Tacea.] DIOSCOREACE®. 1063 
pressed, longitudinally many-striate ; albumen hard, solid, carti- 
laginous or granular ; embryo siitiaibis embedded in the album 
957. Tacca Forst. 
Characters those of the order ; fruit always indehiscent. 
Leaves 3-partite, segments 2-3- or irregularly lobed or cut; _bracts of 
the involucre usually more than natifida 
Leaves entire ; heads of the inv as 4, in two 
Petiole and seape rough ; inner pair of bracts of nthe involuere petioled, 
exceeding the outer sessile pair integrifolia 
Petiole and scape smooth ; both pairs of bracts sessile, subequal 
levis. 
2197. Tacca PINNATIFIDA Forst.:° By. 1 79- Be ov, 287: 
E. D. T. 16, 
ehar; Chota Nagpur; Chittagong; elsewhere some- 
times cultivat 
- ae oe with a globose, tuberous rootstock. San- 
tal. Dha 
2198, Tacca INTEGRIFOLIA Ker; F. B. I. vi. 287. T. aspera 
F. I. ii. 169. 
Chittagong. 
herb, with oblong rootstoc k. 
2199, Tacca nmvis Roxb.; F. I. ii. 171; F. B. I. vi. 288. 
Tippera; Chittagon, 
A herb, with oblong tbokabodle, Vernac. Moti munda. 
Order CXXXIV. DIOSCOREACEZ. 
Large, slender, climbing, rarely shorter and procumbent herbs, 
with usually a thick, fleshy, tuberous, underground rootstock, 
rarely a ere of tuberous roots, sometimes the tuber epigzal, 
and then often woody. Leaves “eee or Seg simple or 
Compound, costate and reticulate; petiol n angled and 
twisted at the base, sometimes articulate. Plow owers small, me 
l-sexual, spicate or racemose, dicecious or moneecious in separa’ 
Spikes, regular; bracts small, often minute, sometimes ne ; 
male racemes see or paniculate, female simple, sometimes 
reduced to 1-2-flow perianth superior, regular, 2-seriately 
6-lobe 3 Pita Pri oc or abby deeply 6-fid, or 
