299 TY PHACES. [ TyPHa. 
temples. The very fragrant flowers are much appreciated by the 
natives. The soit floral leaves are eaten as a vegetable, and the 
pulp of the fruit is often eaten. 
CXVI._TYPHACEZ. 
Aquatic or palustrine perennial herbs. Leaves linear, erect or 
floating, sheathing below, nerves parallel. Flowers moncecious or 
dicecious, small, crowded in globose or cylindric bracteate spikes 
of which the upper are males; bracteoles none. Perianth of 
membranous green scales or fine hairs. Mate flowers: Stamens 
1-7; filaments free or connate; anthers basi-fixed, erect, cuneate 
or linear-oblong, dehiscing longitudinally ; connective sometimes 
produced. Pistillode none. Frm. flowers: Ovary superior, 1- or 
2-celled; styles free, persistent; stigmas laterally papillose ; 
ovules 1 in each cell, penduious from apex of cell. Fruit mem- 
branous or drupaceous. Seeds pendulous; albumen fleshy or 
floury ; embryo axile, cylindric, the radical end thickened, plumule 
in a lateral slit.—Species about 15, cosmopolitan. 
Perianth of slender hairs. . : WEB: Md v9 127 
Perianth of green scales . ; , . 2. SPARGANIUM. 
1. TYPHA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 488. 
Marsh herbs. Leaves erect spongy. Flowers small, in very 
dense superposed cylindric spikes, often intermixed with hairs 
dilated at tip. Perianth of capillary hairs, or obsolete in the male. 
Stamens 1 or more, connective thickened at the tip. Ovary often 
reduced toa clavate-tipped hair, long-stalked, narrowed into a 
capillary style with a clavate or filiform stigma. /rwit very 
minute; pericarp membranous, indehiscent or follicular. Seed 
with striate testa, albumen floury.—Species about 10, in temp. 
and tropical regions. 
Leaves 3-gonous above the sheath ; eg 
4-slobate : . 1. T. elephantina. 
Leaves semi- Ne ea wpais the cit bne pollen 
simple. 4 . 2. T. angustata. 
