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videntur aggregare in massam mucilaginosam. Stamen initio 
sessile demum cito filamento stipatum. 
Flores feminei aggregati 2-5, szepius forsan 4, Spatha cellu- 
losa membranacea, breve pedunculata, urceolata, vel e tubo 
cylindraceusculo ore subintegra. 
The membranous spathoid body does not always appear to 
belong to the stamen, in some cases where both flowers occur 
together, it rather belongs to the female, does it always belong 
to the prolongation of the axis. ? 
Flores breviter stipitati, stipite demum immulato, e pistillo 
nudo. Ovario oblongo ovato 1-loculare, ovulo unico antitropo 
tegminibus binis et nucles ordinario, pendulo ex apice in- 
ternu loculi, et stylo crassiusculo ex ovarii apice attenuato, 
Stigma maximum albumen subhyalinum subcordatum. 
Fructus compositus ex ovariis (unico szepe abortiente) com- 
pletis basi spathe nunc mucilaginose, reliquis obsitus. Pe- 
dunculo deorsum curvatulo non elongato, pedicellisque vel 
Stipitibus immulatis, 
Carpella oblonga obliqua, secus placentze suturam incurva 
secus latus oppositum concurva, sursum in stylum induratum. 
persistent. Stigmata nunc valde diminuta sphacelata obli- 
qua terminalia indehiscentia ad latus convexum vel dorso ru- 
gosula, extus tenuiter cellulosum intus subdrupaceum, crispa- 
que. Semen pendulum curvatulum subcylindraceum utrinque 
obtusum.  Tegumen unicum e duobus tenuissimis zerretis, 
membranaceo-cellulosum. Micropyle in forma mammille mi- 
nimze apiculi, sed extrorsum spectans. Albumen o. 
Embryo magnus seminis cavitatem implens. ^ Radicula 
longa clavata apice incrassata et medio quasi cuspidata, Co- 
tyledone longissimum subulatum incurvato induplicatum radi- 
culafere duplo longius secus ejus latus internis applicitum 
triplicatum. : 
Piumula oblonga inclusa ad latus exterius baseos cotyle- 
dones diphylla, fissura parva, indistincte. 
Hab. in aquis lene fluentibus dulcibus Quettah. 
This is a curious plant, allied in some points, especially the 
