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sometimes solitary, sometimes approximated by twos or fours 

 and connate with the filaments, intermixed with more nu- 

 merous scale-shaped sterile stamens : filament long : anthers 

 2-celled, dehiscing lengthways, fixed by the base, erect, cells, 

 contiguous, parallel : pistils sessile or stalked, each surrounded 

 by sterile stamens : ovary 1-ovuled, ovule pendulous from the 

 apex of the cell : style one : stigma tongue-shaped, unilateral, 

 elongated: fruit 1-seeded, a juiceless drupe, indehiscent: seed 

 inserted: testa very thin, membranaceous: embryo straight, 

 cylindric, in the axis of fleshy albumen, furnished with a 

 lateral cleft: radicle superior, looking towards the hilum. — 

 Marshy herbs: stem simple, seldom branched above, terete, 

 without knots, leafy: leaves scattered, narrow-linear, hori- 

 zontal, sheathing at the base : spadices super-posed at the top 

 of the stem or branches, dense flowered, ^obose or cylindric, 

 upper males, lower females. 



GENUS I. TTPHA. 

 monoeeia. Tpiandvia. Sex: Sgst: 



Deriv. From 7)/phos a marsh, the habitat of the species. 



Gen. Ch4e. Spadices two, cylindric, 'pannose, lower female, 

 upper male, one sometimes double : fertile stamens approximated 

 by twos or fours, surrounded by the more numerous sterile ones : 

 pistils long-stalked, 1 -celled: style long, capillaceous : fruit sub- 

 drupaceous : the rest as in the order. 



(1) T. ANGUSTiFOLiA. (Imn.) 



Ident. Linn. Spec. 1377. — Koxb. flor. Ind. lit. p. 567. 



Ikgra/B. Engl. Bot. t. 1456. — ^Flor. Dan. t. 815. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves linear, somewhat channelled below, ex- 

 ceeding the flower-bearing stem: male spadix remote from the 

 female, both cylindric. 



Peninsula. Bengal. Flowering in the rainy season. 



(2) T. BtEPHANTINA. fBoxl.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 566. 



