262 Scitaminece. [P/iryinum. 



II. CX.INOGVNS, Sa/islK 



Rootstock stout, insipid, with many vermiform roots ; 

 stems many, branching, leafy ; 1. bifarious, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate ; fl. in pairs on the branches of a terminal panicle ; 

 bracts 2-fld., long, narrow, spathiform ; sep. 3, free, shorty 

 narrow ; pet. 3, conniving below in a tube, subequal, narrow ; 

 staminal tube cylindric, lobes petaloid, obovate, spreading, 

 anth. I -celled, adnate to the sides of one of the lobes ; ov. 

 3-celled, cells 1-2-ovuled, style included, adnate to the staminal 

 tube, tip involute, stigma dilated ; fr. indehiscent, 1-3-seeded ; 

 seeds oblong or subglobose, aril lacerate, flesh}-, embryo 

 hippocrcpiform. — Sp. 7 or 8; 3 in Fi. B. Ind. 



C. virg-ata, Bcnth. in (Jen. PL iii. 651 (1883). G^ta-oluwa, 5. 



Maranta painculata., Moon, Cat. i. M. 7nrgata, Dietr., Thw. Enum. 

 320. C. P. 3465. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 258. Wight, Ic. t. 2015 {M. virgata). 



Rootstock elongate, as thick as a swan's quill, pale, inter- 

 nodes 1-2 in., with lanceolate brown sheaths at the nodes, 

 root-fibres scattered, tortuous ; stem 6-8 ft., very slender, 

 fistular, leafless from the lower 2 or 3 ft., internodes 4-6 in., 

 closely sheathed, lower nodes swollen ; 1. petioled, 4-6 by 

 i-ii in., oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate, glabrous, shining, 

 sheath slender, ligule o; panicle 12-18 in., erect, pyramidal, 

 very loosely di-trichotomously branched, branches very slender, 

 lower 6-10 in., and branchlets plano-convex, smooth, striate; 

 bracts at the forks i in. long, erect, linear, acute or cuspidate, 

 very thin ; fl. shortly pedicelled, about \ in. long ; cal.-sep. 3, 

 small, ovate, acute, erect, free ; cor.-tube very short ; segm. 3, 

 oblong, acute, reflexed ; stam.-tube large, broadly lobed ; 

 stam. I, fil. short, anth. small; fr. \-\ in. long, obovoid-oblong, 

 terete, or unequal-sided, crowned with the cal.-scgm., pubescent, 

 yellow, 2-3-celled, 2-3-seeded ; seeds oblong, aril small, basal, 

 testa brown, glossy. — Sp. 7 or 8; 3 in Fl. B. hid. 



Moist low country; rare. Between Kittul-gala and Yattiantola 

 (Thwaites). Moon's locality is 'Three Korales.' Fl. April; white. 



Also Malabar. 



Moon wrote a full botanical description of this as a new Mara)it,i in 

 a paper ' On Arrowroot,' which was published in full in the Government 

 Gazette for May 12th, 1821, and there is a good coloured figure among 

 his drawings in Brit. Mus. 



12. PHRYNZUM, VVilld. 

 Rootstock stout, tuberous or creeping ; 1. solitary or 2, 

 radical, large, oblong, petiole \er\- long, slender, erect, stem- 



