Monoehoria.'] clvii. pontedbbiace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 363 



P. saggitata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 124; Wall. Ca<.5093. P. dilatata, ^Mdrew* 

 Bot./Bep. vii. t. 490 ; Buch. Bam. in Sytn^s Bmbass. 475 with plate ; Boxb. 

 I. c. 123 ; Wall. Cat. 4094. P. sagittifolia, Serb. Sm/ne. 



Common throughout India and Ceylon. — Distbie. Malay Islands, China. 



Rootstoch spongy ; flowering stems short. Leaves 6-7 by 5-6 in., obtuse or 

 acute, many-nerved ; petiole of the floral leaf tumid above and embracing the 

 short scape, of the radical 18-24 in., broad and sheathing at the base. Inflorescence , 

 centrifugal; flowers long-pedicelled, ^1 in. diam., violet-blue dotted with red; 

 pedicels 1 in. or less ; larger sepal obovate, smaller oblong. Filament spurred. 

 Large anther bine, the others yellow. Capsule J in. diam., subglobose or oblong. 



2. IMC. vag'inalis, Presl Beliq. Btenk. ii. 128 ; rootstook short, leaves 

 long-petioled, from linear to ovate and ovate-cordate, flowers short- 

 pedicelled subspioate. Kunth Bnum. iv. 134 ; Solms Lauh. m A.BG. Monogr. 

 Phanerog. iv. 624 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 548. Pontederia vaginalis, 

 Unn. Mant. 228; Bmb. Fl. Ind. ii. 121; Oar. PI. ii. t. 110; Wall. Gat. 

 5095 ; Dalz. & Oils. Bomb. Fl. I'LZ.—Bheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 44. 



Throughout India; from Kashmir eastwards to Assam and southwards to 

 Travaneore and Singapore. Ceylon common. — Distbxb. Malay Islands, China, 

 Japan, Trop. Africa. 



Eootstock suberect (creeping, Somhurgh) . Leaves much as in If. hastafoUa, 

 but few-nerved. Inflorescence centripetal, few- or many-fld. ; flowers blue, sprinkled 

 with red, very variable in size, pedicels shorter than the perianth. Filaments and 

 anthers as in M. hastcefolia. — A moat variable plant. 



Var. plantaginea, Solms Laub. 1. c. ; smaller, leaves often narrow, raceme 

 few-fld. M. pauciflora, Kunth ^ Miquel U. cc. M. linearis, Miq. I. c. Pontederia 

 plantaginea, 5oa!6. I. c. 123; Wall. Cat. 5096. P. pauciflora, Blume Enum. Fl. 

 Jav. i. 32. P. racemosa, Herh. Ham. — India, Java. 



Oadee CLVllI. PKIIiVDRACEH;. 



Erect herbs. Leaves narrowly linear. Flowers small, in braoteate 

 spikes or panicles, bisexual, irregular. Perianth inferior, 2-partite ; seg- 

 ments antero-posterior, petaloid, persistent. Stamen 1, mserted on the 

 base of the anterior segment, filament flattened; anther straight or 

 twisted ; staminodes 2, alternate with the sepals, small, petaloid. Ovary 

 free, 3-celled, or 1-celledwith 3 projecting parietal many-oyuled placentas ; 

 style terminal, stigma entire ; ovules anatropous. Oa^sule loouhcidal, 3- 

 valved. Seeds many, small, albumen fleshy, embryo minute.— Genera 3, 

 species 4, Asiatic, Australian and Pacific. 



PKXXiYDRUM j Banks., 

 Spike simple. Anthers at length twisted. Ovary 1-celled. 



P. lanug'inosum, Banhs in Gsertn. Fruct. i. 62, t. 1(3, f. 10; Xunfh 

 Bnum. iii. 380; Bot. Mag. t. 783; Boscoe in Trans. Unn. boc.yuim, 

 t. 20; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 250; Gmllem. Ic PI. Austral, t. ^i fefh 

 Fl. Austral, vii. 74; Ga^uel in A.BG. Monogr. Phom^og. m.2 l/chletd.^ 

 Vog. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Gur. xix, 40 i. 1 ;. Gr^ff. ifotul. m 231 ■ Ic. 

 Pl.Asiat. t. 269, 270. Garciana cochinchmensis, Lour. J<i. LoaHm. i. i&. . 



BgBMA, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS and the Malay Peninsula. -Disieib. China, 

 Malay Islands, Australia. 



