Vallisneria.] HYDROCHARIDE®. 995 
celled, solitary in a subglobose, muricate spathe; females sessile, 
1-2, in a tubular, 2-toothed spathe. ¢ Sepals 3, ovate or obovate, 
green. Petals 3, oblong or cuneiform. Stamens3; anthers large, 
reniform, opening elastically. Pistillode minute. ¢ Sepals 3, 
linear, green. Petals 3, narrow. Carpels 8, connate in a 1-celled 
ovary, produced beyond the spathe in a filiform beak; ovules 
anatropous; styles 2-3, linear, undivided; stigmas fimbriate. 
Fruit subulate, smooth or muricate. Seeds 2-3, oblong; testa 
shortly produced at each e 
2 DRILLA VERTICILLATA Casp.; F. B. I. E. 
H. 484. Serpicula verticillata F. I. iii. 78. Vdllisnobia 
verticillata F. I. iii. 751. 
In all the provinces. : 
A submerged, leafy, dicecious herb. Vernac. Jhangi, 
kureli. 
886. Lagarosiphon Harv. 
Submerged herbs; ; leaves scattered, fascicled or subverticillate, 
the lower opposite, serrulate. Flowers dicecious ; males minute, 
many, in an ovoid, 2-fid, axillary, sessile spathe ; females solitary, 
sessile, in a narrow, obi spathe. Sepals 3, ‘kee Petals 3, 
rather shorter. ¢ Stamens 8, perfect, opposite the Sea fila- 
ments short; anthers ovate, with often 2-8 staminodes. raed 
lode 0.  Staminodes 0. Carpels 8, connate in an oblong ovary, 
prolonged into a filiform beak ; ovules many, orthotropous ; wale 
3, stout, notched. Fruit ovoid, oblong, or linear; pericarp mem- 
branous. Seeds nu umerous, covered with a thin pulp. 
2009. LaGarostpHon Roxspurcu Benth.; F. B. I. iii, 659. 
Vallisneria alternifolia BP. i. ih: 760. 
In all the provinces 
A oo leafy, dicecious herb. Beng. Rasna- 
jhan 
887. Vallisneria Linn. 
A submerged, tufted, Se stoloniferous a leaves very 
ite linear. Flowers dicec »in an ovoid, 
