Pharus. monoecia hexandria. 611 



17. A. spinosHS. Willil. iv. 393. 



Erect, ramous, round, with sharp spines in the axills of the 

 leaves. Spikes terminal, simple, with sessile, axillary glo- 

 merules. 



Telinfj. Mulloo tota Kara. 



Betuf. and Hind. Kanta n?aeeya. 



A very troublesome weed, particularly during the rainy 

 and cold seasons. 



MONOECIA HEXANDRIA. 



PHARUS. Schreb. gen. N. 4. 1434. 

 Male calyx; glume two-valved, one-flowered. Corol ; 

 glume one or two-valved. Female calyx ; glume two-valved 

 one-flowered. Corol ; (jlume one or two-valved. Style single. 

 Stigma three ; seed solitary. 



P. itrceolatus. R. 



Panicles umbelled ; both male and female flowers pedun- 

 cled, and with a one-valved, pitcher-shaped corol. 



A native of Pulo Pinang. 



Root creeping, perennial. Leaves bifarious, petioled, 

 broad-lanceolate, smooth on both sides, and entire; from four 

 to five inches long, and from one to two broad. Petioles, 

 lower portion sheathing; above the sheathing portion, which 

 ends ill a bearded mouth, there remains about one inch, whicii 

 is concave within. Racemes digitate, each bearing from four 

 to six female flowers, all pedicelled ; the lower, and upper 

 ones accompanied with a male flower each, so that there are 

 only two males to the spike. Male flowers. Calyx ; glume 

 two-valved, one-flowered. Corol ; glume one-valved, open- 

 ing on one side from the apex. Filaments six, the length of 

 the corol. Anthers linear, there is only the rudiment of a 

 three-pointed germ. Female flowers. Calyx ; glume two- 

 leaved, one-flowered. Corol; (//<(mc one-valved, pitcher- 



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