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GRIFFITHELLA HOOKERIANA, Warming in Fam. 
Podost., VI., I.C.; Mniopsis Hookeriana, Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
and Podost. Monogr.; Wight; Podostemon ecostatum, Griff. 
MS. ex Tul. ; P. Hookerianus, Wedd.^ 1. c. ; Hooker in FI. Br. 
Ind. ; Grif&tliella Willisiana, Warming., 1. c. 
Spathe tubular to funnel-shaped. Stigmas subulate to 
fimbriate. 
Thallus with growth like that of Dicræa, 1-20 cm. in diameter, most 
various in ultimate form. Leaves to 5 mm, long. Floral buds usually 
closely crowded. Bracts usually 4-6, varying much in degree of cowl- 
shapedness, the leafy tips being attached sometimes at the top, 
sometimes in the centre of the back of the sheath, Spathe tubular, 
expanding slightly towards the outer end, to broadly funnel-shaped, 
and splitting into two, three, or many teeth at the tip. Stamens equalling 
or slightly or much exceeding ovary and stigmas. Stigmas subulate 
cuneate, and then more or less toothed, or fimbriate, the upper one then 
often completely divided into two to the base. Fruiting pedicel 
3-15 mm. Fruit varying much in size. 
Western Ghats of India, from Bombay to S. Kanara. First 
found by Law. 
G. Hookeriana Bomhayensis ; Mniopsis Hookeriana, Tul. 
Spathe long, narrow, tubular or funnel-shaped, splitting 
into few teeth ; stigmas simple, subulate. 
Konkan rivers, Law ex hb. Griffith ! Atgaon, in the Khad- 
shi river, 25 miles W. of Poona, R. K. Bhide ! 
G. Hookeriana Willisiana ; G. Willisiana, Warming. 
Spathe short, broadly funnel-shaped, splitting into many 
teeth ; stigmas toothed or fimbriate. 
S. Kanara, C. A. Barber, at Beitangadi, S. Ind. Flora, 
No. 2,515, and Sullia, No. 2,149 ! N. Kanara, Ritchie, 863, 
in the Kala Nuddi (Warming, fig,!). 
WILLISIA, Warming in Fam. Podost. Kgl. Dansk.Vidensk. 
Selsk. Skr., 6 Raekke, t. XL, p. 58, 1901 ; Mniopsidis sp., 
Bedd., Anamallay Plants, Trans. Linn. Soc., XXV., p. 223, 
1865, and t. 25 ; Dicrœœ sp., Wedd. in DC. Prodr. ; Podos- 
temonis Benth. in Hooker FI. Brit. Ind. 
