Blyza.] CXLVI. HYDROCHARIDER. (J. D. Hooker.) 661 
Roxburgh does not describe or figure the seeds, and I have therefore described 
these from the common Bengal form, which I assume is the plant he had under his 
eye. 
bisexual 
2. B. echinosperma, Hook. f.; leaves 3-4 ft., flowers. , 
stamens 3, capsule 2-3 by in. terete, seeds 16 10., spinescent with p long 
filiform tail at each end. Hydrotrophus echinospermus, Clarke in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Bot. xiv. 8, t. 1. 
BENGAL, Clarke. CANARA, Stocks, Talbot, &c. 
The seed including the tails is sometimes 3 in. long. 
5, B. Grifithii, Planch. in Herb. Hook.; leaves 4 in- ft, scape 
compressed, flowers bisexual, stamens 9, capsules linear narrow, 
z, in. faintly tubercled, tails 0. ? Saivala vallisnerioides, Wall. Cat. 5047. 
Sáivála, Jones in As. Research. iv. 275. 
BENGAL, CHITTAGONG., to MALACCA.— DISTRIB. Sumatra. . 
Sir W. Jones describes the flowers of Sáivála as hermaphrodite, the d Meri 
and the seeds as muricate. Parish sends fine specimens from M d ab myself 
and stamens as above, but no seeds. The Chittagong specimens gathere erra 
are flowerless ; the leaves are 4—5 in. and capsules 2 in. on short pu ng scapes ; 
alacca specimens are not in flower, but have capsules 2-2} in. on nl have leaves 
the leaves are 2 ft, long. Mergui specimens from Griffith in fruit only, 
intermediate between those of the Malacca and Chittagong forms. 
4. B. oryzetorum, Hook. f.; leaves 4-6 in., flowers 2-sexual, Stamens 
3, capsule 1-13 by 3 in., scape very short, seeds j in. Ta M uem Voy. 
ils 0 or very short. Diplosiphon oryzetorum, Dene. in quem. 
Bot. 167, t. 167. 
> dant.— 
BANDA, Edgeworth, KASHMIR, Jacquemont. Kuasta Mrs. abun 
Distrrs. ? Hongkong. 
a 
i bisexual, stamens 
5. B. ceylanica, Hook. >; leaves 6 in.-2 ft., flowers s 
2 capsule 12 by à in. scape A long, seeds obscurely tubercled apiculate a 
both ends, B, octandra, Planch. in Thw. Enum. 382. 
CEYLON, Walker Thwaites. is uni 
ery hear the Madagascar B, Aubertii, Rich., which is unisexual. 
** Leaves narrowed from below the middle to the base. 
in. li - late, capsules 
6. B. lancifolia Hook. f. ; leaves 4-6 in. linear-lanceolate, ol 
1-2 in. slender, scape as long? Hower bisexual, stamens 3, seeds sparsely 
tubercled, tail 0 or very short. 
Knasta Hırs, alt. 5000 ft., at Myrung and Nunklow, Clarke. 1l. and very 
The Myrung specimens have large seeds 4s in. long with no tails at all, A 
sled seeds 
Obscure tubercles; the Nunklow ones have much smaller and more tuberc 
with short tails, 
E . : . late serrulate, 
7. B. Talboti, Mo k. f.; leaves 4-6 in. linear-lanceo . 
flowers unisexual, capsules f in. by } in. seeds very strongly echinate 
with a short tail at each end. 
Norra Canara, Talbot, 
Ve seen only fem, fl 
