142. FLAGELLARIACE^. [1. Flagellaria. 



distance each side of mid-rib. Median sepal very caducous (0, ?), 

 lateral cymbiform, keeled, -25" long, nerveless, persistent. Corolla 



• 45" long including the • 25" long tube, petals yellow, obovate, • 2" diam. 

 nerved, shallowly irregularly toothed. Stamens half as long as 

 petals, stout, throat of corolla between the stamens and in adclition 

 to the feathery staminodes densely bearded with closel}^ septate hairs 

 as long as the stamens, some of them slightly clavate. Style and its 

 branches stout, stigmas lobed. Capsule broadly elliptic, • 2" by • 15". 

 Seeds ellipsoid or oblong, longitudinally ridged, -02" long. 



Eanclu pats, amongst grass, 3000 ft. elev. ! Fl., Fr. Oct. 



3. X. pauclflora, Willd. 



A small marsh plant 8-12" high with erect rigid grass-like leaves 

 3-8" by -Oe-'OS" and slender striate subterete or compressed and 2- 

 edged smooth or scaberulous scapes with a globose or ovoid head 

 •25- -3" long. Bracts orbicular or obovate, rounded and emarginate, 

 very concave, uppermost sometimes cuspidate, with central lanceo- 

 late brown centre and lighter coloured thinner wings or margins, all 

 scarious, brown, shining. Flowers about 6 altogether, median sepal 

 very caducous, lateral persistent scarious conduplicate or cymbiform, 



• 18" long oblanceolate. Corolla about -3" diam. 



Frequent in marshes. Plateaux of Chota Xagpur ! Gya, T. Thomson ! Puri, 

 Clarke ! l^o doubt also in the northern districts, as though no specimens have 

 been collected it has been collected each side. Fl., Fr. c.s. 



Root a small fibrous tuft. L. usually 3—1 shorter than the scapes, smooth or 

 scabenilous, very rarely -1" broad. Scapes 1 or more, sheathed at the base by 

 a leaf. 



I have not dissected the fresh fls., and from herbarium specimens find it impos- 

 sible to describe either corolla or staminodes, but they appear to be quite different 

 from those in the last described specimens, which are doubtfully a variety or a 

 separate species. 



FAM. 152. FLAGELLARIACE^. 



Stems leafy, erect or scandent by the cirrhose leaf-tips. Leaves 

 many-nerved or plaited, with petiole or sheathing. Flowers small 

 in terminal panicles, homoichlamydeous, 1-2-sexual, regular, except 

 for the somewhat unequal tepals. Tepals 6, 2-seriate, persistent, 

 imbricate, free, inferior, dry or sub-petioled. Stamens 6, hypogynous 

 with erect basifixed anthers. Ovary 3-celled with styles 3 or one 

 3-cleft. Ovules 1 in each cell, anatropous. Fruit fleshy or drupaceous 

 or with 1-3 pyrenes. Seeds laterally attached with copious floury 

 albumen. Embryo lenticular, with the radicle lying on the outside 

 close to the hilum. 



1. FLAGELLARIA, L. 



Stem climbing by the cirrhose leaf -tips. Flowers 2-sexual. Perianth 

 subpetaloid. Style arms 3, entire or 2-partite. Fruit drupaceous 

 with a thin succulent exocarp and bony 1-2 -seeded endocarp. 



1. F. indica, L. Ban-chanda, Beng. ; Harcharal, H. ; Bomugra, Or. 



A tall plant with reed-like stems, sometimes climbing. Leaves 



sessile on their truncate -T-r'-long tubular sheaths, lanceolate, 3-9" 



long with finely acuminate cirrhose tips, many-nerved. Flowers 



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