1102 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Typha. 
ute, monecious or, by abortion, dicecious, densely crowded in 
globose or cylindric, 1-sexual, bracteate spikes, of which the upper 
e males; bracteoles 0. Perianth of membranous green scales 
or slender hairs. ¢ Stamens 1-7; filaments free or connate; 
anthers basifixed, erect, gait or linear-oblong; dehiscence 
longitudinal ; connective ene produced. Pistillode 0. ?¢ 
Ovary superior; 1-2-ce ; cells l-ovuled; ovules pendulous 
from apex; styles i short or long, persistent, laterally 
papillosely — Fruit small, membranous or drupaceous. 
Seeds pen albumen fleshy or floury ; embryo axial, cylin- 
dric, radical ae Ddehened, plumule in a lateral slit. 
996. Typha Linn. 
Marsh herbs; leaves erect, spongy. Flowers small, in ve 
dense, superposed, cylindric spikes, often intermixed with dilated- 
tipped hairs. Perianth of capillary hairs, or in the male flowers 
obsolete. Stamens 1 or more, tip of connective thickened. Ovary 
often reduced to a hair with clavate tip, long-stalked, narrowed 
into a capillary style, << a clavate or filiform stigma. Frutt 
mbr: 
very minute; pericarp ranous, Ge ent or follicular. 
Seed with striate testa; 2 iii floury. 
Leaves trigonous above the sheath ; pollen 4-globate ......... elephantina. 
Leaves semi-cylindric above the sheath ; pollen simple ........- angustata 
2290. TypHA ELEPHANTINA Roxb.; F. I. iii. 566; F. B. I. vi. 489. 
- Bengal; C. Bengal; E.B ngal, 
A tall bulrush, 8-12 feet high. Beng. Hogla. 
2291. TypHa ancusTaTa Chaub. & res F. B. I. vi. 489. 7. 
angustifolia F. I. iii. ike 5. Ae. 
a most of the provin 
tall bulrush, 6-10 “test high. Hind. Pater; Beng- 
hae hogla. 
Order CXLY. AROIDEA. 
Herbs, usually glabrous, very rarely armed, with watery, acrid, 
or milky juice, stemless or with a short stock or corm or tuber, OF 
shrubs with sympodial branches, climbing by aerial roots. Leaves 
in shrubby species alternate, distichous or spiral; in herbaceous 
few clustered or solitary, raidiedl) sometimes appearing without oF 
after the flowers ; petiole with sheathing base, lamina entire OF 
