Flayellaria.'\ cxlv. flagellaiiie/E (brown) 91 



inner, all oblong, obtuse, subpetaloid. Stamens ultimately much 

 exserted ; filaments 2-2^ lin. long ; anthers linear-oblong, sagittate at 

 the base, IJ-IJ lin. long. Ovary narrow, trigonous ; stigmas -|-J Hn. 

 long, linear, rather sfcout, exserted and recurving over the tips of the 

 perianth-segments. Berries globose, 2-o lin. diam., bright red. — N. E. 

 Brown in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 10; Bendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 81. 

 F, indica, T. Thomson in Speke, Nile, Append. (>50 ; Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 640 ; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Hoc. xxix. 163 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 loo; Engl, & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. ii. 4, 3; Durand & Schinz, 

 Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 430; De Wild, ct Durand, Coutrib. Fl. Congo, i 

 fasc. 2, 04 ; and of other authors partly, not of Linnaeus. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Aquapim (Acropong) Mountains, Vo/jel ! Cape 

 Coast Castle, Vogel, 14 ! and without precise locality, Burton I Lagos, Barter, 20172 ! 

 Lagos Island, Barter, 2216 ! Cameroons : banks of the Cameroon River, Mann, J ! 

 425! 



IflTlle ]&and. British East Africa : Mombasa Island, Hildehrandl , ]047ii! 



Xiowrer Guinea. Congo, Smith! Angola: Anibriz; on damp wooded hills 

 near the town of Ambri/, Wekoitsch, 30O9 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Luvituku, Ltija. 



BSozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Usambara ; Doda, Hoist, 2945 I Khutu , 

 banks of the River Mgeta, Speke Sf Grant ! Zanguebar, KirJc .' Portuguese East 

 Africa: near the mouth of the River Shire; at Shamo, Kirk! MOrambala Hill, 

 Waller ! and at Shimwara Hills, Kirk ! Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk ! 



Also in South Africa. 



This has been confused with F. indica^ Linn., by almost all authors ; but, as was 

 pointed out by Schumacher, it may be at once distinguished by the leaf-sheaths being 

 open to about half-way down, although the margins often closely overlap, and also by 

 the slender zigzag axes, along which the Howers aie spaced out, with distinct inter- 

 nodes ; whilst in F. indica, the margins of the sheaths of the leaves are connate to the 

 top, forming a closed tubular she9.th, and the Howers are usually crowded together 

 into very short subglobose spikes or glomerules, on a rather thick straight axis,, 

 without internodes or with extremely short ones. 



Order CXLVI. JUNCACB^. (By J. G. Baker.) 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Perianth inferior, cut down to 

 the base into subequal biseriate glumaceous segments. Stamens 

 usually 0, hypogynous or attached to the base of the perianth-seg- 

 ments ; filaments filiform or flattened ; anthers dorsifixed or basifixed, 

 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, 1-3-celled ; ovules 

 anatropous, usually many in a cell ; style filiform, simple or trifurcate ; 

 stigmas filiform, papillovse all over. Fruit capsular, splitting into Ji 

 valves. Seeds ovoid, globose or angled by pressure, rarely compressed ; 

 testa thin or moderately thick, pale or black, the thin outer membrane 

 often produced into a tail ; albumen copious, firm ; embryo small, 

 placed near the hilum. — Perennial or annual herbs, rarely shrubs with 

 a woody caudex. Stem usually leafy only at the base. Leaves terete 

 or linear. Flowers small, usually clustered ; bracts minute scariose. 



