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Spec. Chae. Leaves large, oblong, cordate, usually growing 

 under -water : petioles 3-sided : calyx spatHaceous, wiaged : flowers 

 white, longitudiaaUy veined. 



Common in tanks throughout the country, flowering in the rains. 



ORDER GLXXVII. FALMACE^. 



Flowers monoBcious or polygamo-dicecipus, seldom her- 

 maphrodite, sometimes -more or less immersed in the hollows 

 of a spadix, often 3-braeteate, the 2 imier bracts opposite-: 

 calyx double, either of the 3 sepals, persistent, inner ones 

 valvate or imbricately convolute: stamens 6, opposite the 

 sepals, perigynous or hypogynous on a fleshy torus, rudimen- 

 tary in the female flowers : filaments free, or connate below : 

 anthers sub-linear, fixed by the back, 2 -celled, dehiscing 

 lengthways : ovaries three, rudimentary or none in the male 

 flowers : ovules solitary, erect, orthotropal : styles as many as 

 the ovarieSj very short, connate into one : stigmas simple, 

 undivided: fruit drupaceous or baccate, surrounded by the' 

 persistent calyx, sometimes 1 — 3-celled with connate carpels, 

 sometimes three-fold with distinct carpels: cells or carpels 

 1 -seeded : seed fiUing the cell, ovate or spherical : mesocarp 

 fleshy or fibrous: albumen thick, cartilaginous, homy or 

 woody, milky, dry or oily, solid or carved out of the ventral 

 or central cavity, sometimes ruminated : embryo undivided, 

 conical or cylindric. 



GENUS I. AEECA. 

 mionoeefa Deeandria. Sex: Syst: 



Beriv. The Malahar name Latinised. 



Gen. Chae. Plowers monoecious on the same spadix, sessile in 

 the depressions of the rhachis, bracteate: males uppermost or 

 below twin surrounding single females: spathe double, either com- 

 plete. Males. — Outer calyx 3-paxted, segments keele'd : irmer 

 3-sepaled : sepals lanceolate, valvate : stamens 3 — 6 — 12 : filaments 

 subulate, cohering at the base : anthers sagittate. Females. — Either 



