Bo 
16 FLAGELLARIEX (Brown). [Flagellaria. 
. F. guineensis (Schumach, in Sehumach. and Thonn. Beskr. 
Gui Pl. 181); a tall climber, with a moderately stout herbaceous 
stem ; leaves sheathing ; ; the sheath open to the middle, with the thin 
membranous margins often closely overlapping but never connate to 
the top; the blade D hae in, long, 6- 18 lin. broad, Pons sisi sient 
with ascending or spreading branches, the lower ones subtended by 
leafy bracts, the upper bractless; braeteoles minute, hyaline, sai 
or suborbicular, lt or subacute; flowers subsessile along t 
rather slender, flexu or zigzag ultimate branchlets of the te 
usually with ere internodes between them, whitish or pale 
subpetaloid ; stamens ultimately much exserted, with Glaments 2-23 
in, long, and linear-oblong anthers, sagittate at the base, 11-14 lin. 
long ; ovary narrow, trigonou 8; stigmas 2-8 line long, ise rather 
stout, exserted and sere, over the tips of the perianth-segments ; 
berries globose, 2-3 lin. in diam., bright red. F. indica, of authors, 
ae not of Linneus. 
RN ReGion: Pondoland, nig | sine os Nata a pape Wood, 824! 
inetito ‘Waterfall, Rehmann, 8090 ! Um 0 iver, and Natal Bay, Drege, 
4484 without precise locality, Geemen 408! Ped 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
8 been confused with #’, indica, L., by almost all che but may be at 
once isting shed by the split leaf-sheaths, and the usually slen zigzag axes: 
along which the flowers are space ed out with distinct ae power en thes’: : 
ilst in F. ites the margins of the sheaths of the leaves are connate to the 
i an rowd 
into very short subglobose spikes or erules on a rather thick, 
aight axis, without internodes, or with sale scan ones between them. 
OrpeR CXLII. JUNCACEZ. 
(By J. G. Baxer.) 
Flowers Pig se: hermaphrodite in the Cape genera. Peri 
inferior, cut down to the base into 6 subequal, Wea a 
maceous segments. Stamens usually 6, hggneyions or attached 
to the base of segments ; tana nts filiform or flattened ; anthers 
dorsifixed or basifixed, dehintig nih. ayrcaneay Ovary superior, 
1-3-celled ; ovules anatropous, usuall any in a cell; style 
filiform, simple or trifurcate. Fruit peal splitting into 3 valves. 
Seeds ovoid, globose or angled by pressure, rarely tees peach testa 
thin 3 
mbr: 
sometimes produced beyond the nucleus ; albumen copious, fleshy or 
hard ; embryo small, placed near the hilum. 
Perennial or annual herbs, rarely shrubs, with a woody caudex; stem often 
