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PLATE COCGG. 
PONTEDERIA RPeua tl AT x. 
Dilated Pontederia. 
CLASS VI. ORDER L 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Catyx. =— communis, ise. latere de- EmpaLemMent. Spathe common, oblong, open- 
hiscen ing sideways, 
Corowta tachiodtstn, Biossom one-petalled, 6-cleft. 
Stamina. Filamenta a5 aie inserta. An- Cuives. Threads six, inserted into the blossom. 
| there ablonge, Tips oblong. 
PistTiLLuM, Germen oblongum, inferum, Pointat, Seed-bud oblong, beneath. Shaft 
Stylus sim simple. 
ie "Cali trilocularis, triangu- SeeD-vessEL. Capsule three-locular, three- 
angled. 
Semrina plurima. SEEDS sae any. 
Oss. In quibusdam s i germen est supe- Ozs. In some species the seed-bud is above, in 
rum: in aliis inferam _ others beneath. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
PonTepeRia germine supero : foliis ae PonTEDERIA with the arg a above : leaves 
is, vel acutis: floribus umbellati shee se obtuse, or pointed: 
is, ceruleis, : owded umbels, OF 2 a blue colour. 
Habitat in India Orientali, Native of “the East Indies. - 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, A blossom spread open. 
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
3. The plant in miniature, 
Tats handsome aquatic is a native of the East Indies, and figured in Col, Syms’s Embassy to the King- 
dom of Ava, under the title of Pontederia dilatata. On examining some plants in the hot-house of 
J. Vere, esq. (whence our figure was taken) we observed so much yariation in them, that we are in- 
clined to think the P. hastata of Dr, Roxburgh’s Coromandel Plants represents (from a weak plant) 
the same species our figure delineates, 
