MonocJioria.'] CLVII. PONTEDERIACE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) 363 



P. saggitata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 124 ; Wall. Cat. 5093. P. dilatata, Andrews 

 Sot. Rep. vii. t. 490 ; Buck. Ham. in Syme's Embass. 475 with plate ; Roxb. 

 I. c. 123 ; Wall. Cat. 4094. P. sagittifolia, Herb. Heyne. 



Common throughout INDIA and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, China. 



Rootstock spongy ; flowering steins short. Leaves 6-7 by 5-6 in., obtuse or 

 acute, many-nerved ; petiole of the floral leaf tumid above and embracing the 

 short scape, of the radical 18-24 in., broad and sheathing at the base. Inflorescence 

 centrifugal; flowers long-pedicelled, -|-1 in. diam., violet-blue dotted with red; 

 pedicels 1 in. or less ; larger sepal obovate, smaller oblong. Filament spurred. 

 Large anther blue, the others yellow. Capsule in. diam., subglobose or oblong. 



(2) M. vaginalis, Presl Reliq. Hank. ii. 128 ; rootstock short, leaves 

 long-petioled, from linear to ovate and ovate-cordate, flowers short- 

 pedicelled subspicate. Kunth Enum. iv. 134 ; Solms Laub. in A.DG. Monogr. 

 Phanerog. iv. 1524; Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 548. Pontederia vaginalis, 

 Linn. Mant. 2^8; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 121; Cor. PI. ii. t. 110; Wall. Cat. 

 5095 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 23.Rheede Hort. Hal. ii. t. 44. 



Throughout INDIA; from Kashmir eastwards to Assam and southwards to 

 Travancore and Singapore. CEYLON common. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, China, 

 Japan, Trop. Africa. 



Rootstock suberect (creeping, Roxburgh). Leaves much as in M. hastcefolia, 

 but few-nerved. Inflorescence centripetal, few- or many-fid. ; flowers blue, sprinkled 

 with red, very variable in size, pedicels shorter than the perianth. Filaments and 

 anthers as in M. hastcefolia. A most variable plant. 



Var. plantaginea, Solms Laub. 1. c. ; smaller, leaves often narrow, raceme 

 few-fld. M. pauciflora, Kunth ty Miquel II. cc. M. linearis, Miq. I. c. Pontederia 

 plantaginea, Roxb. I. c. 123; Vail. Cat. 5096. P. pauciflora, Blume Enum. M. 

 Jav. i. 32. P. racemosa, Herb. Ham. India, Java. 



OKDER CLY11I. PHILYDRACEJE. 



Erect herbs. Leaves narrowly linear. Flowers small, in bracteate 

 spikes or panicles, bisexual, irregular. Perianth inferior, 2-partite ; seg- 

 ments antero-posterior, petaloid, persistent. Stamen 1, inserted on the 

 base of the anterior segment, filament flattened ; anther straight or 

 twisted ; staminodes 2, alternate with the sepals, small, petaloid. Ovary 

 free, 3-celled, or 1-celled with 3 projecting parietal many-ovuled placentas ; 

 style terminal, stigma entire ; ovules anatropous. Capsule loculicidal, 3- 

 valved. Seeds many, small, albumen fleshy, embryo minute. Genera 3, 

 species 4, Asiatic, Australian and Pacific. 



PHIIiYDRUBX, Banks., 

 Spike simple. Anthers at length twisted. Ovary 1-celled. 



P. lanug-inosum, Banks in Gsertn. Fruct. i. 62, t. 16, f. 10; Kunth 

 Enum. iii. 380; Bot. Mag. t. 783; Roscoe in Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 342, 

 t. 20 ;' Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 250; Guillem. Ic. PL Austral, t. 5; Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, vii. 74; Garuel in A.DG. Monogr. Phanerog. iii. 2 ; Schleid. fy 

 Vog. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. 40, f. 1 ; Griff. Notul. iii. 231 ; Ic. 

 PL AsiaL t. 269, 270. Garciana cochinchinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochin, i. 15. 



BURMA, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS aud the MALAY PENINSULA. - DISTEIB. Chiua, 

 Malay Islands, Australia. 



