Flagellaria ] CLXI. FLAGELLARIE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 391 



P. indica, Linn. Sp. PL 333; leaves sessile lanceolate with sheathing 

 bases. Xunth Enum. iii. 370 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 154 ; Dalz. <Sf Gibs. Bomb. 

 JF7. 256; Wall. Cat. 5198; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 10; Miquel Fl. Ind. 

 Sat. iii. 249; Redoute Lil. v. t. 257; Gaertn. Fruct. i. 16, t. IQ.Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. vii. t. 53. 



Throughout INDIA, chiefly near the coast, from the SUNDERBUNDS and CHITTA- 

 GONG, to CEYLON and SINGAPORE. DISTKIB. Trop. Asia and Africa. 



Glabrous, climbing lofty trees ; stem thick as the thumb below ; branches 

 clothed with the closed leaf-sheaths. Leaves 6-10 in., variable in breadth, lanceo- 

 late, tip a slender spiral tendril, many-nerved, not plaited ; sheath 2-auricled. 

 Panicle 6-18 in. broad and irregularly branched j flowers clustered, sessile ; bracts 

 scale-like. Sepals about -jL in. long, white, subscarious. Stamens exserted ; anthers 

 as long as the filaments, deeply 2-fid at the base ; ovary narrow, trigonous. Fruit 

 pisiform, red. 



Var. minor ; stem very slender, leaves 3-5 by - in., panicle 1-3 in. broad. F. 

 minor, Blume in Eoem. ft Suh. Syst. vi. 1493 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 249, 8f 

 Suppl. 598. F. angustifolia, Wall. Cat. 5199. Malay Peninsula. 



2. SUSU1K; Blume. 



Stem stout, erect, simple or branched above. Leaves very long, sessile 

 or petioled, many-nerved. Flow&rs dioecious, in broad panicles, sessile; 

 bracts minute or 0. Sepals unequal, orbicular, concave, inner petaloid. 

 MALE FL. Stamens 6, adnate to the base of the sepals. Pistillode 3-6- 

 angled or 3-lobed. FL. FEM. Staminodes small or 0, stigmas 3, connate in 

 a 3-lobed disk. Berry pisiform, succulent, 1-3-seeded ; stigmas persistent, 

 lateral or excentric. Species 2, Indian and Malayan. 



1. S- anthelminticum, Blume in Schultes. f. Syst. vii. 1493 ; 

 panicle broad spreading irregularly branched. Kunth Enum. iii. 371 ; 

 Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 247 ; Thwaites Enum. 340. Hanguana, Blume 

 Enum. PI. Jav. 15. 



MALAY PENINSULA and PENANG, common. CEYLON, in marshes. DISTEIB. 

 Malay Islands. 



Glabrous, or young leaves and panicle sparsely clothed with short cottony 

 pubescence. Stem 3-5 ft. high, stout, leafy at the tip, or throughout. Leaves 

 3-8 ft. long, long petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, many- and closely 

 nerved, with conspicuous (when dry) cross nervules ; petiole 1-3 ft., base sheathing. 

 Panicle erect, shdrtly stoutly peduncled, decompound, rachis and branches stout. 

 Flowers about f in. broad, rather remotely sessile on the branches of the panicle, 

 yellowish ; perianth segments orbicular, concave ; filaments short, dilated below, 

 anthers oblong. Berry usually 1 -seeded. 



2. S. malayanum, Planch, mss. ; more or less pubescent with scat- 

 tered white hairs, panicle narrow, branches whorled. Yeratronia mala- 

 yana, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 553. Veratrum P malayanum, Jack in Mai. 

 'Misc. i. v. 25 (Hook. Bot. Misc. ii. 74) ; Wall. Cat. 3717. T. anthelmin- 

 ticum, Maury in Rev. Hort. 1889, 77, f. 23. 



PENANG, PEBAK, SINGAPORE and MALACCA. DISTEIB. Malaya. 



Described by Jack as with the leaves all radical and 3-4 ft. long; but I suspect 

 his description is taken from a young plant. It may be doubted from Blume's 

 description (in Willdenow) whether this or S. anthelminticum is the plant intended, 

 but 1 assume that Miquel must have had access to the specimens of that author, 

 or he would not have described S. malayanum as a different genus. If really different 

 the two species are very closely allied. 



