A NEW ANGIOSPERMIC RECORD FOR BANGLADESH

The genus Tacca Forst., under the monogeneric family Taccaceae, is represented by ten species, nine in the tropics of the Old World and one in tropical South America. It is well-developed in Malesia, where eight out of nine Old World species occur (van Steenis 1975). Hooker (1892) recorded four species from the whole of British India (including present Bangladesh), out of which only two (T. pinnatifida J. R. & G. Forst. = T. leontopetaloides (L.) O. Ktze. and T. integrifolia Ker-Gawl.) stand valid and the other two (T. cristata Jack and T. laevis Roxb.) became synonyms under T. integrifolia (va