Yagratd. "piktajtdria mon0gymia. 31 



2. M. indica, Willd. Spec. i. 811 * 



Petioles viviparous ; leaves round-cordate. Upper side of the carol 

 hairy ; nectaries none. Stigma three-lobed. Seeds obovate. 



Hind and Beng. Bara-chooh". 



Teling. Antara-tamara. 



Nedel-Ambel, Rheed. Hort. Mai. 11. p. 55. t. 23.f 



Cumud, Asiat. Res. vol. iv. p. 254, N. 30. 



Like M. cristata it is found floating on sweet water lakes, Sec. in 

 Bengal. I never met with it on the coast. Flowering time the cold 

 season. 



Leaves petioled, round-cordate; margins slightly waved, some- 

 what fleshy, smooth, when full grown about a foot or more each 

 way. — Petioles round, length various ; frotn a tuberosity near the 

 apex, there issue flowers, other leaves, and roots ; each leaf there- 

 fipm becoming a new plant, as in M. cristata. — Calyx from five to 

 six-pnrted. — Corol expanding ; tube short, yellow ; border from five 

 to six-parted, divisions lanceolate, the upper side thickly clothed with 

 long white tilaments. Nectaries wanting, or minute. — Filaments as 

 many as the divisions of the calyx and corol, ascending. Anthers 

 erect. — Stigma three-lobed, curled. — Capsule one-celled. Recep~ 

 tacles thr^e, running down the inside of the capsules. — Seeds nu- 

 merous, obovate. 



FAGRJEA. Schreb. Gen. N. 276. 



Calyx five-ieaved, imbricated. Coronnfundibuliform with an 

 imbricated five-cleft border. Berry oval, two-celled. Seeds many. 



• Curt- Bot. Ma?. 658. — Villarsia, Ventenat.— This plant, or as I suspect a dis. 

 tinct species, is frequent in Nepala, and called Laphakang( la signifying water ia 

 the Nawar language, phnkang, a sort of Arum); the natives of that country eat 

 the young stalks in their curries-r-N. W. 



t Nymjhaea ceramic*, Humph. Amb. vi. 173. t. 72. f. 3—N. W. 



