kjauKuynlh' triandria tris\nia= 381 



Mr. Gardner has likewise sent me specimens gathered in tlie vici- 

 nity of Gossein Than (also called Neel-luaitha) in Nepala. I have 

 been favored with specimens found by Dr. G. Gowan, the superm- 

 itriideut ot the Botanic Garden at Saharunpore, on his tour to the 

 Sewalic mountains. 



Name in Nepa'.rt, Kala or Kullum-Soa. 



An erect, slender, pretty smooth, from two to three feet high, an- 

 nual plant ; rising from a long, thin, somewhat creeping root, with 

 many short, capillary^ verticilled fibres. — Stem round, slightly zigzag, 

 about the thickness of a common goose quill at its base, witli ob- 

 scure, remote, pubescent, ieaf-beariugjoints : generally simple, though 

 sometnncs sendmg forth several short undivided branchlets toward 

 its sunmiit. — Leaves petioled, alternate, spreading, broad-cordate, 

 with rounded distant lobes, acuminate, entire, from two to three 

 inches long, dotted with copious semi-pellucid points, glaucous, and 

 while young slightly furfuraceous below, reticulated, five-nerved, the 

 three middle nerves generally uniting near the petiol. — Petioi stipu- 

 lary slender, channelled, about half as long as the leaf, into the 

 base of which it gradually widens. — Stipules membranaceous, flac- 

 cid, oblong, obtuse and rounded, slightly ciliated and sometimes 

 marked with a few toothlets, scarcely stem-clasping at the base, hav- 

 ing their petiol inserted about the middle of their back, persistent, 

 the lowermost forming remote bractes on the base of the stem. — • 

 Peduncles leaf-opposed and terminal, naked, solitary, club-shaped, 

 generally longer than the petiol, sometimes reaching to the middle 

 of the leaf. — Spathe consisting of four equal, white, spreading, per- 

 sistent, obovate or cuneate, obtuse, smooth, veined leaves, during the 

 ffistivaiion imbricating in the shape of a cone, about six lines long.— ■ 

 Spadix cylindric, much lengthened as the flowers decay, generally 

 twice as long as the spaihe and when fruit bearing sometimes mea- 

 suring an inch and a half. Flowers very nun^erous and small, close 

 together, covering entirely the spadix, which they render oblong and 

 obtuse, sub-verticilled, destitute of both calyx and coroi. — Filamenis 

 invariably three, subulate, somewhat longer than the pistils, inserted 



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