390 CLX. coMMELiNACBiK. (J. D. Hooker.) [Floscopa. 



7. FXiOSCOPA, Lour. 



Erector subscandent herbs. £ea.j)e« lanceolate. Flowers in terminal or 

 axillary thyrsoid panicles, bracteate ; cymes secund-flowered (not seorpioid). 

 Sepals 3, oblong, free. Petals free, obovate. Stamens 6, perfect (or one 

 imperfect); filaments glabrous. Ovary 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled; style 

 simple. Capsule 2-celled, crustaceous, looalicidal. Seeds hemispheric. — 

 Species about 11, tropical. 



1 . F. scandens, Lour. Fl. Coch. 193 ; glabrous or pubescent, stems 

 prostrate, branches suberect, leaves snbpetioled acuminate, cymes panioled 

 villous or hirsute. Glarlte Monogr. 26.5. J<\ panicnlata, Hassk. PI. Jwngh. 

 157; Commel. Ind. 167. F. Hamiltonii, undulata petiolata and Meyeni- 

 anas, Sassk. Commel. Ind. 166, 167. Dithyroearpus paniculatus, Kunth 

 Emmi. iv. 70 ; Clarke Comm. & Cyrt. Beng. 34 ; Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 256. D. Meyenianus and rufus, Kunth I. c. 78, 79. D. petiolatus, Kothii, 

 and undulatus, Wight Ic. t. 2079, 2080. Tradescantia panicnlata, Boxb. 

 Cor. PI. ii. t. 109 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 119 ; Both Nov. 8p. 188. T. rufa, Presl 

 Bel. SaenJc. i. 138. Commelina cymosa and densiflora, Blume Enum. i. 

 4. 0. hispida, Smn. niss., and 0. Hamiltonii, Spreng. Synt. iv., and Our. 

 post. 25 and v. 186. Aneilema hispidum, Don Prodr. 45 ; Wall. Cat. 5204. 

 A. cymosum and densiflorum, Kunth JSnum. iv. 69. Lamprodithyros ' 

 paniculatus, Hassh. in Flora, 1863, 389. 



Throughout tropical India, in swamps from B. Nepal, Sikkim and the Khasia 

 Hills to Tbavancobe, Malacca and Ceylon. — Distkib. Eastern Asia and 

 tropical Australia. 



Stem stout, erect, creeping below. Leaves 2-6 by J-I5 in., sessile or petioled ; 

 sheaths lax, short, glabrous or hirsute; mouth ciliate. Panichs shortly peduncled, 

 pyramidal, with long erect or ascending many-fld. branches, blowers small, sub- 

 globose, racemose, lower bracteate upper ebracteate ; sepals villous ; petals white, 

 lilac or rosy. Capsule ^ in. loag, orbicular, or ellipsoid, acute, compressed, shining. 

 Seeds glaucous. 



OnDER CLXI. FXiAasXiXiARIEa:. 



stem tall, leafy, erect or scandent. Leaves many-nerved or plaited, 

 petiole sheathing. Flowers small, in terminal panicles, uni- or bi-sexual. 

 Sepals 6, persistent, imbricate. Stainens 6, hypogynous, filaments free ; 

 anthers basifixed, erect. Ovary superior, 3-celled ; style short, 3-cleft, or 

 styles 3 ; ovules solitary in the cells, anatropons. Fruit a small berry, or 

 a drupe with 1-3 pyrenes. Seeds laterally attached, testa membranous or 

 thick, albumen fiowery ; embryo lenticular. — Genera 3, species 7-8, of the 

 Old World and Pacific. 



Stem scandent. Flowers 2-sexnal. Drupe 1-2-seeded .... 1. Flagellaeia. 

 Stem erect. Flowers dioecious. Berry 1-3-seeded 2. SusuM. 



1. FIiAGEIiXiARXA, Linn. 



Stem climbing by the cirrhose leaf-tips. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 

 subpetaloid. Style arms 3, entire or 2-partite. Drupe with a thin succu- 

 lent exocarp and bony 1-2-seeded endooarp. — Species 2, a Fijian and the 

 following :^ 



