1036 BENGAL PLANTS. [Mantisia. 
Ovary apparently 1-celled and 1-ovuled, with 2 small, rudimentary 
Ack pe 7 os — eR a terminal, few-flowered inflorescence 
ets Mar 
Svar 3-celled, 3- nn 
Stems wc with terminal, panicled, scattered flowers ; panicle 
with convolute, deciduous sheathing bracts at the forks and 
partons bracteoles . Clin 
with 
Stems broad, solitary leaves, and lateral, clustered heads 
of flowers ; bracts and bracteoles persistent ..........+. Phrynium. 
*Stamens 5 perfect, free, the sixth imperfect or absent ; stigma more oF 
less eae 8 6-lobed : —[p. 1034] 
—— es ee long, narrow, free; capsule loculicidally 3-valved ; 
-Ravenala. 
Sepals united in a split, spathaceous tube; corolla short, in neluded, 
enveloping the stamens and style; fruit fleshy, indehiscent; leaves 
Musa. 
seeeere 
929, Mantisia Sims. 
eafy herbs; rootstock creeping; stem short; leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, caudate. pape eons becranl on a short scape, 
eG SS ace broadly winged ; lateral staminodes at or below 
the middle of the exserted filament, slender, spathulate or sub- 
ulate; lip deflexed, 2-fid. Carpels 8, connate in a 1-celled ovary; 
filiform, lying i in a groove on the filament ; stigma turbinate ; 
ietal; ovules numerous. Fruit a globose capsule, 
dchiscing at the apex. Seeds many, minute, oblong. 
taminodes linear, subulat salta 
Staminodes with a narrow clas and flattened, petaloid blade.. panes 
2128. ManrisIa sanTaToria Sims; F. B. I. vi. 200. Globba 
subulat i, 81 
Chittagong. 
A herb with perennial seis and annual leafy stems 
1-2 feet high ; panicle 3-6 
2129. MANTISIA SPATHULATA Schull. ; F. B. I. vi. 201. Globba 
spathulata F. I. i. 88. 
Chittagong. 
