Plants of the Punjab, 637 
a Ee D, 
WATER PLANTS, 
Hares with ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATH SIMPLE DHAVES, 
Typha Laxmannl, 
TYPHACES. 
F, B. I. vi. 489. 
Kashmir, 9,000 ft. 
Baluchistan. 
Sparganium 
ramosum, 
Burweed, 
TYPHACES. 
FB 1 vis. 490, 
The Plains to 
5 000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Pistia Stratiotes, 
Jalkhumbr. 
AROIDES OF 
ARACACEA. 
Ry. Bil. viv 497; 
The Plains. 
PETALS NOMB, ~ 
like the last species, but much smaller, stem 2-8 ft., 
leaves slender, half cylindric at the sheath, male spikes 
1-2 in., female g-1 by }-} in., hairs very short, shorter than 
the styles. 
rootstock oreeping, stem 1-4 ft., erect, leafy; leaves 
2-5 ft., 1 in. or less, broad, linear, margins concave, 8-edged 
at the base ; flowers in round heads with leafy bracts below, 
male and female in separate heads, heads sessile on the 
branches of a panicle, male heads olive brown, $-3 in, 
diam., soon falling off, male flowers of 2-3 stamens sur- 
rounded by 8-6 membranous linear scales, female heads 
1 in. diam., in fruit, female flowers of one persistent style 
with a unilateral stigma surrounded by 8-6 thin lnear 
soales ; drupe } in. long, angled, sessile, shortly beaked. 
perennial, stemless, floating in the still fresh water, 
bearing runners, tuft of simple white rootlets and leaves; 
leaves 1}-4 in. long, apex rounded or broadly notched, wavy, 
velvety above and below, fogether forming an erect cup ; 
flowers minute, sessile on a stalk (spadix) within a white 
sheath (spathe) 4 im. long, spathe obliquely bell-shaped, 
woolly without, pouched, closed below, contracted about 
the middle, the spadix jo ned to the back of the tube of the 
spathe below, male and female flowers on one spadix, male 
above, female below, neuter between, male flowers ccnsist 
of a few sess le united stamens or rather anthers beneath 
the top of the spadix, anthers with vertical slits, a ring of 
minute neuters below them, female flowers consist of a 
solitary conical ovoid, one-celled ovary, a conical style 
with a discoid stigma; fruit membranous, few seeded, 
seeds oblong or ovoid with a broad top. ‘The plant is sup- 
posed to purify water, the leaves are demulcent, and the 
‘oot laxative, 
