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GENUS I. PHETNIUM. 

 Monandrta Monogrynia. Sex: Systs 



Deriv. From Phryms a frog, the plants inhabit marshes. 



GrEN. Chae. Calyx 3-leaved : lip (rf the 6-parted corolla smaller 

 than the segments, 2-lohed : filament short, inserted on the inner 

 lateral segment of the corolla : anther terminal : ovary inferior, 

 5-celled : ^ ovules solitary, basilar, campylotropal : style hooted 

 above, stigma incurved: capsule 3-ceIled, locuHcidally 3-valved: 

 fieeds solitary in the cells, uncinate: albumen homy: embryo 

 straight. — Perennial herbs : root creeping, leaves long-petioled : 

 stem^ none or with a 1 -leaved oi' leafy apex : inflorescence radical or 

 terminal, spioately capitate or loosely capitate or panicled. 



(1) P. OAPITAIITM. (Willi.) 



Ident. Willd. sp. I. 17:— Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 8. 



Syn. Phyllodes placentaria. Lour. 



Migrtw. Eheede Mai. XI. t. 34.— Wi^it's Icon. t. .2016. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot tuberous : stem none : leaves radical, oblong- 

 entire, smooth : petioles longer than the leaves, slender and round, 

 flo-wer-bearing : flowers numerous, collected into a largish sessile 

 head, bursting from the anterior margin of the jointed .petioles, 

 pale rose. . 



Concan jungles. Chittagong. Silhet. Assam. , ; Eloweifing^ in 

 the rainy season. 



(2) P. pAEvrPLORiTM. fJRoxb.J 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. p. 7. 



Spec. Chae. Stemless : root tuberous, hairy : leaves long- 

 petioled, elliptic-oval, entire, acute : heads of flowers sub-globose, 

 sessUe, buistiog from the inner side of the petiole near the middle, 

 composed of many imbricated sessile distichous, single or compound 

 spikes : outer bracts broad-ovate, larger, smooth, aU acute-pointed : 

 flowers in pairs, inconspicuous, yeUow. 



Eastern parts of Bengal, flowering at the beginning of the 



(3) P. imbeicattim:. (Eoxb. J 



Ident. Eoxb. L c. p. 6. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves radical, long-petioled, tapering : at both 

 ends, lanceolate, finely acuminate : flower-bearing petioles . with a 



