1078 BENGAL PLANTS. (Hemerocallis. 
3-cornered, transversely rugose, shortly loculicidal, 3- valved cap- 
eds usually few, ovoid, angular ; esta black, shining, 
3. HeEMEROCALLIS FULVA Linn.; F. B. I. vi. 326. 
In gardens generally. 
A showy herb, with paniculate scapes, 2-3 feet high. 
Order CXXXVII. PONTEDERIACEZA. 
Marsh herbs or fresh-water aquatics, erect or floating. Leafy 
stems 1-foliate, springing from the buried rootstock or from the 
joints of the peri stem; basal leaf long-petioled, blade floating 
or upraised. Flowers herm aphrodite, pies irregular, racemed 
or sist, rarely fnslcled or paniculate at the ends of 1 -leafed 
ems or br sessile or ne cesar bract under the 
acute spathe- like; bracts under the flowers minute oF 
obsolete. Perianth Lislesion, petaloid, marcescent, usually tubular; 
lobes 6, Seamer similar, or the 3 inner smaller. Stamens 6 
inate, the upper shorter; filaments free; anthers 
oblong or prer ovate, dorsally or basally adnate ; cells 2, parallel, 
distinct ; dehiscence introrse, longitudinal or porous. Carpels 3, 
connate in a superior, 3-celled ovary, placentas axial; or 1- celled, 
placentas parietal, each placenta with many 2-seriate OV ules, 
sometimes only one in each cell fertile, anatropous, pendulous oF 
suspended ; style filiform or columnar; stigma terminal, entire oT 
obed. Fruit a dry, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved capsule, 
rarely indehiscent. Seeds ovoid or oblong, small; testa ongi- 
tudinally ribbed; albumen floury or hard; embryo central, 
eylindric. ‘ 
973. Monochoria Presl. 
Aquatic herbs ; rootstock short or long, creeping, clothed with 
prealegar @h leaves radical and solitary at the top of the emerging 
or branches, radical long-petioled, cauline rather shorter- 
sien all cordate-ovate, sagittate or lanceolate. Flowers in a 
raceme, sessile within the axil of the cauline leaf, and fasciculately 
long-pedicelled, or peduncled and subspicately short- pedice ed; 
spathe complicate below the raceme. Perianth campanulate; 
tube 0; lobes 6, distinct, subequal. Stamens 6, adnate to base of 
