1120 BENGAL PLANTS. [Sagittaria. 
male flowers, with 9-12 in a isp pew ponies filiform, 
compressed. Carpels v , crowded on the large, globose 
or oblong receptacle, hettclslt Wiesallge style insti or apical ; 
stigma papillose; ovary solitary, basilar. Fruit a globose or 
oblong head of flattened, crested or winged achenes. Seed erect, 
basilar ; testa thin ; embryo horseshoe-shaped 
s rising above the surface of the water, hastate or sagittate ; 
stamens about 24 in ¢, reduced to staminodia in the ¢ florets 
prise 
ni pigens eet ovate, deep cordate, obtuse ; stamens 6-10 in ¢, 
n ¢ flor guayanensis. 
2332. SAGITTARIA SAGITTIFOLIA Linn.; F. I. iii. 645; F. B. 1. 
D. 8. 510. 
Chota Nagpur; Behar; Tirhut; N. Bengal. 
A scapigerous herb of pools and sirmaelie: Beng. Muya- 
muya, chhoto-kut. 
2333. eel GUAYANENSIS H. B. K.; F. B.1. vi.561. 8S. cor- 
difolia F i, 647. 
Tn all nies e pro 
A scapigerous eae of pools and marshes. 
1018. Butomopsis Kunth. 
Annual, erect, hice — herbs ; juice milky ; leaves 
radical, elliptic-ac Flowers hermaphrodite, umbelled on a 
scape, longer ae sind ales ; whorls sometimes superposed, 
tea Sepals 3, herbaceous, persistent. Petals 3, mem- 
branous, deciduous, white, larger than the sepals. Stamens 
usually 9, hypogynous, 6 outer in pairs opposite sepals, sometimes 
one of a pair obsolete; 3 inner single opposite petals, sometimes 
one or more replaced by a pair; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. 
Carpels 6-9, whorled on a flat —— sessile, shortly connate 
below, 1-locular; style short; sti somewhat external at apex 
of style; ovules many, small, on fa diate parietal ress 
ascending, anatropous. JFrwit of 6-7 erect, membranous follicles 
Seeds minute, parietal, non numerous, smooth; embryo con- 
Suite horseshoe-shaped. : 
UTOMOPSIS LANCEOLATA Kunth.; F.B. 1. vi. 562. Butomus 
lanceolatus F, I. ii. 315 
In all the provinces. 
An annual herb of marshes and rice-fields ; juice milky- 
