304 57. LYTHRAXTE-ffi. 



China : without locality (Fortune, 181 !) ; Formosa : Tamsui 

 (Oldham, 123 !), north-west (Sioinhoe !) ; Hupeh : Ichang (A. 

 Henry !) ; Yunnan (Anderson !) ; Kwangtung : Pakhoi (Play- 

 fair !), Swatow (Perry !) ; Hongkong (Champion ! Wright ! 

 Wilfordl Urquhartl Tatel Hinds]). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Tropical and subtropical Asia to Japan. 



6. Ammannia senegalensis, Lam. III. i. p. 312, t. 77. f. 2 ; DC. 

 Prodr. iii. p. 77 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 570 ; 

 Koehne in Fngler's Jahrh. i. p. 255 ; Hance in Journ. Pot. 1885, 

 p. 323. 



Ammannia auriculata, Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 7. 



Hupeh : Ichang (A. Henry !) ; Kwangtung : Pakwan moun- 

 tain (Sampson, bb. Hance !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, and America. 



We have followed Clarke in the synonymy of this species, as 

 we have not critically examined the materials. 



1. Woodfordia florlbunda, Salisb. Parad. Pond. t. 42 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Or. ii. p. 737 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 572 ; 

 Hance in Journ. Bot. 1883, p. 321. 



Grislea tomentosa, Roxb. Coram. PI. t. 31; Bot. Mag. t. 1906; DC 

 Prodr. iii. p. 92. 



Woodfordia fruticosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 2. p. 56 ; 

 Koehne in Engler's Jahrb. i. p. 333. 



Lythrum fruticosiim, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2, p. 641. 



Kwangtung : Shiuhing Pass, West river (Ford !). Mus. Brit.; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Tropical Africa and Madagascar, and Baluchistan to China. 



Koehne regards the African W. unijlora, Bich., as specifi- 

 cally distinct, though several English botanists have united it 

 with the present. 



1. Lythrum Salicaria, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 446; DC. Prodr. 

 iii. p. 82 ; Koehne in Engler's Jahrb. i. p. 326 ; Maxim. Ind. Fl. 

 Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 471 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1882, 

 p. 261 ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 133, et in Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. 

 Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 219. 



Chihli : Peking (Pretschneider !) ; Shantung : Chefoo 

 (Stuhlmann !) ; Kiangsu : Chinkiang (Bullock, hb. Hance?); 

 Hupeh : Ichang (A. Henry !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



