Flagellaria.] CLxr. plagbllarib;!!. (J. D. Hooker.) 391 



P. indica, Linn. 8p. PI. 333 ; leaves sessile lanceolate with sheathing 

 bases. Kunth Enum. iii. 370; Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 154; Bdlz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl.256; Wall. Oat. 5198; Benth. Fl. Austral. yH. 10; Miquel Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 249 ; Sedoute Lil. v. t. 257 ; Gaertn. Fruat. i. 16, t. l^.—Sheede 

 Mort. Mai. vii. t. 53. 



Throughout India, chiefly near the coast, from the Sundbbbukds and Chitta- 

 GOKO, to Ceylon and SmsAPOKE.— Disthib. Trop. Asia and Africa. 



Glabrous, climbing lofty trees ; stem thick as the thumb below ; branches 

 clothed with the closed leaf-sheaths. Leaves 6-10 in., variable in breadth, lanceo- 

 laite, tip a slender spiral tendril, many-nerved, not plaited ; sheath 2-auricled. 

 Panicle 6-18 in. broad and irregularly branched j flowers clustered, sessile ; bracts 

 scale-like. Sepals about Jj 'n- long, white, subscarious. Stamens exserted ; anthers 

 as long as the filaments, deeply 2-fid at the base; ovary narrow, trigonous. FruU 

 pisiform, red. i 



Var. minor ; stem very slender, leaves 3-5 by i-i in., panicle 1-3 in. broad. P. 

 minor, Slume in Soem. §• Sch. Syst. vi. 1493 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sai. iii. 249, ^ 

 Suppl. 598. P. angustifolia. Wall. Cat. 5199.— Malay Peninsula. 



2. SUSUnx, Blu-me. 



Stem stout, erect, simple or branched above. Leaves very long, sessile 

 or petioled, many -nerved. Flowers dicBcious, in broad panicles, sessile; 

 bracts minute or 0. Sepals unequal, orbicular, concave, inner petaloid. 

 Male fl. Stamens 6, adnate to the base of the sepals. Pistillode 3-6- 

 angled or 3-lobed. Fl. pem. Staminodes small or 0, stigmas 8, connate in 

 a 3-lobed disk. Berry pisiform, succulent, 1-3-seeded ; stigmas persistent, 

 lateral or excentric. — Species 2, Indian and Malayan. 



1. S- anthelminticum, Blume in SchuUes. f. Syst. vii. 1493; 

 panicle broad spreading irregularly branched. Kwnth hnum. iii. 371 ; 

 Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 247 ; Thwaites Enu-m. 340. Hauguana, Blmne 

 Fnum. Fl. Jav. 15. 



Malay Peninsula and Penangs, common. Ceylon, in marshes.^DiSTEiB. 

 Malay Islands. 



Glabrous, or young leaves and panicle sparsely clothed with short cottony 

 pubescence. Stem 3-5 ft. high, stout, leafy at the tip, or throughout. Leaves 

 3-8 ft. long, long petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, coriaceous, many- and closely 

 nerved, with conspicuous (when dry) cross nervules; petiole 1-3 ft., base sheathing. 

 Fanicle erect, shortly stoutly peduncled, decompound, rachis and branches stout. 

 Flowers about J in. broad, rather remotely sessile on the branches of the panicle, 

 yellowish; perianth segments orbicular, concave; filaments short, dilated below, 

 anthers oblong. Herry usually l-seeded. 



2. S> malayanum, Plamch. inss. ; more or less pubescent with scat- 

 tered white hairs, panicle narrow, branches whorled. Veratronia mala- 

 yaua, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 653. Veratrum ? malayauum. Jack in Mai. 

 Misc. i. V. 25 {Rook. Bat. Misc. ii. 74) ; Wall. Cat. 3717. T. anthelmin- 

 ticum, Maury in Bev. Sort. 1889, 77, f. 23. 



Penang, Pebak, SiNOAroEE and Malacca. — Disteib. Malaya. 



Described by Jack as with the leaves all radical and 3-4 ft. long; but I suspect 

 his description is taken from a young plant. — It may be doubted from Blume's 

 description (in Willdenow) whether this or iS. anthelminiicum- is the plant intended, 

 but I assume that Miquel must have had access to the specimens of that author, 

 or he would not have described S. malayanum as a different genus. If really different 

 the two species are very closely allied. 



