390 CLX. COMMELINACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Floscopa. 
7. FLOSCOPA, Lour. 
Erect or subscandent herbs. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers in terminal or 
axillary thyrsoid panicles, bracteate ; cymes secund-flowered (not scorpioid). 
Sepals 3, oblong, free. Peta/s free, obovate. Stamens 6, perfect (or o 
imperfect); filaments glabrous. Ovary 2-celled; cells l-ovuled; style 
simple. Capsule 2-celled, crustaceous, loculicidal. Seeds hemispheric.— 
Species about 11, tropical. 
1. F. scandens, Lour. Fl. Coch. 193; glabrous or pubescent, stems 
prostrate, branches suberect, leaves subpetioled acuminate, cymes panic i 
villous or hirsute. Clarke Monogr. 265. $}. paniculata, Hassk. Pl. Jungh. 
157; Commel. Ind. 167. F. Hamiltonii, undulata petiolata and Ha, 
anas, Hassk. Commel. Ind. 166, 167. Dithyrocarpus paniculatus, di 
Enum. iv. 70; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. 34; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. hi 
256. D. Meyenianus and rufus, Kunth l.c. 78, 79. D. petiolatus, Rot n 
and undulatus, Wight Ic. t. 2079, 9080. Tradescantia paniculata, Ror 
Cor. Pl. ii. t. 109; FU. Ind. i. 119; Roth Nov. Sp. 188. T. rufa, Pres 
Rel. Haenk. i. 138. Commelina cymosa and densiflora, Blume Enan | 
4 C. hispida, Ham. mss., and C. Hamiltonii, Spreng. Syst. iv., and a 
post. 25 and v. 186. Aneilema hispidum, Don Prodr. 45; Wall. MN x 
A. cymosum and densiflorum, Kunth Enum. iv. 69. Lamprodithyt 
paniculatus, Hassk. in Flora, 1863, 389. 
Throughout tropical INDIA, in swamps from E. Nepal, Sikkim and the Fo, 
HILLS to TRAVANCORE, Matacoa and CxyroN.—DisTRiB. Eastern Asia 
tropical Australia. ' . tioled ; 
Stem stout, erect, creeping below. Leaves 2-6 by 4-1} in., sessile or pe^ i , 
sheaths lax, short, glabrous or hirsute; mouth ciliate. Panicles shortly pedine ab. 
pyramidal, with long erect or ascending many-fid, branches. Flowers sma pite 
globose, racemose, lower bracteate upper ebracteate; sepals villous ; petals waag. 
lilac or rosy. Capsule } in. long, orbicular, or ellipsoid, acute, compressed, shi 
Seeds glaucous. 
Orver CLXI. FLAGELLANRIEJE. 
Stem tall, leafy, erect or scandent. Leaves many-nerved or plaited, 
petiole sheathing. Flowers small, in terminal panicles, uni- OT print 
Sepals 6, persistent, imbricate. Stamens 6, hypogynous, filament? ft üt 
anthers basifixed, erect. Ovary superior, 3-celled ; style short, 3-cle P 
styles 3; ovules solitary in the cells, anatropous. Fruit a smal ech or 
a drupe with 1-3 pyrenes. Seeds laterally attached, testa membrano, the 
thick, albumen flowery ; embryo lenticular.— Genera 3, species 7-8, 0 
Old World and Pacific. 
BIA 
Stem scandent. Flowers 2-sexual. Drupe 1-2-seeded . 1. FLAGELLA 
Stem erect. Flowers diccious. Berry l-3-seeded . . . . . 2. SUSUM- 
l. FLAGELLARIA, Linn. 
Stem climbing by the cirrhose leaf-tips. Flowers bisexu 
subpetaloid. Style arms 3, entire or 2-partite. Drupe with a t 
lent exocarp and bony 1-2-seeded endocarp.— Species 2, a Fijian 
following :— ` 
al. Sepals 
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