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Gen. Cuar. Styles filiform; stigmas obtuse: capsule globose, 
5-valved; seeds 10, large. 
(1) A. vestcunosa. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p, 84.—Dee. prod. I. p. 319. 
Syn. A. verticillata, Rowb. fl. Ind. I. p. 112. 
Engrav. Pluk. t. 41. f. 6, 
Srec. Cuar. Floating: leaves verticelled: petioles wedge- 
shaped, ending in 4-5 Jong bristly horns, the limb being folded into 
a winged bladder: peduncles axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, about 
twice as long as the petioles; flowers small, white, 
Bengal. Peninsula. 
GENUS II. PARNASSIA. 
Pentandria Trigynia. Sex: Syst; 
Deriv. The plants are feigned to have first sprung up on Mount 
Parnassus. i ‘ 
Grn. Cuar. Herbaceous, marshy plants, with radical, petioled 
leaves: scape with one sessile foliaceous byact dilated under the 
flower : capsule 4-valved: stigmas sessile. 
(1) P. Mysorensis. (Heyne.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 35. 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. t. 21. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves cordate, somewhat reniform: lobes over« 
lapping: bract cordate, embracing the scape: 5 fertile and 5 sterile 
stamens: sepals broadly-oval: petals oval-oblong, entire or slight- 
ly toothed on the margin, unguiculate, longer than the sepals; 
sterile stamens about half the length of the fertile ones, cleft ups 
wards into three thickish segments: stigmas 3: flowers yellow, 
Mysore, 
(2) P. Wieyriana, (Wall.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 35. : 
Engrav, Wight’s Spicil. t. 13.—Ill. t. 21.—Tc. t. 945. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaves cordate-ovate: bract leaf-like, embrace 
ing the scape; lower half of the petals cut into linear, simple or 
forked segments resembling a fringe: claw very short and broad; 
sterile stamens as long as the fertile ones, cleft upwards into 3-5 
horn-like glanduliferous segments: flowers large. 
Swampy places in the Neilgherries. Flowering in the rainy 
season, : 
