M apama.l Cyperacece. 91 



narrow, sheaths subequitant; scapes axillary, much shorter 

 than the 1., bearing a single large bracteate capitate spikelet ; 

 glumes large, persistent, coriaceous, spirally imbricating, all 

 but the lower fig. ; scales 8 or 10, all of about the same length, 

 two outer placed right and left, concave, acute, keeled, keel 

 ciliate, with sometimes a third dorsal, narrow, flat, inner flat 

 or slightly concave ; stam. 1 in the axil of each keeled scale, 

 with sometimes a third in the axil of the third scale, fil. 

 slender, anth. linear-oblong; ov. solitary, central amongst the 

 scales, compressed, gradually narrowed into the long persistent 

 slender style, stigmas 3, not long; nut obovoid, pyriform, or 

 globose, beaked by the style. — Sp. 33 ; 11 in Fl. B. Ind. 



HI. zeylanica, Benth. ex Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 682 (1894). 



Pandanophyllmn zeylanictim, Thw. Enum. 345, 433. C. P. 3029. 

 Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. Miq. Fl. Ind. Arch. 111. t. 22 {Lepironia). 



Rootstock as thick as the little finger, erect or creeping, 

 root-fibres long, thicker than a crow-quill; 1. 2-3 ft. by §-2 in. 

 broad, subdistichous, narrowed to the base and at the apex 

 into a long filiform point, 3-veined, margins and keel beneath 

 scaberulous or aculeolate, sheaths short, open, very coriaceous; 

 scapes 1- 10 in., as thick as a crow-quill, obtusely trigonous, 

 smooth, naked; spikelets fin. diam. ; bracts oblong, obtuse, 

 shorter than the spikelet; glumes f in. long, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, coriaceous, many- veined, without midrib or keel; 

 scales 5, very narrow, 2 acute, concave, keeled, monandrous, 

 3 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, flat; anth. i in., very slender, 

 obtuse; nut \-\ in., ovoid or obovoid, obscurely trigonous, 

 beaked, epicarp thin, olive-green, endocarp bony ; seed 

 ovoidly pyriform, testa very hard, thick, black. 



By or in water, moist low country below 1000 ft.; rather rare. Kukul 

 Korale ; Singhe Raja Forest ; Hiniduma Kande ; between Kurunegala 

 ,and Matale. Fl. Sept.-Dec. 

 Also in Borneo. 



2. AX. immersa, Benth. ex Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. vi. 682 (1894). 

 Pandanofihyllum immersum, Thw. Enum. 433. C. P. 3819. 

 Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. 



Rootstock short, creeping, root-fibres very stout; 1. dis- 

 tichous, 2-3 ft. by J— I in., linear, narrowed to the base and at 

 the apex into a long filiform point, 3-veined, margins and 

 keel smooth or nearly so, sheaths short, coriaceous; scapes 

 l-i"! in., clothed with imbricating coriaceous sheaths, of which 

 the upper pass into lanceolate, acuminate, or caudate bracts 

 longer than the spikelets, sometimes 2 in. long; spikelets 



