479 



(1) P. iEoxPTiACA. fSchleid.J 



Ident. Schleiden in Bot. Zeit. 1838, No. 3, p. 19. 



' Byn. P. stratiotes, Selile, 20. — Stratiotes aesyptia, Moris hist. 

 III.t.A. 



Spec. Chab. Leaves cuneate-obcordate : nerrea a little promi- 

 nent, tmiting in a minute basilar area. 



Coromandel. 



(3) P. CEispiTA. fBhtme.J 



Ident. Blnme Eumphia 1. 78-79 (ex parte). ScMeid. 1. c. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves oboordate ; narrow-cuneiform : nerves sim- 

 ple, free as far as the base. 



Pondicherry. 



ORDER CLXXX. AEACEiG. 



Herbaceous plants vsfith tubers or creeping rhizome, stem- 

 less or caulescent, or under-shrubs : leaves usually collected 

 together above the rhizome or at the apex of the stem, alter- 

 nate : petioles sheathing, nerves of the leaf palmate, pedate 

 or peltate, often cut at the base, cordate or hastate, quite 

 entire or variously dissected, convolute in vernation: scape 

 radical or axillary, enclosed by sheaths at the base of the 

 leaves, ending in an undivided spadix : spadix sessile or 

 ^talked in the axil of a 1-leafed, often coloured, persistent or 

 deciduous spathe, sometimes all beset with flowers, sometimes 

 ending in a barren appendage: flowers usually unisexual, 

 seldom hermaphrodite, frequently androgynous, the females in 

 the lower, the males sessile in the upper part of the spadix, 

 continuous or separated by a sterile interstice : perianth none 

 or rudimentary in the hermaphrodite flowers: stamens nu- 

 merous, free or variously connate : anthers extrorse, usually 

 2-celled, cells immersed in a thick cormectivium, dehiscing 

 lengthways, or by a cleft or pore of the vertex : ovaries most 

 frequently aggregated, free or connate, 1 — many-celled : ovules 

 solitary, or many, basilar or parietal, erect sessile, or ascending 

 from cords, seldom anatropal : style none or simple : stigma 



