SPADICIFLOR.E 



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climber often seen in gardens about Calcutta climbing 

 upon palm and other trees; barha- (large) pana or 

 toka-pana {Pistia Stratiotes) (see fig. 3), a floating 

 stemless stoloniferous herb with rosettes of sessile 

 obcordate cuneate leaves and numerous fibrous roots 



Fig. 267. — G^a-pipul {Scindapsus officmalis) 

 sp,, Spadix. ((.;-,, Adventitious roots. 



and a small spadix adnate to the back of the tube of the 

 spathe, free above; ghet-kachu or ghekul {Typhonium 

 trUobattini) (see fig. 105), a common tuberous herb of 

 waste places with a bright-red appendix and a spathe 

 bright-red on the inner surface. Closely allied to 

 Pistia is Lemiia (see fig. 13), Duck-weed, or khudi- 

 pana, two or three species of which are found in great 

 abundance in tanks and pools forming a compact green 



