31 8 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



cordate, petioles 3-sided, flowers above the water white, rather 

 large ; the swelling ovary covered by the spathe is as much as 

 2J inches long. 



Deocan and Konkan. Tanks and ditches throughout India and 

 Ceylon (ET.). Leaves extremely variable ; fruit 6-grooved, attaining 2 

 inches in diameter (If.). 



JBlyxa, stemless plants, bearing a spathe ; leaves linear, male 

 flowers several in a tubular 2-toothed spathe, sepals 3, petals 3, 

 longer stamens 3 to 9, pistillodes 3, female flowers solitary sessile in 

 the spathe, stigmas 3. * . Roxburghii, a grasslike plant, leaves 

 radical, sword-shaped, 8 to 24 inches long, flowers white, stamens 8, 

 seeds tubercled, sometimes with short tails. *B. echinosperma, leaves 

 6 inches to 4 feet long, like the last, stamens 3, capsule 2 or 3 inches 

 long, seeds spiny, with a long thread-like tail at each end. *B. Tal- 

 boti, leaves 4 to 6 inches long, linear lanceolate, serrulate, narrowed 

 from below the middle to the base, capsule an inch or two long, 

 seeds with strong protuberances. These three are not in D. The 

 first is attributed by G. ( J r allisneria octandra, K.) to the margins of 

 tanks throughout the Konkans ; the two last have been found in 

 Canara by Mr. Talbot. 



ORDER 111. BTIRMANNIACEJE. 



Herbs with regular flowers, bracted, sepals and petals 3 each, 

 or the latter wanting ; stamens 3 on the tube, ovary inferior, 

 capsule 3-valved, crowned by the perianth. 



A very small order. " Natives of moist grassy places in the 

 tropics. " Balfowr. 



BURMANNU. Leaves radical sword-shaped or reduced to 

 scales, calyx tube winged or angled, anthers sessile or nearly so, 

 with a crested connective, style 3-lobed. 



B. ccelestis (B. triflora, D.). About six inches high, scape 

 square, leafless except for a few lanceolate scales, flowers terminal 

 not more than 3, very pretty, the long 3-winged tube dark 

 blue, the 3 lobes very small tipped with white. 



Dapoli. Matheran and Mahableshwar (Birdwood). Mhar (D.). Widely 

 distributed, and very variable in size, leafiness, and form of flowers 

 (JET.). *B. pusilla, Konkan (Law), H. suspects to be a small state of 

 the last, radical leaves very few, canline none, or one or two. *B. 

 disticha, scape up to 20 inches, all the leaves radical, flowers 

 crowded on a double spike, blue, sepals keeled at the back, capsule 

 3-winged. Neither of these are in D., but the latter is in. (?., 

 S. Konkan. 



