AMonochoria.] CLVII. PONTEDERIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 363 
P. saggitata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 124; Wall. Cat. 5093. P. dilatata, Andrews 
ot. Rep. vii. t. 490; Buch. Ham. in Symes Embass. 475 with plate; Roxb. 
Le.198; Wall. Cat. 4094. P. sagittitolia, Herb. Heyne. 
Common throughout INDIA and CEYLON.—DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China. 
Rootstock spongy ; flowering stems short. Zeaves 6-7 by 5-6 in., obtuse or 
acute, many-nerved ; petiole of the floral leaf tumid above and embracing the 
short scape, of the radical 18-24 in., broad and sheathing at the base. Inflorescence 
centrifugal; flowers long-pedicelled, 2-1 in. diam., violet-blue dotted with red; 
pedicels 1 in. or less; larger sepal obovate, smaller oblong. Filament spurred. 
Large anther blue, the others yellow. Capsule } in. diam., subglobose or oblong. 
2. M. vaginalis, Presl Relig. Henk. ii. 128; rootstock short, leaves 
long-petioled, from linear to ovate and ovate-cordate, flowers short- 
celled subspicate. Kunth Enum. iv. 134; Solms Laub. in A.DC. Monogr. 
Phanerog, iv. 924; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 548. Pontederia vaginalis, 
Linn. Mant. 228; Roch. Fl. Ind. ii. 121; Cor. Pl. ii. t. 110; Wall. Cat. 
9005; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 243. —Rheede Hort. Mal. ii. t. 44. 
Throughout INDIA; from Kashmir eastwards to Assam and southwards to 
Travancore and Singapore. CEYLON common.—DisTRiB. Malay Islands, China, 
Japan, Trop. Africa, . 
Rootstock suberect (creeping, Roxburgh). Leaves much as in M. hastefolia, 
ut few-nerved, Inflorescence centripetal, few- or many-fld. ; flowers blue, sprinkled 
with red, very variable in size, pedicels shorter than the perianth. Filaments and 
anthers as in’ M, hastefolia.—A most variable plant. 
" Var, plantaginea, Solms Laub. l. c.; smaller, leaves often narrow, raceme 
*w-üd. M, pauciflora, Kunth ó^ Miquel ll. ee, M. linearis, Mig. l.c. Pontederia 
plantaginea, Zoch, 1. c. 123; Wall. Cat. 5096. P. pauciflora, Blume Enum, Fl. 
4.1.32, p. racemosa, Herb. Ham. —1India, Java. 
Orper CLVIIIL. PHILYDRACEZ. 
„Erect herbs. Leaves narrowly linear. Flowers small, in bracteate 
Spikes or panieles, bisexual, irregular. Perianth inferior, 2-partite; seg- 
ments antero-posterior, petaloid, persistent. Stamen 1, inserted on the 
: æ of the anterior segment, filament flattened; anther straight or 
Hate: staminodes 2, alternate with the sepals, small, petaloid. Ovary 
styl celled, or 1-celled with 3 projecting parietal many-ovuled placentas ; 
hi € terminal, Stigma entire ; ovules anatropous. Capsule loculicidal, 3- 
! Ved. Seeds many, small, albumen fleshy, embryo minute.—Genera 3, 
Pecies 4, Asiatic, Australian and Pacific. 
PHILYDRUM, Banks. 
Spike simple. Anthers at length twisted. Ovary l-celled. 
P, lanu -s in Qærtn. Fruct. i. 62, t. 10, f. 10; Kunth 
^ en üi. ënn awe sg, in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 342, 
|? ; Miquel Fi. Ind. Bat. iii. 950; Guillem. Ic. Pl. Austral. t.5; Benth. 
frai, vii, 74; Caruel in A.DC. Monogr. Phanerog. iii. 2; Schleid. A 
"d in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. 40, f. 1; Griff. Notul. iii, 281; Ic. 
* Asiat, t, 269, 270. Garciana cochinchinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochin. i. 15. 
NIE, the ANDAMAN IsLANDS and the MaLAY PENINSULA.— DISTRIB. China, 
tuds, Australia, 
