2 88 L iliacecp. [ nispomm. 



4. DZANX:Zi]:.A, Lmn. 

 Rootstock branching, stoloniferous; stem erect, clothed 

 with leaf-sheaths ; 1. elongate, rigid, distichous, sheaths 

 equitant; fl. in an erect, rigid, long-peduncled, cymose,nodding, 

 panicle, pedicels jointed at the top, bracts small ; perianth 

 rotate, 6-partite, segm. subequal, oblong, spreading, strongly- 

 veined, marcescent ; stam. 6, 3 hypogynous, 3 inserted on the 

 bases of the segm., fil. short, greatly thickened above, anth. 

 linear-oblong, dorsifixed, dehiscing by apical slits; ov. 3-cclled, 

 cells 4-8-ovuled, style filiform, stigma minute, ovules anatro- 

 pous ; berries blue, few-seeded, testa black, shining, embryo 

 linear, in fleshy endosperm. — Sp. 7 or 8 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



D. ensifolia. Redout c Lil. i. t. i (1802). Monara-petan, S. 



Moon, Cat. 25. Thw. Enum. 338. C. P. 3212. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 337. Bet. Mag. t. 1404 (poor). Wight, Ic. t. 2053. 



Rootstock short, with fibrous roots ; stem 3-6 ft., as thick 

 as a swan's quill, compressed, rigid, leafy ; 1. 1-2 ft. by f-i in.,, 

 rigid, lincar-lanccolatc, acuminate, keeled, costate, dark green, 

 margins and sometimes keel minutely aculeolate, sheaths com- 

 pressed, acutely keeled ; ped. terminal, rigid, sheathed with 

 2 or 3 short 1. ; panicle 1-2 ft., branches flexuous, flowering 

 towards the tips ; bracts small, ovate-lanceolate, pedicels \-\ 

 in., curved ; perianth \ in. broad, segm. oblong-oval, apiculate ; 

 fil. much shorter than the anth., suddenly dilated in the upper 

 half into a broad yellow incurved limb, on which the long 

 much narrower anth. appears to rest, anth. -cells very narrow, 

 tips acuminate ; berry \-\ in. diam, blue ; seeds ovoid, shortly 

 beaked. 



Moist region 1-4000 ft.; common. Fl. April; pale blue. 



Also in Trop. Asia, Australia, and Pacific Is., and in Mauritius. 



5. DISPORUni, Salisb. 



Rootstock creeping ; stem erect, dichotomously branching, 

 angular, leafy; 1. alt., very shortly petioled, oval or ovate, 

 strongly nerved, petiole not sheathing; fl. terminal or axillar\-, 

 solitary, or in few-fld. subumbellatc fascicles, cernuous, pedicels 

 stout, decurved ; perianth campanulate, segm. 6, erect, decidu- 

 ous, costate ; stam. 6, hypogynous, included, fil. short, anth 

 oblong, dorsifixed, slits extrorse ; ov. obovoid, 3-celled, cells 

 2-6-ovuled, style columnar, stigmas 3, recurved or revolute. 

 ovules anatropous ; berry globose, few-seeded ; seeds sub- 

 globose, testa appressed, brown, embryo minute, in horny 

 endosperm. — Sp. 8 or 10; 3 in Fl. B. bid. 



