Impatient* pentandria monogynia. 4j& 



broad, sub-reniform, its back convex, somewhat keeled, and furnish- 

 ed with a short, conical, curved horn. Lateral petals large and pro- 

 trudinor • their inner margin uneven, and inserted by means of a short 

 hooked claw ; the outer one two-Iobed, lobes rounded, pretty equal 

 in size. — The fourth petal or nectary is pubescent, beautifully veined, 

 somewhat contracted near the middle, its mouth almost circularly 

 truncate, its apex ending abruptly in a very narrow, cylindric, ascend- 

 ing spur, which is only one-third of the whole length of the body of 

 the nectary. — Capsule ovate, oblong, perfectly smooth. — N. W. 



S. I. natans, JVilld. spec. i. 1 175. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate. Peduncles three-flowered. Ber- 

 ries five-seeded. 



Telinga. Neer-Ganaroo, i. e. water Oleander. 



This is a large annual species ; a native of ponds, ditches, Sec. of 

 sweet water. It flowers during the rainy and cold season. 



Stem piped, all the parts that grow in, or float on the water, bending 

 in various directions, and being often some yards in length ; the part 

 above the water is erect, branchy and from one to two feet high. 

 The former part is jointed, with roots from the joints, and the pipe 

 interrupted there : the erect part five-sided, smooth, coloured, as 

 thick as the fore-finger; pipe interrupted at the leaves, as in the float- 

 ing parts. — Leaves sessile, scattered, lanceolate, seriate, smooth; from 

 four to five inches long, and less than one broad ; there is a gland on 

 each side of the base instead of stipules. — Peduncles axillary, solita- 

 ry, generally three-cleft, three-flowered. — Bractes (Involucres) ob» 

 long. — Flowers large, very beautifully variegated with red, white, and 

 yellow. — Pericarp. Berry, sub-globular, five-grooved, succulent, 

 smooth, red, size of a cherry. — Seeds five, hard, nut-like, obliquely 

 oblong, lapped over at both ends. 



When in flower, this is one of our most elegantwater plants. 



Obs. by NJV. 

 Roth surmises (Nov. Spec. 104) that I. triftora, L, is this plant; 



