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XXI. ELATiNE^. (W. T. Thiseltoii Dyer.) 



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.Throughout Int>ia and Ceyi-on; in marshj places. — Distrib. Affghanistan, Persi^ 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. t i 1 



'Stems 3-12 in., erect or with the lower branches decumbent, smooth or thinlv pul>e*- 

 cent-hispid, the Rtem hairs often glandular-capitate. T^eaves ^-f in.» sessile, hn'^ar,^ 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate, tapering below, sharply serrate, acute. Flowers y^ "J;, 

 eessile or shortly pedicelled. Sepals 5, lanceolate, denticulate. Petals and stamens J). 

 Ovary oblong, deeply grooved. Caj)fivle 3-6-celled ; valves with incurved edges, de- 

 liiscing from a central axis. Seeds numerous, ovoid. 



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. verticiUata, Willd. ; Roxh. FL Ind. ii. 456 ; glabrous, stems 

 procumbent rooting, stamens 10. Thw. Enum. 23. Elatine (B) verticmata, 

 W. iScA. Prodr. 41. R. aquatica, Roxb. Corom. PL ii. 22, t. 142; £otss.Jii^ 

 Orient, ii. 783. B. capensis, Linn. ; Rheede Hort. Mai ix. t. 78. </."/; 



Western- Peninsula, Ceylon and RANaooN.— Distrib. Widely spread in the tropics^ 

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A glabrous rather succulent annual aquatic herh, \-\ ft. Leaves 1-li in-* .^P? °'! 

 elliptic-lanceolate, tapering at either end, acute, faintly crenate-serrate ; stipules n - 



rowly deltoid, toothed, acute. Sepals 5, narrow-lanceolate, obliquely acuminate, "1|4J\ 

 herbaceous. Petals 5. Capsule globose ovoid. Seeds minute, slightly curved, "^"^, 

 and transversely rugose. — Not a native of the Cape, Linnaeus's original name has tne - 

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5, rarely 4 j petals contorted in bud. Stamens qo, or rarely definite, .5- 

 5-adelphou3, rarely free or all connate ; anthers versatile. Ovary S-S-c*''? 

 lary, 1- or 3-5-celled ; styles as many, filiform, free or united ; ovules i^^ ^ 

 CO, on parietal or axile placentas, anatropous, raphe lateral or ^."P^"^^ 

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Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo 

 ;urved.— DiSTRiB. Temp., and mountains of warm regions ; ge: 

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Tribe L Sypericese. Ccr/Jsw/e dehiscing septicidally or at the placentas.^ 

 i^eeds not winged. - * ; 



Flowers 4-merou8 . ..-.!• AsctrxtH. ' . 



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 How, 4-merous, iS«pa& leafy, the 2 outer largest. Stamens shg^tly^^" 

 or free. Ovary 1 -celled. Capsule 2-4-valved, dehiscing at the pla<^^"^^^^^^ 



DiftTRiB. Except the endemic Indian species confined to N . Amer 

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