32 TYPHACE® (Brown). [ Typha. 
long as the stigma, brownish ; stigma linear, a than the hairs, 
mottled with brown ;_ hairs filiform. Sehwm. and Thonn. in Danske 
Vidensk. Selsh. Afhan: di. 1829, 175 ; Krol 4 Verhandl. Zool.- 
Bot. Gesselsch. Wien, 1889, 156, ¢. 5, f' 4. T. angustifolia, var. 
australis, Rohrbach in Verhandl, Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb, xi. 83. 
SouTH AFRICA: without pai af Krebs, Masson, Bergius. 
Coast Recion : Uitenhage Div.; between Van Stadens Berg and Bethelsdorp, 
under 1000 ft., Drége. 8811! 1 
ENTRAL REGION : Prince Albert Div. ; between Drie Koppen and Blood River, 
Drége, 8810 
Also in Tropical and North Africa. 
This differs fi T. angustifolia in the form of the bracteoles, and the finer 
hairs of a Sumale perianth. 
2. T. capensis (Rohrb. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 
xi. 96); plant attaining 6 ft. in height, glabrous; blade of leaf 
11-4 ft. long, 2—7 lin. broad, linear or strap shaped, obtusely pointed, 
j al 
and female spikes subequal, or the female a little the longer, 
33—7 in. long, an or separated by a short interval; stamens 
mixed with brownish bracts or scales, that are linear-spathulate 
or cuneate-spathulate entire and acute, or variously toothed; pollen 
i e flowers usually tN 8 or with a few narrow 
spathulate- t pesolate. colourless bracteo mingled with them; 
stigmas spathulate- lanceolate, longer than the filiform hairs. Kron- 
feld in Verhandl. Zoolog.- Bot. Gesselsch, ‘Ati, 1889, 180. fF. 
latifolia, Krauss in Flora, 1845, 343, not of Lin 
ie Arrica: without locality, Harvey, 558! pe and Zeyher, 913, 
Coast Rra@ion: Queenstown Div. ; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 893 
EASTERN REGION: Natal; banks of rivers, Krauss. Toanda, Wika: 1378! 
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar. 
Orver CXLV. AROIDEZ. 
(By N. E. Brown.) 
Flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, with or without a perianth, 
hermaphrodite flowers. Perianth, when present, of free oF 
connate segments. Stamens 6, rarely more or fewer vate the 
free or connate ; filame nts : none, or broad and flat, or ade filiform ; i 
anthers opening ‘by terminal pores, or by short or long longitudinal’ : 
slits; pollen often emitted in enmeage-like & trings. Ovary sometim 
surrounded by staminodia, superior, or rarely inferior, with or withe 
