Floscopa. } - COMMELINACE (Clarke). 15 
1. F. glomerata (Hassk. Commel. Ind. 166); stems 1-3 ft. long, 
stout but weak, leafy ; leaves 3 by 1 in., sessile, ts narrowed (often 
eared) at base, nearly glabrous; inflorescence 1-21 in. in diam., dense 
with flowers, very rufous-hairy; capsule 1 line in re fig ; seeds ellipsoid 
glaucous, smooth ; embryostega central nearly opposite the hilum 
Roem. et Schult. Syst. vii. 1175. Dithyrocarpus glomeratus and 
D. capensis, Kunth, joni: iv. 78. 
EASTERN REGION 3; between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, 
Drége, 4472! Fnatidis: “Woo ni 967! and without precise locality, Sutherland, 
Gerrard, 359! Cooper, 3325! 
Also in South Trop. Africa and Madagascar. 
Orper CXLI. FLAGELLARIEZ. 
(By N. E. Brown.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or dicecious, regular. Perianth 6- partite, 
persistent, the segments biseriate, small, subpetaloid or scarious, 
slightly unequal. Stamens 6, hypogynous, or shortly sng to the 
base of the perianth- -segments ; ; filaments free; anthe ifixed, 
introrse, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary depeeion 3-celled, 
with a solitary anatropous S ovulé in each cell ; style short, or none ; 
stigma 3-lobed and sessile, or of three linear, spreading ‘pranches. 
ruit a 1-3-seeded wen Seeds with a crustaceous testa, and a 
copious farinaceous albumen; embryo minute, lenticular, placed on 
the outside of the atiigeat” near the hilum 
Herbs of robust habit, with stout oe Sbniags eaves up to the base of the 
inflorescence, sometimes climbing by means of wn Sn oe a pote ik the en ~ 
leaves alternate, elongate, sheathing at t the base toa 
tendril at the rhe 8 , veins numerous, parallel ; my ea oA ren sane; 
sessile or freee 
ISTR A small Order of three genera, and about 8 = confined to 
warm fonriene of. the ‘Old World. Only one species in South Afr 
I, FLAGELLARIA, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth subpetaloid, the segments 
oblong, obtuse, the three outer slightly shorter than the three inner. 
Stamens 6, hypogynous, the filaments ultimately long much 
exserted. ‘Ovary w ith a short style and 3 linear stigmas. erry 
one-seeded, rarely 2-seeded. Seed globose or ovoid with a crustaceous 
testa, 
Stem sarmentose, climbing by means of the tendril-tipped leaves; panicle 
_ terminal; flowers small, spicate at the ends of the ultimate branchlets of the 
nicle, 
Ist ee species, one African, one in Fiji, and the third widely dispersed 
_ the pa Al of the Old World, but apparently.not occurring on the continent 
_ of Africa, 
