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(4) D. EAMOsissiMA, (R. Wight.) 

 Ident. Wight 1. c. t. 1S|20. 



Spec. Chae. Ehizome very long, slender, much branched with 

 numerous lateral floriferous branchlets, with one or several flowers 

 aggregated towards the apex, each flower-bud usually accompanied 

 with 2 slender filiform leafy branchlets : leaves subulate, imbricat- 

 ing, outer ones short, obtuse, middle ones longer, acute, inner ones 

 forming the short sheath: filaments very short, afterwards elongated: 

 anthers oblong, sagittate at the base, cells distinct : styles filiform, 

 hispid, the length of the ovary. 



Eivers in Malabar, near Cochin. 



(5) D. PUMHELLA. 



Ideni. Tulasne Monogr. Podost. p. 189 (under Temiola). — Dalz. 

 Bomb. flor. p. 245. 



' 8yn. Lawia pulchella, Tul. Mnianthus pulcheUus, Walpers. 



Spec. Chae. Rhizome thin, linear, branched, short : flower- 

 bearing here and there : leaves linear, marked with a whitish line in 

 the middle, distichous, interior ones the flower-bearing bud, verti- 

 celled and united at the base : pedicel of middling length. 



Concan rivers. 



(6) D. LONGIPES. 



Ident. Tul. 1. c. — Dalz. 1. c. (under Temiola.) 



Syn. Mnianthus longipes, Walp. Ann. III. 443. 



Spec. Chae. Rhizome thin, broadly -linear, sparingly branched : 

 leaves long-linear, acute, marked with a, whitish line, near the 

 flower inserted in a circle, and at the same time united downwards : 

 flowers long-pedicelled. » 



Conean rivers. 



ORDER CXLVII. CHLORANTHACE^. 



Shrubs or small trees with aromatic taste and smell: 

 branches nodosely articulated : leaves opposite, petioled, 

 simple, penninerved, serrated or rarely quite entire, petioles 

 connate at the base into a short stem-clasping sheath bistipu- 

 late on both sides: inflorescence spikeid, terminal or rarely 

 axillary: flowers small, hermaphrodite, densely spiked, or 

 diclinous, males spiked, females sub-panicled, sessile, each 



