item tc ah EN 
Cryptocoryne.} AROIDE. 1105 
leaves sessile, obovate-cuneate, together forming an erect cup. 
Spathe small, shortly stalked, tubular below, open above; spadix 
adnate to the back of the tube of spathe, free above. ¢ Injflores- 
cence of a few sessile, connate stamens below the apex of the 
Spadix; cells opening by vertical slits. waa minute, ¢ 
onn 
In a ring below the males. ¢ Inflorescence a solitary, ovoid-conic, 
1-celled ovary; ovules numerous, basal or subparietal, ortho- 
tropous; style conic; stigma discoi ruit membranous, few- 
se 
. Pistia stratiotes Linn.; F. I. 5 ats . Vi. 497; 
E. D. P. 874. 
In all the provinces ; in ponds. 
A floating, stemless, stoloniferous herb, Hind. Jal- 
khumbi; Beng. Takapana; Uriya Baujhaughé. 
998. Cryptocoryne Fisch. 
Aquatic or marsh herbs; stem short or 0 or a creeping root- 
stock; leaves narrow or broad. Spathe tubular, with mar 
i below. 
cells 2, with conical, perforate tips; pollen vermiform. ? In- 
Rovciccnae a single whorl of connate, 1-celled, many-ovuled ovaries, 
with a few neuters; ovules erect, orthotropous; styles short, 
recurved. Fruit a fleshy syncarp of connate, coriaceous, 2-valved, 
many-seeded carpels, the valves stellately spreading. Seeds 
oblong; testa rugose ; albumen ea embryo axial; plumule 
Sometimes germinating in the frui 
Tube of the spathe narrow, longer than the limb :— 
ont ciliata, 
Limb of spathe glabrous and tube both closely twisted ...retrospiralis. 
Tube of se shorter than the strongly pane toternatly nen ge 
lamellate lim 
2293. CRYPTocoRYNE nee Fisch.; F. B. I. vi. 492. Ambro- 
sinia ciliata F. I. iii. ‘ 
C. and E. Bengal, in sae creeks and ditches. 
A tuberous, stoloniferous, usually submerged herb. 
eng. Kerali. 
