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GENUS II. VALLISNEEIA. 

 Dloeeta. Dlandria. Sex: Syst: 



Bervo, Named after Antonio Yajlisneri, an Italian botanist- 



Qwsf. Chae. Plo-wers dioecious : Male. Spathe terminating the 

 very short scape, unequally 3-valved, many-flowered : flowers shortly 

 pediceUed, heaped together upon a conical receptacle : perianth 3- 

 parted, valvate in sestivation : staminodes 4, petal-shaped, three 

 unequal, fourth alternate to the sepals: stamens 3, by abortion 2 — 1 : 

 anthers sub-globose, cells contiguous. Female. Spathe termiuating 

 a very long filiform scape, tubular, throat 2-cleft : flower solitary, 

 sessile : limb of the calyx 3-parted : stamiuodes 3, one usually 2- 

 cleft: ovary 1-celled: ovules numerous, anatropal : style almost 

 none : stigmas 3 large, often 2-cleft : berry oylindric, crowned with 

 the limb of the calyx, 1-celled : seeds oylindric.; — Perennial, stem- 

 less, aquatic herbs : leaves sheathing at the base, serrulate at the 

 apex. 



(1) V. AiTEENirouA. (Roxb.J 



IdmL Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 750.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 277. 



Syn. Nechamandra Eoxburghii, Plcmeh. Ann. Soe. Nat. xi. p. 

 79. 



Mfigrm. Hook. Bot. Misc. III. t. xi. 



Spec. Chae. Aquatic, submersed: leaves alternate, grassy, stem- 

 clasping, acute, many-nerved, minutely serrulate : stamens 2 : 

 ovary ovate-lanceolate : ovules parietal. 



Common in tanks everywhere, flowering in the rains. 



(2) V. spiEALis. (lAnn.J 



Ident. E. Br. prod. 201. 



Syn. V. spiraloides,-iJoaiJ. — V. Jacquiniana, Spreng. 



Spec' Chae. Leaves linear obtuse, quite entire, glabrous, nerved: 

 scape spiral. 



Coromandel in. tanks. Patna. Plowering in the rains. 



GENUS III. BLYXA. 



Sioeeia Ootandvia. Sex: Systi 



Gen. Chab. EloTvers dioecious. Males. Spathe terminatihg a 

 short scape, throat 2-cleft, many-flowered, flowers pedicelled: 

 perianth 6-paxted : stamens 3 — 8, filaments filiform : anthers oblong, 



