Flagellaria.] CXLY, FLAGELLARIEX (BROWN) d1 
inner, all oblong, obtuse, subpetaloid. Stamens ultimately much 
exserted ; filaments 2-24 lin. long; anthers linear-oblong, sagittate at 
the base, 14-1} lin. long. Ovary narrow, trigonous ; stigmas 3—3 lin. 
long, linear, rather stout, exserted and recurving over the tips of the 
perianth-segments. Berries globose, 2-3 lin. diam., bright red.—N. E. 
Brown in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 16; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 81. 
#. indica, T. Thomson in Speke, Nile, Append. 650; Hook. Niger 
Fl. 540; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 163; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 
133; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. 4, 3; Durand & Schinz, 
Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 436; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i 
fase. 2, 64; and of other authors partly, not of Linneus. 
Upper Guinea. (old Coast : Aquapim (Acropong) Mountains, Vogel! Cape 
Coast Castle, Vogel, 14! and without precise locality, Burton ! Lagos, Barter, 20172! 
Lagos Island, Barter, 2216! Cameroons: banks of the Cameroon River, Mann, 1! 
425! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa Island, Hildebrandt, 10473! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Angola: Ambriz; on damp wooded hills 
near the town of Ambriz, Welwitsch, 3009! 
South Central. Congo Free State : Luvituku, Zuja, 
Mozamb. Dist. (German Kast Africa: Usambara ; Doda, Holst, 2945 ! Khutu , 
banks of the River Mgeta, Speke & Grant ! Zanguebar, Kirk? Portuguese East 
Africa: near the mouth of the River Shire; at Shamo, Kirk! Morambala Hill, 
Waller ! and at Shimwara Hills, Kirk ! Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! 
Also in South Africa. 
This has been confused with F. indica, Linn., by almost all authors ; but, as was 
pointed out by Schumacher, it may be at once distinguished by the leaf-sheaths being 
open to about half-way down, although the margins often closely overlap, and also by 
the slender zigzag axes, along which the flowers are spaced out, with distinct inter- 
nodes ; whilst in F. indica the margins of the sheaths of the leaves are connate to the 
top, forming a closed tubular sheath, and the flowers are usually crowded together 
into very short subglobose spikes or glomerules, on a rather thick straight axis, 
without internodes or with extremely short ones. 
OrpeR CXLVI. JUNCACEZ. (By J. G. Baker.) 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth inferior, cut down to 
the base into 6 subequal biseriate glumaceous segments. Stamens 
usually 6, hypogynous or attached to the base of the perianth-seg- 
ments; filaments tiliform or flattened; anthers dorsifixed or basifixed, 
2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, 1-3-celled ; ovules 
anatropous, usually many in a cell; style filiform, simple or trifurcate ; 
stigmas filiform, papillose all over. Fruit capsular, splitting into 3 
valves. Seeds ovoid, globose or angled by pressure, rarely compressed ; 
testa thin or moderately thick, pale or black, the thin outer membrane 
often produced into a tail; albumen copious, firm ; embryo small, 
placed near the hilum.—Perennial or annual herbs, rarely shrubs with 
a woody caudex. Stem usually leafy only at the base. Leaves terete 
or linear. Flowers small, usually clustered; bracts minute scariose. 
