ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS, 545 



Lang lt as, the fruit, I believe, of a Ren*ealmia, 



and no exact correspondence with any of the genera 



so elaborately described by Koenig : its essential 



character, according to Retz, would consit in its 



two-farted interior border, its channelled filament , and 



its two cleft anther with pointed divisions. 



2. Bhu'champaca: 



Vulg. Bhuchampac. 



Linn, Round-rooted K^mpferia. 



Cal. Common Spathe imbricated, many flowered; 



partial, Perianth one-leaved, small, thin, obscure. 

 Cor. One petaled. Tube very long, slender, sub- 

 cylindric below, funnel - form above, somewhat 

 incurved. Border double, each three parted ; ex- 

 terior, divisions lanced, acute, dropping , interior, 

 two higher divisions erect, lapping over, oblong, 

 pointed, supporting the back of the anther; loiver 

 division expanding, deflected, two cleft ; subdi- 

 visions broad, axe-form, irregularly notched, end- 

 nicked, with a point. 

 St am. Filament adhering to the throat of the cord, 

 oblong below, enlarged, and two-Iobed above, co- 

 loured. Anther double, linear, higher than the 

 mouth of the tube, fixed on the lower part of the 

 filament, conjoined round the pistil, fronting the 

 two-cleft division of the border. 

 Pist. Germ very low near the root, attended with a 

 nee tar eons gland. Sfjle capillary, very long, 

 Stig)na funnel - form below, compressed above ; 

 fan-shaped, two-lipped, downy, emerging a little 

 from the conjoined anther. : 



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