Excerpt from Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, Vol. 1 Submerged stem elongate branched leafy. Leaves short in whorls of 3 or 4, or lower ones opposite. Flowers un'isexual, solitary in axillary spathes. Male shortly pedicelled. Sepals ovate, petals narrower. Stamens three, anthers ovate two-celled. Female sessile, spathe tubular.' Perianth as in the male but segments narrower. Ovary enclosed in the spathe except the long beak. Styles 3 rarely 2 linear. Fruit narrow, seeds oblong. A single species occurring in Tropical Africa, Mascarene Islands, Asia and Australia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.