1048 BENGAL PLANTS. (Maranta. 
cymes; bracts narrow, spathaceous; bracteoles 0. Sepals 2 
narrow, subequal. Petals 3, connate in a corolla with ceylindri 
tube; lobes subequal. tamens, 1 partially perfect, pee 
below in a corolla-like tube; lobes petaloid, one having a 
are marginal anther-cell, the rest unequal, 1 or 2 lateral large, 
one hood-like, sometimes with an empty anther-cell; the lip large 
or small, crested. Carpels 3, two becoming obsolete and forming 
a 1-locular, 1-ovuled ovary, with 2 small, empty locules; style 
adnate to staminal tube; stigma oblique, wide, almost 2-lipped. 
Fruit indehiscent, ovoid-oblong, or somewhat 3-cornered, more or 
less oblique; pericarp fleshy. Seed erect; arillus green outside, 
scarious within; embryo curved. 
2168. fo ssinanal peeraG: Linn.; KE. D. M. 267. 
Occasionally plan 
A herb, with Ser oat The rootstock yields Arrow- 
root starch. Vernac. Tikhur. Arrowroot. 
; 941. Clinogyne Salisb. 
Shrubs with leafy, cane-like stems, copiously, dichotomously 
branched ; rootstock tuberous or woody; leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate. Flowers in pairs in lax-flowered, terminal panicles ; 
bracts long, firm, narrow. Sepals 8, short. Petals 3, conniving 
but hardly connate in a tube below, their tips spreading. Stamens, 
1 perfect, all connate in a corolla-like tube, segments petaloid, 
unequal, one with a single, a attached anther-cell. Car- 
pels 3, connate in a 8-celled ovary; ovules 1 in each a Ries 
te below to the staminal tube, free, hooked above; § 
capitate. Frutt se cia 1-3-seeded. Seeds eRe : 
2169. CLINoGYNE DICHOTOMA Salisb. ; ap B. I. vi.258. Phrynium 
dichotomum F, I ; 625. 
E. Bengal ; Chitierne. 
A shrub, 12-15 feet high. Beng. Mukta-pati, pati-pati, 
madar-pati. 
942, Phrynium Willd. 
Herbs with gente rootstocks ; leaves large, oblong, radical ; 
petioles long, simulating stems. Flowers in compound spikes; 
produced from side of petiole or direct from rootstock; bracts 
2-more-flowered. Sepals 8, narrow. Petals 3, conna 
