246 flora indica. [Nymphaacea . 



beruUs, pedunculis extra-alaribus, floribus extus luride viridibus intus 

 rubris v. purpureis inodoris, bacca magnitudine cerasi pulposa putre- 

 dine dehiscente. 



1. B. longifolia (Wall. Linn. Soc. Trans, xv. 442. t. 18.)— Hook. 

 Ic. PL t. 809, 810, et in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3. xvii. 301. t. 21 ; Griffith, 

 Not. PL Asiat. i. 218. t. 57./.; Planchon, Etudes des Nymph. Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. Ser. 3. xix. 56. 



Hab. In Pegu ad Rangoon, Wallich! Tenasserim ad Martaban, Lobb! 

 et Mergui, Griffith! — (Fl. hieme.) (v.s.) 



Rhizoma (ex sicco) breve, perpendiculare, \— f unc. longitudine, fibras plurimas 

 crassas demittente, pilis erectis mollibus dense intertextis villosum. Petioli spithamsei, 

 graciles. Folia petiolis jcquilonga, 1—1^- unc. lata. Flores $~-l-| unc. longi. Sepala 

 lineari-oblonga, costa crassa exserta percursa. Petala sub-3-seriata, brevia, obtusa, 

 insequulia. Stamina superiora ad filamenta brevia hamata reducta. 



Suborder II. Cabombe-®. 



Sepala et petala definita, libera. Stamina toro inserta, hypogyna. 

 Ovaria 3-18, disco v. toro explanato inserta. Ovula 2-3, suturae dorsali 



inserta. 



4. BRASENIA, Sehreb. 



Sepala 3. Petala 3, sessilia, linearia, sepalis alterna. Stamina 12- 

 18; antheris linearibus, rimis lateralibus dehiscentibus. Ovaria 6-18, 

 cylindracea, apice breviter angustata, dein in stigmata intus longitudi- 

 naliter villosa subdilatata. — Herba aquatica, rhizomate repente, caule 

 ramoso, pedunculis petiolisque mucilagine indutis, foliis alternis peltatis 

 elliptico-oblongis penninerviis , pedunculis axillaribus apice subincrassatis, 



floribus rubris. 



The remarkable little water-plant upon which this genus is founded is a native of 

 the United States of North America and Canada, and was found early in the present 

 century by Mr. Brown in Australia, and latterly by Griffith in the Khasia Mountains 

 and Bhotan. Being inconspicuous, it is probably not so rare as is supposed to be the 

 case. We are quite unable to detect any difference between our specimens which we 

 have preserved in spirits, and the excellent analysis in Gray's ' Genera of United 

 States Plants,' except that the filaments and dorsum of the sepals are puberulous. 



Asa Gray observes that the curious mucilaginous covering of the peduncles and pe- 

 tioles is formed by the rapid formation and rupturing of successive epithelial cells, as 

 mucilage is formed on the surfaces of animal mucous membranes ; we may observe that 

 the gelatinous coat of the seeds of various Composite and Crucifera is quite analo- 

 gous. Gray further states that the rhizoma contains oblong transversely annulated 

 starch -grains of unusual size, the larger being ^-5 inch long. 



1. B. peltata (Pursh, Fl. Bor. Am. ii. S89).—Torrey et Gray, Fl. 

 N. Am. i. 55. Hydropeltis purpurea, Richard, in Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. 

 i. 324. t. 29, et in Ann. Mus. xvii. 230. t. 5./. 22 ; Sot. Mag. t. 1147 ; 

 DC. Syst. ii. 37, Prodr. i. 112.— Griff. Bin. Notes, p. 160. 



Hab. Khasia prope Nonkrem, Griffith, et ad Joowye, alt. 4500 ped.! 

 Bhotan, ad Santagoung prope Panaka, alt. 6000 ped., Griffith. — (FL 

 restate.) (v. v.) 



