342 Typhacece. [Freyanetta. 



Stem as thick as a goose-quill, internodes short; branches 

 spreading, strict or recurved; 1. 5-7 by ^-J in., narrowed from 

 the base to the acuminate tip, margins closely minutely 

 spinulose, dark green above, striated, paler beneath; infl. 

 short, floral 1. broadly ovate, caudately acuminate, lower 

 i-i| in. broad, green, inner yellow, with green tips ; spadices 

 of both sexes 3-6, subumbellate, about § in. long, ~ in. diam., 

 cylindric, pedicels ^| in., stout; male spadix yellow, covered 

 with crowded stam. and minute pistillodes, fil. long, anth. 

 ovate, acute; fem. spadix covered with clavate, compressed, 

 obtuse carpels ; syncarp i by f in., scarlet, carpels crowned 

 with sessile disciform stigmas. 



Climbing on large trees, in moist low country ; very common. Fl. 

 Nov. -April ; male spadix pale yellow, ripe fem. scarlet. 

 Endemic. 



2. r. Walkerl, Solms in Linncea, xlii. 92 (1878). 



P. radicatis^ Thw. Enum. 327 (non Gaud.}. C. P. 2333. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 487. 



Stem as thick as the little finger or thicker; 1. 12-18 by 

 f in., linear, finely acuminate, margins spinulose, spinules 

 spreading, bright greeen, paler beneath, sheath 1-3 in., green 

 or brownish ; floral 1. 3-5 in., oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, scarlet with green tips ; spadices pedunclcd, ped. 

 1^-2 in.; male about i in. long by j^ in. diam., cylindric, pale 

 yellow, covered with crowded stam., fil. very short, anth. 

 oblong, pistillodes minute, sessile, 2-lobed ; fem. spadix 

 longer than the male, 3 in. long by i diam., cylindric-oblong; 

 ov. fusiform, stigma 2-lobed, ripe scarlet. 



Climbing over large trees, in moist region up to 4000 ft.; common. 

 Fl. March. 



Also in Andaman Is. (?). 



CXLI.— TYPHACE^. 



Tall, marsh, perennial herbs; rootstock stout; 1. linear, 

 erect; fl. minute, unisexual, crowded in cylindric, catkin-like, 

 unisexual spikes, mixed with capillary, straight, articulate 

 hairs of extreme tenuity, some of which (bracts ?) have 

 clavcllate tips; male fl.: — perianth o (or of hairs .'), stam. 

 solitary or clustered, fil. free or connate, anth. basifixed, 

 2-cellcd, dehiscence lateral ; fem. fl. consisting of a capillary 

 filament swollen into a narrow ov. above the middle, ter- 

 minated by a capillary style with a slightly swollen linear 



