S72 r.NL'MERATION OF PLANTS 



GYNANDRIA POLYANDRIA. 



^rexvia 1. V/ith leaves alternate, short petioled, 



tbree nerved, ovate, much pointed, seriated, Iiar^li 

 to the touch. Calyx, iive-|eaved: leaves lance- 

 linear, nerved, spreading. The petals rcsemhle the 

 leaves of the calyx, but are smaller. Filaments 

 numerous, germ roundisb, obtusely four cornered, 

 villous. Stigma headed, depressed, five lobed, or 

 cleft. The flowers are of a greenish white, mostly 

 in threes on one common peduncle; peckinclc:* 

 solitary, and opposed to the leaves. Grows to a 

 small tree, numerous on the islands of the Ganges 

 near Hiirdwar. 



Greida 2. — ^ Leaves alternate, petioled, three nerved, 

 ovate, serrated, tomentose, more so beneath than 

 above, white, and resembling the feel of velvet : 

 petioles very short, downy: peduncles axillary, 

 crowded, short, trichotomous, downy. The flowers, 

 are much smaller than in the preceding species, 

 and of an oraii«;e yellow; the cal3'xes covered with 

 the same v^Ivet-Hke nap, the germ tliickly enve? 

 loped therein, and the younger branches also co- 

 vered with it. This grows to ^ large tree in the 

 mountains about Amaorc. Frnit not seen. 



PotJios. — ^V'lth large hearted petioled leaves, entire, 

 without nerves, smooth. Petioles long, c^rinated, 

 sheathing the st(:m. Flowers not seen; the large 

 cylindrical spadix now crowded with ripe seeds, of 

 an irregular o\i\Xp shape, about the size of a com- 

 mon pea, covered ^ith a soft aril of a* deep 

 red, numerous, and affixed to a common, recep- 

 tacle, tlie whole externally defended by d^ thick 

 capsular covering, internally, marked with as many 

 cells as seeds, externally, with numerous reticu- 

 lated lines, and minutely dotted. On handling 

 the broken pieces of this covering, many shining 

 needle-like points penetrate the skin, and produce 

 irritation. The stems . slender, jointed, sending 

 forth fibres, which spread on the bodies of those 

 tpecs over which they climb. The natives call it 



Haat-phool^ 



