2j6 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



two, azure, funnel-form, diverging almost hori- 

 zontally. Stigmas lopped, open. 

 Per. Capsule many-seeded. 



Sedds very minute. 



Stem herbaceous, branchy, smooth, pale, creeping* 

 Leaves alternate, short-petioled, most entire, lance- 

 oblong, smooth, acutish. Peduncles mostly axil* 

 lary, sometimes terminal, villous, often many- 

 flowered, subumbelled, three-rayed, with invo- 

 lucres general and partial. Cor ols bright-blue, or 

 violet. Stamens white. The plant is aquatic, and 

 by no means peculiar to Si tan : I have great rea- 

 son, however, to doubt, whether it be the Lan- 

 gali of the Amaracosh) which is certainly the Con- 

 ch- a of Bengal ; for though it was first brought to 

 me by that name, yet my gardener insists that Can- 

 chra is a very different plant, which, on exami- 

 nation, appears to be the Ascending Jussieua of 

 Linkjeus, with leaves inverse-egged, smooth, and 

 peduncles shorter: its fibrous, creeping roots are 

 purplish, buoys white, pointed, solitary ; and at 

 the top of the germ sits a nectary composed of five 

 shaggy bodies, arched like horse- shoes with exter- 

 nal honey-bearing cavities. 



33. Uma': 



Svn. Atasi) Cshumd, 



Vulg. T///, Masana. 



Linn. Most common LiniTM. 



Cal. Perianth five-leaved ; leaflets oblong, acute> 

 imbricated, keeled, fringed minutely, having some- 

 what reflected at the points. 



Cor. 



