Cartonema.] OXXXIX. GOMMELINACE^. 1657 



2. C. spicatum (spicate), R. Bi;. Prod. 271, partly ; Benth. Fl. Austr. V\u 

 91. Stems branching at the base, usually hairy, rarely 6in. high below the 

 spike. Leaves linear, tapering from a. base of 1\ to 3 lines broad just above the 

 sheath to a long point, the longer ones usually exceeding the spike. Bpikes 1 to 

 8, sometimes very compact and only 2in. long, rarely elongated to 6in., and 

 rather loose. Bracts linear- subulate, shorter than the perianth. Outer perianth- 

 segments subulate-acuminate, 5 to 6 lines long, very hairy ; inner segments 

 obovate, nearly as long, often . but not always spotted. Filaments slightly 

 flattened, at first shorter but at length rather longer than the oblong-linear 

 anthers, which open in terminal pores rarely splitting down the sides of the cells- 

 Ovary and capsule glabrous. — Kunth, Enum. iv. 115 ; Bauer, Illustr. Fl. Nov. 

 HoU. t. 7. 



Hab.r Islands of Torres Straits. 



3. C. parviflorum (flowers small). Hassle, in Flora, 1869, 865 ; Benth. FL 

 Austr. vii. 91. Less hairy than C. spicatum, and taller, chiefly from the length 

 of the spike, the leaves very long and narrow. Spike loose from the first with, 

 the flowers all distant and often lengthening to 1ft. or even more. Outer 

 perianth-segments 3 to 4 lines long, inner ones usually more or less dotted. 

 Filaments very short, anthers oblong, the cells opening in some specimens in, 

 terminal pores only, in others the slit . extending to the base. Capsule small, 

 glabrous. ' • 



Hab.: Musgrave Eleo. Tele. Station, T. Barclay -Millar. 



4. C. brachyantherum (anthers short), Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 92. A dwarf 

 plant, the stems not above 1 to i2in. high below the spike, the leaves mostly 

 exceeding the spikes. Spikes about\lfin. long, dense and hairy as in C. spicatum, 

 but the flowers very much smaller, like those of C. parviflorum, and the anthers 

 different from those of all other species, being shorter than broad, the cells open- 

 ing laterally to the base. Capsule glabrous. 



Hab.: Port Denisonj Fitzalan. 



Oeder CXL. FLAGELLARIACE^. 



Flowers small, in terminal panicles, uni- or bi-sexual. Sepals 6, persistent,. 

 imbricate. Stamens 6, hypogynous, filaments free ; anthers basifixed erect.. 

 Ovary superior, 3-celled ; style short, 3-cleft, or styles 3 ; ovules solitary in the- 

 cells, anairopous. . Fruit a small berry or a drupe with 1 to 3 pyrenes. Seeds 

 laterally attached ; testa membranous or thick, albumen floury ; embryo 

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

 petiole sheathing. 



Plants of the Old World and Paoifio. Genera and species few. 



1. FLAGELLARIA. , 



(Referring to the long flexible shoots resembling whips.) 



Perianth persistent, of 6 distinct nearly equal spreading segments, thin but- 

 colored, the 3 inner ones rather larger. Stamens 6, hypogynous; filaments, 

 short, free ; anthers erect, exceeding the perianth, the cells opening laterally in 

 longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, B-celled, with one laterally attached ovule in 

 each cell ; style deeply divided into 3 Hnear-clavate stigmatio lobes. Fruit a 

 small nearly globular indehisoent drupe, the exocarp thin, slightly succulent, 

 the . endocarp hard, 1 or rarely 2-celled, with 1 seed in each cell. Seed 

 globular with a thin membranous testa closely lining the endocarp, and a copious 



