Joinvillea.] FLAGELLARIACEAE. 447 
or repeatedly forking, the flowers 6—9 in an umbel on filiform pedicels 
of about 6‘, the whole forming a thyrsus with short linear-lanceolate 
bractlets. Sepals greenish, ovate-acute, glabrous, 1—1'/2‘’, Petals hyaline, 
white, about the same length. Stamens shorter, the filaments cae d, 
the anther-cells subglobose, — occupying the margins of a broad 
transverse connective. Stigma obtuse. Capsule 1'/2‘’.. Seeds 1 or 2 in each 
cell, peltate. — Griseb. Fl. W. . p. 523. — T. floribunda, Kth. — T. effusa, 
Mart. Fl. Bras. p. 15, tab. 34. 
On ly, found in the small ravine at the head of Pauoa, Oahu! where “ Marin or 
«Manini», an early settler from Mexico, used to raise trees and } received 
from his native country. The species ranges in America from Mexico and the W. Indies 
Brazil. 
to 
Orper LXXXVII. FLAGELLARIACEAE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or dioecious. Perianth scarious, persistent, 
of 6 nearly free imbricate segments in two series, the inner ones of the 
same length as the outer or shorter. Stamens 6, opposite the segments, 
an 
cell with a — ovule which is serait from near the apex oe a 
sometimes woody plants with long-sheathing parallel-nerved leaves. 
owers numerous in a terminal panicle, the bracteoles minute or 
wanting. — See Brongniart & Gris, Fragm. Fl. N. Cal. p. 7. 
An Order of only 3 genera, confined to Malaysia and Polynesia. 
1. JOINVILLEA, Gaud. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Segments of perianth stiff, acute. Stigmas 
discreet, very short. Drupe globose, scarcely fleshy, with bony pyrenae, 
1—3-seeded. Seeds ovoid, with appressed testa. Embryo subdiscoid, 
with a nipple-like projection toward the micropyle. — Bamboo-like plants 
with fistulous nodose stems, leafy in their whole length. Leaf-s 
convolute, with a projecting 2-eared ligule; the blade plicate along 
the nerves, acute, without cirrhi. Flowers small, sessile along the branches 
of a large panicle, ace or clustered. 
A genus of 1 or perha ps 2 species in New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and Viti 
Islds., besides the following. 
1. J. adscendens, Gaud. Bot.Voy. Bon. tab. 39 and 40. — Stems 15—20 ft. 
high (15—40, Wawra), over one inch thick at the base, undivided, the 
internodes 6 —12‘. Leaves alternate, with a smooth sheath of 6— 8‘ in 
length, the blade lanceolate, 2—3 ft. long, 3—5‘ broad about the middle, 
