Order 120. Commelinacea. 355 



This is a larger and less hairy species than the last. S. Konkan. 

 The commonest species in the rains (D.). Throughout tropical 

 India in hilly districts (-ET). 



3. 0. fasciculata. Three to six inches high, all reddish and 

 woolly, leaves fleshy, lanceolate, stem-clasping ; flowers from the 

 boat-shaped sheaths rose-coloured, filaments bearded with white 

 and rose-coloured hairs. 



Poona and Nasik. Common in rocky places in the Deccan (D.)' 

 It is a very pretty species, and D. says the only woolly one. H. has 

 the flowers issuing from bracts, but D. has them, as I have found 

 them, from sheaths. 



* 0. tuberosa, stems several creeping, radical leaves sword-shaped, 

 large, stem leaves linear lanceolate, often purple beneath j flowers 

 bluish-purple in peduncled heads, bracts falcate, ciliated. A large 

 and coarse species compared with the others : W. Deccan, never 

 seen in the Konkan (D.). H. includes in this as a var. D.'s C. 

 adscendens, which is smaller and smoother. 



* C. vivipara, a stemless epiphyte, radical leaves sword-shaped, 

 fleshy, in a tuft, scapes numerous, very slender, with 2 or 3 white 

 flowers, and small leaves and bracts. On trees at Parwar Ghaut (D.) : 

 not much known otherwise. C. axillaris, stem 6 to 18 inches, red, 

 branched ; leaves long linear, smooth, flowers blue, 2 or 3 together 

 from the sheaths of the leaves, bracts small and hidden. Poona. 

 W. Deccan (D.). Throughout India (H.}. This H. makes the only 

 species with flowers coming from the leaf-sheaths, but see No. 3. 



Floscopa. Flowers in panicles with bracts, stamens 6 perfect, or 

 one sometimes imperfect, filaments smooth, capsule 2-celled. * F. 

 scandens (Dithyrocarpus paniculatus, D.). Stem creeping with erect 

 branches, sheaths of the lanceolate leaves with woolly mouth, panicle 

 roundish or pyramidal ; flowers small, white lilac or rosy. On the 

 Ghauts; might be easily mistaken for a grass at first sight (D.). 

 Throughout tropical India in swamps (T.). 



ORDER 121. FLAGELLARIE^l. 



Herbs, leaves with sheathing petioles, flowers small in ter- 

 minal panicles, perianth segments 6 imbricated, stamens 6, 

 ovary superior, styles 3, short, or one 3-cleft. 



FLAGELLARIA. Stem climbing by the tendril-like tips of the 

 leaves, flowers bisexual, sepals sub-petaloid, fruit a drupe. 



F. Indica. A Jarge climber with smooth jointed hollow 

 stems ; leaves alternate lanceolate, sub-cordate, flowers very 

 fragrant, whitish, anthers and stigmas more conspicuous than 

 the perianth, fruit roundish. 



The stems are as thick as a walking cane, but quite green ; the 



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