TAB. XLII. 
FORRESTIA GLABRATA. 
2. Forrestia glabrata Hassk. Commelynace, p. 92. Campelia glabrata Miquel Flor. Ind. III. p.546. Kunth 
Enum. IV. p. 109. 
Folia marginoe villoso-ciliata, subtus glabrata. Capsula ovoidea, apice pilosa, quam sepala, ad apices hirta, deémum 
multo brevior. 
Hab. Tn conyallibus montium frequens ad 500-3000 ped. alt. ; Sikkim, Assam, Khasia, Chittagong. 
Distributio Indica. In Tenasserim et Malaya. 
Vagina foliorum aliquando lincis dense hirsutis ornate. Sepala juniora elliptica naviculata ; in fructu apicibus clongatis 
spathulata evadunt. 
Vidi specimina viva spontanea. 
The hairs at the tips of the sepals elongated in fruit are a good character : and are very long and tawny in some of the 
Assam specimens. 
Forrestia glabrata lke the other species varies in size and is sometimes very large, say ten feet high. The stems are gene- 
rally suberect and undivided. 
[Flagellaria is not uncommon in Eastern aud Southern Bengal, andis a widely distributed plant extending to Malaya, 
Flagellaria angustata Wallich which is Flagellaria minor Blume is a smaller plant with smaller leayes found in Penang, Singapore, &e. :* 
but appears to me only a variety of the common species Flagellaria indica. | 
EXPLICATIO TABULA= XLII. 
Planta ex specimine exsiccato Sikkimensi depicta, 
1. Capsula matura intra sepala a latere visa. 
zo 
Capsula eadem sepalis amotis. 
2 
Capsule dehiscentis horizontalis sectio, 
4. Semina ex unico loculo in situ ab externa facie visa. 
Semina cadem ab interna facie visa, 
a 
6. Stamen, 
2 
Filamenti monoliforme pilum, 
e 
Pistillum junins cum stylo, 
