Floscopa. | CXXXI. COMMELYNACES. 89 
Ovary contracted at the base or shortly stipitate, 2-celled with 1 ovule 
in each cell; style subulate, with a small terminal stigma. Capsule 
shortly stipitates opmpneste , didymous, vum in 2 valves, Seeds 
solitary in each cell, laterally Menus —Erect or ascending herbs, 
usually creeping at the base. Flow s small, pedicellate and racemose 
along the branches of a dense kanian pani sicle. 
nus is extensively dispersed over the tropical regions of the New as well 
ado bid World, and consists of but very few species, the majority of those pub- 
met reducible to the single Australian one which extends over the whole 
area of t 
. F. paniculata, Hassk. Pl. Jungh. 151.—Stems ascending to 1 
or E ft., usually glabrous. Leaves. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, 2 to 4 in, long, seabrous on the upper side, the sheath 
fringed with long hairs, at least at the to Flowers small, in a dense 
terminal ovate or broad hirsute panicle, 1 to 2 in. long, sometimes 
leafy at the base, the branches simple or the lower ones forked. O = 
pen ianth-segments very hairy, 1 line long or rather more, inner o 
but little longer, bright blue.  Stamens exserted. Vr Aedes 
paniculata, Roxb. qoe Pl. t. 109; also the several ge 
.by Wight, Ie. t. 2079 and 2080, or described by Kunth, 
a iv. 78 al 79, and ar synonyms, quoted in Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
cue Rockingham Bay, common, Dallachy ; Daintree River, Fitzalan. 
idely diffused over tropical Asia, Africa, and Brazil. 
5. POLLIA, Thunb. 
(Aclisia, E, Mey. Lamprocarpus, Blume.) 
ements ap free, 3 outer ones membranous, thin, ist! 
broad and m 
Stamens 
subulate, wi l Fruit ovoid or globular, usually blue 
w shining, —— but dry with a brittle pericarp. Seeds angu- 
iri gig à brown testa.— Tall POLEN usually weak and creeping 
. e e 
eden large. Flowers in terminal thyrsoid pce the 
Primary branches — forming seats aiios whorled.  Braets all 
shorter than the flower 
im genus extends p of th fw 
over tropical and eastern subtropical Asia. e two 
Australian Species one is -— the other reaches the Salomon Islands 
Margin of the leaf-sheaths and etn uite entire. Branches 
9f the oblon g panicle in distinct clusters or whorls . 1. P. macrophylla, 
Margin o sbo e loa d the petiole OE 
crispe Tar sh s — — densel 
crowded .. Meg nU im Da , 2. P. erispata. 
