390 CLX. COMMELINACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Floscopa. 



7. FI.OSCOPA, Lour. 



Erect or subscandent herbs. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers in terminal or 

 axillary thyrsoid panicles, bracteate ; cymes secund-flowered (not scorpioid). 

 Sepals 3, oblong, free. Petals free, obovate. Stamens 6, perfect (or one 

 imperfect); filaments glabrous. Ovary 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled ; style 

 simple. Capsule 2-celled, crustaceous, loculicidal. Seeds hemispheric. 

 Species about 11, tropical. 



1. F. scandenSj Lour. FL Coch. 193; glabrous or pubescent, stems 

 prostrate, branches suberect, leaves subpetioled acuminate, cymes panicled 

 villous or hirsute. Clarke Monogr. 265. F. paniculata, Hassk. PL Jungh. 

 157 ; Commel. Ind. 167. F. Hamiltonii, undulata petiolata and Meyeni- 

 anaij, SassJc. Commel. Ind. 166, 167. Dithyrocarpus paniculatus, jLuntli 

 Enum. iv. 70 ; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Seng. 34 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Boml. Fl. 

 256. D. Meyenianus and rufus, Xunth 1. c. 78, 79. D. petiolatus, Eothii, 

 and undulatus, Wight Ic. t. 2079, 2080. Tradescantia paniculata, UoxK 

 Cor. PL ii. t. 109 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 119 ; Roth Nov. Sp. 188. T. rufa, Presl 

 Bel. Haenk. i. 138. Commelina cymosa and densiflora, Blume Enum. i. 

 4. C. hispida, Ham. mss., and C. Hamiltonii, Spreng. Sy*t. iv., and Cur. 

 post. 25 and v. 186. Aneilema hispidum, Don Prodr 45 ; Wall. Cat. 5204. 

 A cymosum and densiflorum, Kuntli Enum. iv. 69. Lamprodithyros 

 paniculatus, ffas.sk. in Flora, 1863, 389. 



Throughout tropical INDIA, in swamps from E. Nepal, Sikkim and the KHASIA 

 HILLS to TRAVANCORE, MALACCA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Eastern Asia aud 

 tropical Australia. 



Stem stout, erect, creeping below. Leaves 2-6 by -! in., sessile or petioled ; 

 sheaths lax, short, glabrous or hirsute; mouth ciliate. Panicles shortly peduncled, 

 pyramidal, with long erect or ascending many-fld. branches. Flowers small, sub- 

 globose, racemose, lower bracteate upper ebracteate ; sepals villous ; petals white, 

 lilac or ro:jy. Capsule ^ in. long, orbicular, or ellipsoid, acute, compressed, shiniug. 

 Seeds glaucous. 



ORDER CLXI. FLAGELLARIE2E. 



Stem tall, leafy, erect or scandent. Leaves many-nerved or plaited, 

 petiole sheathing. Flowers small, in terminal panicles, uni- or bi-sexual. 

 Sepals 6, persistent, imbricate. Stamens 6, hypogynous, filaments free ; 

 anthers basifixed, erect. Ovary superior, 3-celled ; style short, 3-cleft, or 

 styles 3 ; ovules solitary in the cells, anatropous. Fruit a small berry, or 

 a drupe with 1-3 pyrenes. Seeds laterally attached, testa membranous or 

 thick, albumen flowery ; embryo lenticular. Genera 3, species 7-8, of the 

 Old World and Pacific. 



Stem scandent. Flowers 2-sexual. Drupe 1-2-seeded .... 1. FLAGELLARIA. 



Stem erect. Flowers dioecious. Berry 1-3-seeded 2. SUSUM. 



1 



1. FLAGELLARIA, Linn. 



Stem climbing by the cirrhose leaf-tips. 'Flowers bisexual. Sepals 

 subpetaloid. Style arms 3, entire or 2-partite. Drupe with a thin succu- 

 lent exocarp and bony 1-2-seeded endocarD- Species 2, a Fijian and the 

 following : 



