Jl$ rsxTAKSRiA M0NP6VNIA. Sphenoclea, 



leaves, naked. Calycine hernia linear, acuminate, toothed, a little 

 longer than the tube. 



This is a very common plant in the valley of the mountains of Ni« 

 pal, delighting in shady moist places, near water.courses and springs, 

 Jt blossoms and is in fruit nearly the whole year round ; chiefly how- 

 ever, in the rains. It differs from the other species of this extensive 

 genus in having njieshy round berry of the size of a large pea, pur- 

 ple, smooth, two*cel!ed, with numerous flattened brownish seeds at« 

 Cached to two thick septal placentas. 



SPHENOCLEA. Gart. carp. i. 118. tab. 34. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol one-petailed. Capsule inferior, two- 

 celled. Seeds numerous, 



1. S. zeylanka, Willd. Spec. i. 927. 



Pongati, Rheed. Mai. ii- 47. U 24. 



Sphenuclea pongatium, Lamarck. 



Gaerinera Fangati, lietz. Obs. vi. p. 24* 



JBenii Jeel nw/ieech. 



Teiing. Nceioo-pfpi«. 



An erect annual ; a native of watery places. Flowers during the 

 wet season.* 



Root fibrous, annual.— Stem erect, round, ramous, smooth, glos- 

 sy, jip^d. Branches alternate, ascending. — Leaves alternate, short- 

 petioled, lanceolar, entire, tender, smooth, from two to three inches 

 long, and half an inch broad. — Stipules none. — Spikes terminal, 

 or leaf-opposed, peduncled, cylindric, middle-sized, closely surround. 

 <ed with the fructifications. — Bractes small, three-fold, one-flowered; 



* This plant which is very common over all parts of Hindoost'han is undoubted* 

 !y Loureiro's Raplnia herbacea, as lias been proved by Mr. Dryander and Mr, 

 Brown. See Rees's Cyclopedia, under Rapinia aud Sphenocleaj aild appeadix to 

 Yuckey's expedition, p. 483.— N. W. 



