150 144. PONTEDERIACEX.—146. XYRIDEX. 
Var. plantaginea, Solms-Laubach, in DC. Monogr. Phan. iv. 
p. 924. 
Monochoria plantaginea, Kunth, Enum. Pl iv. p. 185; Benth. Fi. 
Hongk. p. 375, 
Monochoria linearis, Mig. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. p. 549. 
Monochoria Junghuhniana, Hassk., in Flora, xxxv. (1852) p. 115, 
Pontederia plantaginea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 128. 
Pontederia linearis, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bogor. p. 28, et in Flora, xxv. 
(1842) ii. Beibl. p. 4. 
Foxren: Amoy (Hance, 1426!) ; Formosa: Takow ( Henry, 
718 !), South Cape (Henry, 718 A!); HONGKONG (Wright, 540!) ; 
Hainan (A. Henry, 8386!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. . 
Japan, Tonquin, India, and Malay Archipelago. 
145. PHILYDRACEÆ. 
(By N. E. Brown, A.L.S.) 
l. Philydrum lanuginosum, Banks, in Gaertn. Fruct. i. 
p. 62, t. 16. fig. 10; Bot. Mag. t. 783; Kunth, Enum. Pl. iii. 
p. 380; Griffith, Notul. ii. p. 231, Icon. t. 269; Benth. FI. 
Hongk. p. 380; Hance, in Journ. Bot. ix. (1871) p. 202; Caruel, 
in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. p. 3; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 
p. 363. 
Garciana cochinchinensis, Lour. FI. Cochinch. p. 15. 
Kwaneatune: Pakhoi (Playfair, 199!), Canton (Loureiro) ; 
Honexone, Happy Valley and Saywan (Wilford, 315! Wright, 
589! Champion, 290! Seemann, and Leclancher ex Caruel). Mus. 
Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Cochinchina, Tonquin, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 
Australia. 
146. XYRIDEJE. 
(By N. E. Brown, A.L.S.) 
l. Xyris bancana, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat., Suppl. i. p. 608; 
Nilsson, in Kongl. Svensk. Vet.- Akad. Handl. xxiv. no. 14 (1892), 
p. 37; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. p. 366. 
Xyris schoenoides, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 379, non Martius. 
HoxaxoNa (Wright, 548!). Herb. Kew. 
The material of this plant at Kew is too meagre to permit of 
