Stisum.] FlagellariacecB, 3 1 7 



Fl. unisexual, 1. cirrhiferous i. Flagellaria. 



Fl. dioecious, 1. simple 2. SusuM. 



I. FI.AG&I.X.ARIA, L. 



Lofty climbers ; 1. caudate-acuminate, terminated by a 

 •spiral cirrhus ; fl. bisexual ; fr, a small globose drupe with a 

 fleshy sarcocarp, and 1-3 i -seeded pyrenes. — Sp. 2; i in Fl. 

 B. Ind. 



r. indica, L. Sp. PI. 333 (1753). G-oyi-wel, 5. 



Harm. Mus. 22, 30. Burm. Thes. 35, 138. Fl. Zeyl. n. 133. Moon, 

 Cat. 30. Thw. Enum. 340. C. P. 2301. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 391. Rheede, Hort. Mai. vii. t. 53. Gaertn. Fruct. i. 

 t. 16, f. 9. 



Quite glabrous ; stem climbing lofty trees by the 1. 

 tendrils, nearly i in. thick towards the base, terete, smooth, 

 branches clothed with cylindric, smooth, closed, truncate 

 sheaths ; branchlets as thick as a crow-quill ; 1. sessile, 6-10 

 in., variable in breadth, lanceolate from a rounded base, 

 narrowed into a slender spirally tipped tail, midrib very 

 slender, sheath cylindric; panicle shortly peduncled, 6-18 in. 

 long, loosely irregularly branched ; bracts scale-like ; fl. 

 Y^-^ in. diam., globose, sessile, solitary or clustered on the 

 slender spiciform branchlets; outer perianth-segm. ovate- 

 oblong, unequal ; inner orbicular; anth. as long as the fil., 

 deeply 2-fid at the base ; ov. narrow, trigonous ; drupe 

 pisiform, red. 



Low country, below 1000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Dec; white. 

 Through Trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Stem stout, erect from a creeping rootstock ; 1. very long, 

 -acuminate ; fl. dioecious, outer perianth - segm. orbicular, 

 concave, inner petaloid ; male fl. : — stam. 6, inserted on the 

 base of the perianth-segms., pistillode 3-6-angled or lobed ; 

 fl. fem. : — staminodes small or o, stigmas 3, globose, connate 

 in a 3-lobed disk; fr. a 1-3-seeded berry, with the persistent 

 :Stigmas excentric or lateral. — Sp. 2 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. anthelminticum, Bl. in Schidtes f. Syst. vii. 1493 (1830). 

 Xnduru, S. 



Thw. Enum. 340. C. P. 2738. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi, 391. 



Glabrous, or young 1. and panicle sparsely cottony; root- 

 stock very long, prostrate in mud, | in. diam., subcompressed, 



* Name from oovoov, a lily. 



