Flagellaria.] ^ cuxt. FLAGELLARIEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 391 
F. indica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 333; leaves sessile lanceolate with sheathing 
bases. Kunth Enum. iit. 370; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 154; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fl. 256; Wall. Cat. 5198; Benth. EI Austral. vii. 10; Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat. iii. 249; Redouté Lil. v. t. 257; Gaerín. Fruct. i. 16, t. 16.— Rheede 
Hort. Mal. vii. t. 53. 
Throughout INDIA, chiefly near the coast, from the SUNDERBUNDS and CniTTA- 
GONG, to CEYLON and SiNGAPORE.— DISTRIB. Trop. Asia and Africa. 
Glabrous, climbing lofty trees; stem thick as the thumb below; branches 
clothed with the closed leaf-sheaths. Leaves 6-10 in., variable in breadth, lanceo- 
ate, tip a slender Spiral tendril, many-nerved, not plaited; sheath 2-auricled. 
Panicle 6-18 in. broad and irregularly branched ; flowers clustered, sessile; bracts 
‘cale-like. Sepals abont 7z in. long, white, subscarious, Stamens exserted ; anthers 
as long as the filaments, deeply 2-fid at the base; ovary narrow, trigonous. Fruit 
Pisiform, red. LF 
, Tat. minor; stem very slender, leaves 3-5 by 4—1 in., panicle 1-3 in. broad. F. 
minor, Blume in Roem. A Sch. Syst. vi. 1493 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 249, § 
Suppl. $98, F, angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 5199.—Malay Peninsula. 
2. SUSUM; Blume. 
Stem stout, erect, simple or branched above. Leaves very long, sessile 
?' petioled, many-nerved. Flowers dicecious, in broad panicles, sessile; 
tacts minute or 0. Sepals unequal, orbicular, concave, inner petaloid. 
ME FL. Stamens 6, adnate to the base of the sepals. Pistillode 3-6- 
angled or 3-lobed, FL. FEM. Staminodes small or 0, stigmas 3, connate in 
i lobed disk. Berry pisitorm, succulent, 1-3-seeded ; stigmas persistent, 
ateral or excentric.—Species 2, Indian and Malayan. 
l S- anthelminticum, Blume in Schultes. f. Syst. vii. 1493; 
panicle broad spreading irregularly branched. Kunth Enum, iii. 371; 
Miquel Fl. Ind.’ Bat. iù. 247; Thwaites Enum. 340. Hanguana, Blume 
num. Pl. Jav. 15, 
Maia iY PENINSULA and PENANG, common. CEYLON, in marshes.— DISTRIB. 
Slands, 
labrous, or oung leaves and panicle sparsely clothed with short cottony 
Pubescence, Stem, 3-5 ft. high, stout, leafy tat tlie tip, or throughoat. Leaves 
M ft. long, long petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, many- and “hin y 
rel, with conspicuous (when dry) cross nervules; petiole 1-3 ft., base sheathing. 
pnicle erect, shortly stoutly peduncled, decompound, rachis and branches stout. 
quers about è in. broad, rather remotely sessile on the branches of the panic e, 
Yellowish ; perianth segments orbicular, concave; filaments short, dilated below, 
anthers ob ong. Berry usually 1-seeded, 
2. S. malayanum, Planch. mss.; more or less pubescent with scat- 
tered white hairs panicle narrow, branches whorled. Veratronia mala- 
Jne Miquel Fl Ind, Bat. iii. 553. Veratrum ? malayanum, Jack in Imin. 
ut \ v.25 (Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 74); Wall. Cat. 3717. T. anthelmin- 
Ge Maury in Rev. Hort. 1889, 77, f. 23. 
ENANG, Perak, Sincarorg and Maracca.—DisrRIs. Malaya. 
hig piseribed by Jack as with the leaves all radical and 3-4 ft. long; We Blumers 
des “scription is taken from a young plant.—It may be kloe Wei intended 
but Fassa" Willdenow) whether this or 5, anthelminticum is the plant intended, 
or he assume that Miquel must have had access to the specimens 0 ily different 
the eodd Not have described S. malayanum as a different genus. If really 
? Species are very closely allied. 
