Gen. N. 210. 

 Spathe sub-c}lindric. Spaclix covered witli florets. Cali/x none 

 or four-petalled; corul none. Siamina inderinite. Germ one-'-eiJed 

 from one to three-seeded; altacunient of the ovula inferior (:;i heie- 

 rophijlla superior.) Berry one-celled, rarely many seediii. Embryo 

 uiicinate, without perisperni. 



1. P. scandens, Linn. Sp. PL ed. WtUd. i, 684. 

 , Paiasiiic, rooting. Petioles as broad as the lanceolar leaves. 'Flow- 

 ers axillary ; spadiv gobular, reflex. 



i\na-Parua, Rheed. Hort. Mai. \\\. p. 7.3. t. 40. 



Adpeudix diipio folio, Rumpli. amb. v. 4y0. t. 184./. 2. 



A native of Chittagong, Malabar, Anibouia, and other eastern 

 Islands. Flowering time in the former country, the month of April. 



Stems as thick as a slender ratan, often ramous, rooting upon 

 trees in the most shady forests, round, smooth, and less succulent 

 than any other species which I have yet met with, except P. graci- 

 lis.— Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolate, entire, smooth ; length 

 from two to four inches, breadth about an inch. — Petioles m-st 

 amply w inged, so as to be nearly as broad as the leaves themselves, 

 almost as long, equally entire, sn)oolh and Jiiarked with similar veins. 

 — Peduncles axillary, solitary, clothed with many small, ovate, brae- 

 tiform scales up to the spathe, where they are completely recurved. 

 — Spathe boat-shaped, erect. — Spadix globuIa>, reflex. — Cufj/r, or 

 coral, some roundish scales mixed amongst the germs, and of nearly 

 the same length, the exact number to each germ not ascertained. — 

 Stamina, about four obovate scales to each germ, with two pollini- 

 ferous pits on the inside under the retuse apex. — Germs many, ob- 

 long, one-celled, with one, two, or three ovula attached to the bot- 



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