Typha.] clxv. ttphaceje. (J. D. Hooker.) 489 



1. T. elephantlna, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 566; stem 6-12 ft., leaves 

 I-I4 in. broad trigonous above the sheath, margins often undulate above 

 the middle, flowers braoteolate, pollen 4-globate, stigma lanceolate. Kwn'.h 

 EtMm. iii. 92 ; Schnizl. Typha, 26 ; Koerner in Verh. Zool. Bot. Q-es. Wien. 

 xxxix. 165, t. 5, f. 10 ; Eurz in Jowm. Bqt, v. 95 ; in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xxxviii. i. 146. T. latifolia, Edgew. in Proe. Linn. 800. vi. (1862) 194 ; 

 Xurz I. c. T. Maresii, Balland. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 1887, 389. 



Marshes from N.W. India to Assam and southwards. — Disteib. Algiers. 



Male spike 8-12 in., raehis clothed witli short often forked hairs ; bracts 3 or 

 more ; anthers 1-5, ^'5 in. long. Pern, spike much stouter 6-10 by l-l in. diaui. ; 

 flowers mixed with cUvate pistillodes ; bracteoles with fasciate tips much longer 

 than the hairs, which are shorter than the stigmas. 



2. T. javanica, Schnizl. in Zolling. Verz. Ind. Arch. Pfl. 77 ; stem 

 4-6 ft., leaves ^-J in. broad biconvex above the sheath, hairs of male fl. 

 simple forked or toothed, bracteoles with subspathnlate tips and hairs 

 shorter than the linear stigmas, fern. fl. mixed with pistillodes, pollen 

 simple. Bohrb. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 1869, 98 ; Koerner in Vei-h. 

 Bot. Zool. Ges. Wien. xxxix. 157, t. v. f. 6. T. angnstifolia, Thia. Ermm. 

 331. T. latifolia. Moon Gat. Oeyl. PI. 81. 



CBTiiOir, Thwaites, &c. — Disthib. Ms. Mascarene and Malay Islands. 



A smaller plant than T. elepTiantina, from which it differs in the form of the base 

 of the leaf, simple pollen and linear stigma. Fern, spike 5-6 by -^-f in, diam. 

 Anthers J in. 



3. T. angrustata, Ghaub. & Bory Exped. Scient. Moree Bot. 338 ; 

 stem 6-10 ft., leaves |-1 in. broad, semioyliadrio above the sheath, brac- 

 teoles of fem. fl. subspathnlate equalling the linear stigmas, both longer 

 than the hairs, fem. fl. mixed with olavate-tipped pistillodes, pollen simple. 

 Bohrb. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 1869, 81 ; Buiss. Fl. Orient, v. 60 ; 

 Aitchis. in Trans. lAnn. Soc. IT.S. iii. 120; Kcerner in Verh. Bot. Zool. 

 Ges. Wien. xxxix. 159, t. iv. f. 6, v. f. 1. T. angustifolia, Kurz in Journ. 

 Bot. V. 95 {excl. syn.); Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 567; Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xix. 188 ; Wall. Oat. 4989. 



NOETHEBN India, from Kashmir to Mttnnipobe and southwards to Scinde 

 and COKOMANDBL. — Disteib. N. Asia and westward, N. Africa and S. Kurope. 



Closely resembles the common European T. anguslifolia, Linn., which is dis- 

 tinguished by the bracteoles shorter than the stigmas. 



4. T. Iiazmannl, Lepech. in Nov. Act. Acad. Petersb. 81, 355 {excl. 

 syn. DC.), t. 4. ; dwarf, 2-3 ft. high, leaves slender semioylindric at the 

 sheath, male spikes 1-2 in., fem. f-1 in. by ^-i in. diam., fem. fl. ebracteolate 

 mixed with pistillodes, hairs very short much shorter than the subobtnse 

 stigmas, pollen simple. Koerner in Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. 167, 

 t. iv. f. 3, V. f. 15. T, minima, Kiirz in Journ. Bot. v. 96. T. Martini, 

 Aitchis. in Jowm. Linn. Soc. xix. 188. T. stenophylla, Bohrb. in Verh. 

 Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 90 ; Baiss. El. Orient, v. 50. 



Kashmie, alt. 9000 ft., Thomson, 6-iles. — Disteib. N. Asia and westwards to 

 Bussia. 



At once distinguished from all the previous species by its small size and slender 

 leaves, but very closely allied in the Ewropean and Oriental T. minima, which, 

 according to Koerner, has bracteoles. 



2. SFAReAMXUnil, Linn. 

 Flowers in globose unisexual heads, subtended by leafy bracts. 



