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CLI. COMMELINACElE. [ Spatholirion.<br />
Capsule oblong,. 3-valved, chartaceous. Seeds 5 to 7 in two rows.<br />
Species 3, two Chinese.<br />
(I) S. ornatum Rzdl. Journ. Bot. l896, p. 329, PI. 360; Mat.<br />
ii. l25. (Fig. 205, p. 36l.)<br />
Leaves 6 or 7, deep green marked white, back pubescent purple,<br />
4 in. long and wide; petioles 4 in. long, brown, pubescent. Scape<br />
purple, 6 in. long; branches '25 in. long. Spathe thick ovate<br />
mucronate, l'5 in. long. Flowers rosy, '25 in. across. Petals<br />
white. Filaments with yellow beard at base. Pistil orange.<br />
Hab. Legeh, Tomoh (Machado) Cult. Botanic Gardens, Singapore<br />
l896, sent down alive by A. D. Machado.<br />
ORDER CLII. ALISMACE/E.<br />
Aquatic or marsh plants. Leaves herbaceous, radical, ovate,<br />
lanceolate or linear. Inflorescence panicled or umbellate. Flowers<br />
fugacious, white or pink, regular. Sepals 3, herbaceous. Petals 3.<br />
Stamens 6 or more, hypogynous or perigynous; anthers basifixed.<br />
Carpels 3 to 6 or more, sessile or stalked, on a flat or raised receptacle.<br />
Style I. Stigma simple. Ovules I or more. Fruit<br />
small achenes or follicles. Seeds exalbuminous.<br />
Achenes long-beaked . .<br />
Achenes very numerous rounded<br />
1. RANALISMA, Stapf.<br />
I. RANALISMA<br />
2. SAGITTA RIA<br />
A stoloniferous herb. Leaves ovate with 9 pairs of nerves.<br />
Inflorescence cymose, 2 or 3 flowers or one only. Sepals persistent.<br />
Receptacle convex, lengthening in fruit. Stamens 9 in one whorl,<br />
hypogynous. Carpels compressed, winged, tipped with the persistent<br />
style. Species I, Malay Peninsula.<br />
(I) R. rostrata Stapf. Ie. Pl. 2652; Ridl. Mat. ii. l27.<br />
(Fig. 206, p. 363.)<br />
Petioles very slender, 4 to 7 in. long, leaf blade thin, rounded,<br />
I to l'5 in. long, '75 to I in. wide. Scape 3 to 5 in. long, slender.<br />
Flowers small, white. Pedicels'5 to I in. long. Bracts oblong,<br />
connate at base. Fruit'5 in. through. Hab. Very rare, in a<br />
patch of black mud in dense forest. Selangor, Batu Caves (Ridley).<br />
I have never seen this plant again.<br />
2. SAGITTARIA, LiM.<br />
Aquatic with long-petioled elliptic-ovate, cordate or sagittate<br />
leaves. Flowers panicled or spicate whorled, unisexual or bisexual.<br />
Stamens 6 or more. Carpels numerous crowded on a globose or
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