309 



(1) J. MOiTTicoLA. fStevdel.) 



Ident. Steudel eyn. p. 301. 



Spec. Chab. Culm erect, terete-angular, leafy, often rooting or 

 proliferous towards the base : sheaths elongated, free at the mouth : 

 leaves compressed, nodulose : panicle effuse, compound, primary 

 rays elongated, straight or spreading, seldom horizontal, with 

 3 — 4-raylets at the apex : raylets often sending out other divisions : 

 heads of flowers terminal and lateral and sessile in the forks, 

 10 — 20-flowered, either naked or with leaflets twice exceeding 

 them : flowers triandrous : sepals nearly equal, lanceolate, acumiQate. 



Neilgherries. 



(2) J. Benghalensis. fKunth.J 

 Ident. Kunth Enum. III. 360. Steudel 1. c. p. 308. 



Spec. Chae. Culms erect, striated, leafy at the base, 1 -leaved 

 above : leaves filiform, channelled : flowers 8, aggregated in heads 

 at the 'apex of the culm, sheath double, one leaf -bearing : sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, nearly equal. 



Bengal. 



ORDER CLXVI. COMMELYNACE^. 



Flowers hermaphrodite : calyx double, each of 3 sepals : 

 outer sepals distinct, persistent, inner ones petaloid, sessile or 

 clawed, distinct or rai'ely connate into a tube at the base, one 

 often less deformed, caducous or persistent, the unequal sepal 

 of either calyx outermost, embracing the lateral ones : stamens 

 6, hypogynous or inserted at the base of the inner sepals, 

 opposite the sepals, some often sterile, deciduous: filaments 

 filiform, free, usually bearded : anthers 2-celled, introrse ; 

 cells more or less distinct, dehiscing lengthways : ovary 

 free, usually sessile, 3- very rarely 2-celled, cells oppo- 

 site the outer sepals : ovules usually twin, superposed, 

 1 — 2-seriated, inserted at the central angle of the cells, 

 orthotropal: style terminal, simple: stigma simple, obtuse, 

 capitellate, peltately enlarged, excavated or obsoletely 3-lobed : 

 capsule 3— 2-celled, 3 — 2-valved, valves septiferous in the 

 middle, very rarely indehiscent: seeds 2 or 1, compressed 

 angled or quadrate, peltate: testa membranaceous, hardish, 

 reticulate scrobiculate : albumen densely fleshy : embryo 



