CLIII. TACCACEZ, (J. D. Hooker.) 237 
brown or lurid; involucre of 2-6 spathes ; bracts very long, filiform, like 
pedicels. Perianth Superior, urceolate or subcampanulate, 6-lobed in 2 
series. Stamens 6, at the base of the lobes, filaments very short, base 
dilated or appendaged on each side, above it dilated into an inflexed hood, 
with 2-ribs or horns on the inner surface ; anthers sessile within the hood. 
Ovary l-celled ; style short, included, stigmas 3 broad or petaloid and re- 
flexed like an umbrella over the style; ovules many, on 3 parietal placentas, 
auatropous or subamphitropous. Fruit indehiscent baccate or at length 
valved, 3-6-ribbed. Seeds numerous, ovoid, testa appressed striate ; 
albumen hard; embryo minute.—Species about 10, tropical. 
1. TACCA, Forst. 
CHARACTER OF THE ORDER. 
l. T. pinnatifida, Forst, Plant. Esculent. No. 28; Char. Gen. 69, 
t.35; leaves tripartite segments 2-3-fid or irregularly pinnatifid or pin- 
nate at the base, petiole and scape long smooth, invol. leaves 4-12 or more 
yibequal oblong acuminate, perianth lobes conniving subequal. Koch, Fl. 
"ZK 172; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 230; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 276; 
Benth, FI, Austral, vi. 4:8; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 566; Kunth Enum. 
e 25: Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 699. Regel Gartenfl. t. 582; Lamk. Encycl. 
a DT: Treviran. Symbol. t. 54, 55; Griff. Notul. 238; Te. Pl. As. t. 272A. 
' Pnnatifolia, Gertn. Fruct, i. 43 t. 14. 
The Concans, and CENTRAL INDIA; Hazarebagh, Vicary; Chota Nagpore, 
Aust a MALAYAN PENINSULA; Malacca and CEYLON, Trincomulee.— DISTRIB. 
ho. A Malayan and Pacific Islds. . . 
l dch globose, 1 ft, diam, under cultivation. Leaves 2-3 ft. diam. ; petiole 
10-40.4 Scape tapering, longer than the petiole, striped dark and light green, 
filiform t ; flowers drooping ; invol. leaves lanceolate, recurved, striped with purple; 
obes Tacta very numerous. Perianth greenish, subglobose, 2 in, diam., fleshy, 
margined with purple. Fruit size of a pigeon's egg, 6-ribbed, yellow. 
or 2 Ee cristata, Jack. in Mal. Misc. I. No. v. 23; leaves either oblong 
get 'ptic-lanceolate, petiole and tall scape smooth, 2 inner involucra 
much s very large foliaceous erect with stout flat petioles, 2 outer 
peri smaller sessile ovate acuminate cuneate, flowers dark purple, 
manth-lobes spreading and recurved, 3 inner much the largest, orbicular. 
leg FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 578. T. Rafllesiana, Jack. in Wall. Cat. 5172. 
soea cristata, Kunth Enum. v. 466; Bot. Mag. t. 4587. Lemaire Jard. 
w, t. 186, 187. Flore des Serres, t. 860, 861. 
tp PENINSULA; Mi ingapore. 
o stock conie, Ge e e e petiole very stout, brown- 
4 in, revolute brown-purple, inner 6 in., elliptic, obtuse, stronglv 
` » green, narrowed Ento a very stout compressed brown-purple 
; flowers drooping, pedicels stout filiform; bracts 6-8 in., pendulous, 
ong, all Md 1} in. diam, ; outer lobes oblong, acute, inner rounded broader than 
6-ribbed at ength reflexed ; throat with a thickened crenate ring. Ovary turbinate, 
*- Stigmatic lobes ciliate. 
3. T. inte ; ; leaves entire 
nut £rifolia. Ker.-Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1488; leav 
Kc petiole and short stout scape rough, 2 inner invol. leaves 
ovate arge, Spreading foliaceous petioles slender, 2 outer smaller sess e 
acuminate, flowers pale, perianth lobes spreading and reflexed, 
