494 



(1) T. Indicot. (Dal%.) 



Dalz. in Hook. Joum. Bot. III. p. 346. 



Spec. Chae. Stemless : root small, tuberous, perennial : leaves 

 long-petioled, cordate-hastate, entire, basal lobes obtuse : scape 

 long-exserted : spatbe convolute at tbe base, above narrow-elongated, 

 acumiuate, flat : spadix cyHndric above, slender, as long as the 

 spathe : scape in fruit twisted and bent downwards, the fruit 

 resting on the ground. 



Vingorla, flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS XIII. LAGENANDEA. 



Polyandria Monoefynia. Sex: Syst; 



Gen. Chab. Spathe tubulose at the base, the middle cleft some- 

 what closed, from the middle much attenuated, subulate, valve almost 

 closing the tube, connate with the muoronate vertex of the spadix : • 

 spadix enclosed, interruptedly androgynous, middle naked fiHform : 

 stamens numerous, collected together at the hemispherical top of the 

 spadix, sessile, spirally arranged: anthers didymous, 2-celled, cells 

 lageniform : ovaries numerous, verticelled round the base of the 

 spadix, free, obconical, angled by mutual pressure, softly echinulate 

 around the apex, 1 -celled, ovules 4 — 8 erect on a basilar placenta : 

 stigma sessile, flat, discoid, 5-comered, papUlose : capsules (ripe) a 

 little fleshy, collected together at the apex of the scape, formiug a 

 head a finger in diameter : seeds cylindric-oblong, furrowed, hilum 

 fleshy, integument of the seed breaking : embryo cyliudiic iu 

 copious homy albumen. 



(1) L. TOxioABiA. (Bah.) 



Ident. Dalzell 1. c. p. 289. 



Spec. Chab Marshy, 3-feet, root or rhizome thick, creeping : 

 leaves long-petioled, oblong, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, large : sheaths 

 stipulary, j opposite the leaf : scapes axillary, solitary, compressed : 

 spathe longer than the scape, tubular at the base, attenuated into a 

 long slender apex : fruit compound : seeds minute. 



Marshes of South Concan. Belgaum. It is a deadly poison. 

 Flowering in February. 



ORDEE CLXXXI. TYPHACE^. 



Male and female flowers in distinct spadices of the same 

 plant, narrowly contracted, some to a simple pistil, some 

 reduced to a naked stam^i, mostly barren : fertile stamens 



