t 
. Scat 
Podostemon.] cxx. roposrEMONacEm. (J. D. Hooker.) 65 
the ovary, capsule 6-ribbed. Dicræa stylosa, Wight Ic. t. 1917, f. 9; Wedd. 
in DC. Prodr..xvii. 70. 
MALABAR; in mountain streams, near Calicut, Johnson. TRAVANCORE; in 
streams of the Anamallay Hills, Wight. . 
The long stigmas distinguish this species. 
9. P. elongatus, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 188; stems 
long filiform subsimple terete floating below and branches flowering, tips elong- 
ate leafy flowerless, leaves acicular, flowers distichous in spikes or comaa 
terminating short branches, capsule ellipsoid. Dicræa elongata. Tul. in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser: 3, xi. 102, and Monogr:. Podost. 194, t. 9, f£. 2; Wight Ic. 
t. 1917, f. 1; Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 70. 
CEYLON; in the Mahawalle Gunga River, below Peradenyia, Gardner. 
Stems tufted, 1-2 in., clothed with distichous buds ; upper buds doworless, Er 
sisting of clusters of linear or subspathulate leaves 3—1 in. long. ; pee uds pi t 
shaped acute keeled leaves connate at the base and enclosing the Pres Ap "e 
funnel.shaped, mouth 2-fid. Filament stout, equalling the ovary and r ig . €— 
nodes ; anthers oblong. Capsule sessile on the fruiting pedicels, which ter 
short leafless branches, 8-12-ribbed ; stigmas ovate, acute. 
4. P. algeeformis, Benth. in Gen. Plant. iii. 112; stems long com- 
pressed floating simply or dichotomously branched from the baso, branches 
Strap-shaped simple or forked obtuse, flowers on the margins p hich the 
below or branches, pedicel with minute leaves at the base, o "hi Di rea 
inner are large and concave, capsule elliptic-oblong es a ; p C 
algeformis, Beddome in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 223, t. 24; We in I rn. 
Prodr. xvii. 70; Warm. in Videlsk. Selsk. Skr. vi. 2, t. 12; Trim. in Journ. 
Bot. xxiii. (1855). 173. ; 
TRAVANCORE; on rocks in streams of the Anamallay Mts., Beddome. CETAN; 
near Kandy, Trimen. 
Stems tafted, dark green, i in., like a Fucus ; branches unequal, neds long 
Clustered. Spathe with a dilated 2-3-fid mouth. Staminodes 2-3, subulate, a 
"88 the ovary. Filaments connate below ; anthers oblong. Stigmas subulate.—Mr. 
a N 1 be- 
emsley, who has examined the Ceylon specimens, regards them as intermediate 
tween P. algeformis and Wallichii. 
. ‘Hist. vii. 184; stem 
5. P. subulatus, Garda. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 184; ste 
short simple or dichotomous, branches short leafy, leaves amplexicaul as 
tichous elongate-subulate, pedicels short, stigmas subulate-lanced’ EN » 
in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, xi. 103, and Monogr. Padost. 135, t. 9, f. oP dom 
DC. Prodr. xvii. 74; Wight Te. t. 1918, f. 1; Thwaites Enum. 222. P. 
droides, Thw. mss, 
CEYTON; on rocks in the Mahawalle Gunga River, near Holnicut. . 
Stems stout, rough, 1-1} in., attached to stones by a small fleshy depressed rootaton. 
Leaves 1-25 in., base very broad, with rarely a short stipule on the margh Songer 
sheath. Spathe broadly tubular, 2—4-lobed unequally. ipie pem Ads 
than the ovary ; staminodes shorter, narrowly linear. Capsule ellipsoid, usually 
Peduncled ; valves 8-ribbed, one falling before the other. 
Sect. II. Polypleurum. Stem flat dilated frond-like. Flower-buds 
tered or submarginal, with few scales. 
6. P. Hookerianus Wedd. in DO. Prodr. xvii. 74; plant an irre- 
gularly dilated thickish sinuate or lobulate frond with marginal 1-fld. buds 
Of about 6 distichously imbricate ovate obtuse or acuminate leaves, capsule 
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