TyphaJ] CLXV. TYPHACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 489 



1. T. elephantina, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 566; stem 6-12 ft., leaves 

 1-1 f in. broad trigonous above the sheath, margins often undulate above 

 the middle, flowers bracteolate, pollen 4-globate, stigma lanceolate. Kunth 

 Enum. iii. 92 ; Schnizl. Typha, 26 ; Kcerner in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 

 xxxix. 165, t. 5, f. 10; Kurz in Journ. Sot. v. 95 ; in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xxxviii. i. 146. T. latifolia, Edgeiv. in Proc. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 194; 

 Kurz I. c. T. Maresii, Balland. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 1887, 389. 



Marshes from N.W. INDIA to ASSAM and southwards. DISTEIB. Algiers. 



Male spike 8-12 in., rachis clothed with short often forked hairs ; bracts 3 or 

 more ; anthers 1-5, ^ in. long. Fern, spike much stouter 6-10 by ^-1 in. diaui. ; 

 flowers mixed with clavate pistillodes ; bracteoles with fasciate tips much longer 

 than the hairs, which are shorter than the stigmas. 



2. T. javanica, Schnizl. in Zolling. Verz. Ind. Arch. Pfl. 77 ; stem 

 4-6 ft., leaves -|-f in. broad biconvex above the sheath, hairs of male fl. 

 simple forked or toothed, bracteoles with subspathulate tips and hairs 

 shorter than the linear stigmas, fern. fl. mixed with pistillodes, pollen 

 simple. Rohrb. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 1869, 98 ; Kcerner-in Verh. 

 Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien. xxxix. 157, t. v. f. 6. T. angustifolia, Thw. Enum. 

 331. T. latifolia, Moon Cat. Ceyl. PI. 81. 



CEYLON, Thwaites, &c. DISTRIB. Ms. Mascarene and Malay Islands. 



A smaller plant than T. elephantina, from which it differs in the form of the base 

 of the leaf, simple pollen and linear stigma. Fern, spike 5-6 by | f in. diam. 

 Anthers % in. 



3. T. angrustata, Ghaub. & Bory Exped. Scient. Moree Bot. 338 ; 

 stem 6-10 ft., leaves f-1 in. broad, semicylindric above the sheath, brac- 

 teoles of fern. fl. subspathulate equalling the linear stigmas, both longer 

 than the hairs, fern. fl. mixed with ciavate-tipped pistillodes, pollen simple. 

 Rohrb. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 1869, 81 ; Baiss. Fl. Orient, v. 50 ; 

 Aitchis. in Trans. Linn. Soc. N.S. iii. 120; Kcerner in Verh. Bot. Zool. 

 Ges. Wien. xxxix. 159, t. iv. f. 6, v. f. 1. T. angustifolia, Kurz in Journ.' 

 Bot. v. 95 (excl. syn.) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 567; Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xix. 188 ; Wall. Cat. 4989. 



NORTHEEN INDIA, from KASHMIR to MUNNIPORE and southwards to SCINDE 

 and COROMANDEL. DISTHIB. N. Asia and westward, N. Africa and S. Europe. 



Closely resembles the common European T. angustifolia, Linn., which is dis- 

 tinguished by the bracteoles shorter than the stigmas. 



4. T. Laxmanni, Lepech. in Nov. Act. Acad. Petersb. 84, 355 (excl. 



syn. DC.), t. 4.; dwarf, 2-3 ft. high, leaves slender semicylindric at 'the 

 sheath, male spikes 1-2 in., fern, f-1 in. by |- in. diam., fern. fl. ebracteolate 

 mixed with pistillodes, hajrs very short much shorter than the subobtuse 

 stigmas, pollen simple. Koerner in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 167, 

 t, iv. f. 3, v. f. 15. T. minima, Kurz in Journ. Bot. v. 96. T. Martini, 

 Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 188. T. stenophylla, Rohrb. in Verh. 

 Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 90 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 50. 



KASHMIR, alt. 9000 fb., Thomson, Giles. DISTRIB. N. Asia and westwards to 

 Russia. 



At once distinguished from all the previous species by its small size and slender 

 leaves, but very closely allied in the European and Oriental T. minima, which, 

 according to Kcerner, has bracteoles. 



2. SPARGANIUIM, Linn. 

 Flotvcrs in globose unisexual heads, subtended by leafy bracts. 



