3 1 6 Flagellariace(2. 



subglobosely didymous, subcompressed, thinly crustaceous,. 

 loculicidally 2-valved, 2-seeded; seeds flattened on one side, 

 dorsally umbonate, with the embryo under the umbo. — Sp. 

 1 1 ; I'm Fl. B. lud. 



P. scandens, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 193 (1790). 



Tradcscantia pcDiiculata., Roxb. Moon, Cat. 24. F. pam'culaia, Hassk.^. 

 Thw. Enum. 323. Clarke, Mon. 265. C. P. 553. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 390. Wight Ic. t. 2079 and 2080 {Dithyrocarpiis 

 petiolatus, D. Rothii and D. tmdulatus). 



Stem 1-2 ft, rather slender, naked below with long inter- 

 nodes, rooting at the nodes ; branches ascending, leafy above,, 

 glabrous or pubescent; roots of stout fibres; 1. subpetioled, 

 2-6 by \-i\ in., lanceolate, acuminate, scaberulous above, 

 beneath glabrate or pubescent, base narrowed, sheath glabrous- 

 or villous, mouth fringed with long hairs ; panicle terminal, 

 sessile or shortly peduncled, erect, subpyramidal, villous or 

 hirsute, branches (cymes) 1-2 in. long, slender, ascending, 

 shortly stipitate, many-fld.; fl. pedicelled, small, subglobose, . 

 lower bracteate, bracteoles minute ; sep. broad, villous ; pet. 

 broadly obovate ; fil. longer than the pet., anth. didymous ; 

 ov. glabrous ; capsule rather broader than long, shining, 

 jV-|- in. diam., abruptly subacute at both ends ; seeds pale, 

 glaucous, dorsally transversely wrinkled. 



Shady places in moist low country ; rather common. Fl. Dec.-Feb. ; 

 pale pink. 



Also throughout E. Asia and Trop. Australia. 



CXXXVII.-FLAGELLARIACE^. 



Tall perennials, erect or climbing ; 1. alt., elongate, with 

 many parallel veins, flat or plicate, sometimes ending in a 

 tendril ; fl. small, green or pale, uni- or bisexual, in shortly 

 peduncled, terminal, much-branched panicles; bracts at the 

 base of the panicle leafy, floral minute or o; fl. small, perianth 

 inferior, rotate, 6-partite, segments sub-biseriate, subequal, 

 imbricate in bud, persistent; stam. 6, hypogynous or inserted 

 on the bases of the segments, fil. filiform, free, anth. erect 

 dehiscent introrsely ; ov. superior, 3-celled, cells i-ovuled,. 

 style short, 3-cleft, or styles 3, or stigmas sessile, ovules 

 anatropous; fr. small, globose, indehisccnt, more or less fleshy, 

 3-celled or with 1-2 pyrencs; seeds various, embryo minute,, 

 in floury endosperm. 



