324 63. FICOIDE^!. 



Almost cosmopolitan on tropical and subtropical sea-shores, 

 and extending into some temperate regions. 



We are not quite sure that Pyxipoma, Eenzl, is correctly re- 

 ferred here; but Hance's Psammanthe is certainly Sesuvium, and 

 so is a specimen in the Kevv Herbarium from Timor, received from 

 the Paris Herbarium, and labelled Trianthema polyandrum, Blume. 

 Rohrbach, loc. supr. cit., refers all the American forms of Sesuvium 

 to S. Portulacastrum, and states that he does not know whether 

 the Indian S. repens is sufficiently distinct to be maintained as a 

 species. Bentham, Baker, Clarke, and other English botanists 

 unite the two, and we follow them ; yet the plant varies much in 

 different localities, hence probably the confusion and multiplicity 

 of names. Maximowicz evidently holds a different view, as he 

 distinguishes Pyxipoma, and concerning Sesuvium Portulacastrum 

 he records it from Kamtschatka (in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1879, 

 p. 21), adding " omnino typica planta Americana, nunc in Asia 

 primum detecta." 



1. Mollugo Spergnla, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, p. 131 ; DC. Prodr. i. 

 p. 391 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 662 ; Hance in 

 Journ. Bot. 1879, p. 11. 



Hainan {Bullock ! Swinhoe !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



2. Mollugo stricta, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, p. 131 ; DC. Prodr. i. 

 p. 391 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 23 ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 137 ; 

 Clarke in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 663. 



Mollugo triphylla, Lour. Fl. Cochiv.ch. p. 62. 



Shantung {Maingay !); Kiangsi : Kiukiang (Shearer !) ; Hu- 

 peh: Ichang and immediate neighbourhood (A. Henry !) ; Kwang- 

 tung : Pakhoi (Play/air !) ; Hongkong ( Wright !). Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



India, Malaya, Polynesia, and Japan. 



64. HMBELLIFERtE *. 



1. Hydrocotyle asiatica, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, p. 234; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. p. 62 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 134 ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 669 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. xii. p. 461 ; 

 Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 565. 



* So large a proportion of our specimens of the plants of this Order are in 

 a young state that we have experienced great difficulties in determining many 

 of them, whilst others remain quite doubtful. 



