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dimidiately-olsovate, 3-sided, transversely wrinkled : embryo axile, 

 Gylindric, tapering, slightly curved, parallel to the hUum, the 

 length sf the albumen : radicle inferior. — Perennial herbs : leaves 

 radical, subulate, triquetrous or broad linear, sheathing below : 

 stem scapiform, erect, simple, or paniculately branched above, 

 naked : flowers pedicelled, salitary, erect, racemose at the apex of 

 the stems or branches: pedicels 1-bracteate at the base, jointed 

 below the middle : calyx white or whitish. 



(1) A. PArCIFEOETJS. f R.W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. t. 2062. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves fistulous, long-tapering, subulate, pointed : 

 racemes terminal : flowers small, short-pediceUed : seed somewhat 

 triangular, blunt, ovate, pointed. 



Sands of the sea coast. 



(2) A. CLAVATUB. fEoxb.} 



Ident. Roxb. flor. Ind. II. 1,48. 



Spec. Chae. Stem naked, branched, annual: leaves erect, 

 straight, cylindric, flstular : filaments clavate above the ciliated 

 base : flowers small, white, with brown keels. 



Peninsula. Interior of Bengal'. Flowering in the cold season, 



GENUS X. FHAtANGIUM. 



Hexandvia Monody nla. Sex: Sysu 



Deriv. From Phalanx a venomous ^ider, whose bi,te the plants', 

 are said to cure. 



GiBN. Chae. Calyx 6-sepaled, coroUaceous, regular, withering 

 persistent, sepals distinct, 3- seldom 5 — 9-nerved, much spreading, 

 three inner ones sometimes broader : stamens 6, inserted at the base 

 of the sepals, erect spreading, filaments filiform, beardiess, anthers- 

 2-celled, introrse, linear or oblong, emarginate, fixed by the back 

 above the 2-lobed base : ovary free, sessile : ovules mimerousi. in 

 two rows, horizontal, anatropal : style filiform, erect, stigmai 

 thickish, papillose, entire: capsule 3-bodied, 3-furrowed, 3-comered, 

 loculicidally S-valved above, valves septiferous in the middle : seeds 

 few, angled, black, shining : testa crustaceous, thin, fragile r 

 embryo axile, slightly curved, almost the length of the fleshy 

 albumen :. radicle looking towards the hilum. — Herbs with fascicled 

 rootfr: stem ereet, scapiform, simple or branched above, leafy : 

 leaves narrow, flat, membranaceous, sheathing at the base : flowers- 

 pedicelledj solitary, twin or fasciculately heaped together, loosely 

 racemose at- the apex of the stem and in the branches, whites 

 pedicels bracteate at the base, articulated abo-ve the base. 



