2$Z BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



very long, furrowed, two-cleft at the top ; each 

 division end-nicked. Proper Perianth three-parted ; 

 divisions awled. 

 Cor. Petals three, linear, long, expanding, fleshy. 

 Stam. Filaments invariably nine, thread-form. An- 

 thers erect, oblong, furrowed. 

 Pi st. Germ egged, uneven. Styles always three, 



short, awled, expanding. Stigmas three, simple. 

 Per. Capsule very long, smooth, awled, one -celled, 



infolded in an angled Spa the. 

 Seeds very numerous, murexed, in a viscid mucus. 

 Flowerets from six to fourteen, small. Scape compres- 

 sed, very narrow, fleshy, furrowed in the middle. 

 Pedicel of the floweret thread-form, crimson above ; 

 proper perianth, russet $ petals white ; anthers 

 deep yellow. Leaves sword-form, pointed, very 

 narrow, smooth, and soft, about two feet long, 

 crowded, white at the base. Root small, fibrous. 

 It flourishes in the ponds at Crishna-nagar. The re- 

 finers of sugar use it in this province. If this 

 plant be a Fallisneria, 1 have been so unfortunate 

 as never to have seen a female plant, nor fewer than 

 nine stamens in one blossom out of more than a 

 hundred, which I carefully examined. 

 30, Pu'ticaraja : 

 Syn. Pracirya, Piitica, Calimdraca* 

 Vulg. JNdta'caranja. 

 Linn. Guilandina Bonduccella, 



The species of this genus vary in a .singular man- 

 ner : on several plants, with the oblong leaflets and 

 double prickles of the Bonduccella, I could see only male 



flowers 



