. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. PETALOIDE^ 291 {Canna indica) (fig. 263), which runs wild, and is also cultivated for its showy flowers; sital-pati {Clino- gyne dichotoma) (fig. 264), a shrubby leafy cane-like plant of Chittagong the split stems of which are woven into mats known as sital-pati. Both Zingiberacece and Marantacece flowers are rendered conspicuous by their brightly-coloured peta- loid staminodia, one of which is usually large and more brightlycoloured than the rest, and serves as a platform for the visiting butterflies and bees. This large staminodia is named the LABELLUM Or
. A manual of Indian botany. Botany. PETALOIDE^ 291 {Canna indica) (fig. 263), which runs wild, and is also cultivated for its showy flowers; sital-pati {Clino- gyne dichotoma) (fig. 264), a shrubby leafy cane-like plant of Chittagong the split stems of which are woven into mats known as sital-pati. Both Zingiberacece and Marantacece flowers are rendered conspicuous by their brightly-coloured peta- loid staminodia, one of which is usually large and more brightlycoloured than the rest, and serves as a platform for the visiting butterflies and bees. This large staminodia is named the LABELLUM Or LIP. 3. Miisacece.—Her- baceous plants, often of great size. Leaves very large, petioles long and thick, with air-chambers, big con- cave sheaths, which successively overlap and form a spurious stem. Flowers in spikes with large spathaceous bracts, stamens 5, ovary and fruit as in Sub-orders i and 2. Seeds with mealy endo,- sperm. The Order is tropical. Common plants are> the various kinds of kala or Plantain or Banana, belonging to the genus Miisa, in which the sepals, form a 3- to 5-lobed spathaceous calyx, and the petals; join together to form a unilateral corolla enclosing the stamens and the style. The fibres of Miisa textilis, ^ Malayan plant, yield Manilla Hemp of Fig:. 264.—Sital-pati {CUiiogyne dichotoma). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bose, G. C. London, Blackie & Son Ltd.
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