430 LY. HAMAMELiDEiE]. (0. B. Clarke.) lAltingia. 



Assam and Bhotan ; Griffith. Pegu and Mebgih, ^^r^.— Distrib. Java, Yunan. 



A tree 60-100 ft. high. Leaves 3-4^ in., glabrous on both surfaces, or with tufts 

 of hairs in the axils of the nerves beneath.— The only other species, A. chinenm, 

 differs in its thicker leaves, less acuminate, and much more shortly petioled. 



Order LVI. KAXiORAGES. (By 0. B. Clarke, F.L.S.) 



Herbs, either weak aquatics or small land plants. Leaves opposite or 

 whorled (or in the Indian species occasionally partly alternate) vfhen submersed 

 often pectinately pinnatifid ; stipules 0. Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, 

 sessile less often pedicelled, the whorls often simulating a spike ; hermaphrodite 

 or unisexual, always small. Calyx-lobes 4 or 0. Petals 4 epigynous or U. 

 Stamens 8, 4, or 1 epigynous in the hermaph. flowers. Ovary inferior, 4-, J- or 

 1-celled ; styles 4, 2 or 1, fimbriate or simple ; ovules 4, pendulous (or in 

 Hipparis 1). Fruit small dry or drupaceous, 4-2-1-celled, indehiscent or 

 separating into its carpels ; seeds 4 or more rarely 1. — Distrib. Specie? o , 

 many aquatic ; spread over the whole globe. 



Terrestrial. Flowers all sessile or subsessile. Stamens 8 • . 1. Haloragis. 



Terrestrial. Male flowers pedieeUed. Stamens 8 . . , . 2. Sebpicula. 



Aquatic- Stamen 1. Style 1. Ovule 1 3, Hippitbis. 



Aquatic. Stamens 8 or 4. Styles 4. Seeds 4 4. MTBioPHYixTnii, 



Aquatic or subaquatic. Stamen 1. Styles 2. Seeds 4 . . 5. Caxlitbichb. 



1. KAZiORAGZS, Forst. 



Branching wiry herhs. Leaves opposite, the upper sometimes alternate, tootn } 

 rigid. Flmvers minute, nearly sessile in the axil of bracts, spicate or ^^^^^^ 

 partially unisexual or hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube 4-8-ribbed •, lobes 4 e 

 persistent acute valvate. Petals 4 coriaceous, often wanting in the ? < . 

 mens 8 epigynous. Ovary 2- or 4-celled with 4 pendulous ovules ; ^^d™^ i 

 (in the females at least) sessile, feathery. Fruit a dry 2-4^celled 2^9®^^ 



nut ; but in the two Indian species by abortion 1-celled l"S®®*^^*^'"^F^^J-alia 

 Species 40 ; reaching from Japan and East Bengal to New Zealand ; Austra 

 being the centre of the genus ; one species found in Juan Fernandez. 



1. S. mlcrantha, Br. in Flinders Voy.il 550; glabrous, ^^^1^^ f^^l 

 Bcute denticulate, flowers in terminal often subpaniculate racemes. ^^^^' :i 

 Austral u. 482. H. tenella, Brongn. in Buperr. Voy. t. 68. Gonocarpus ui 

 cranthus, Thunb. Fl Jap. t. 15 ; BC. Prodr. iii. 06. Goniocarpus micranui , 

 Koen. ^ Si7n8 Ann. Bat. i. 546, t. 12. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 5000-7000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H. &• 71 Thomson. ?^^^^i Jya 

 ^000-10,000 ft., J. D, ff.— DisTBiB. From Sikkim and Japan across China ma ; 

 and Australia to New Zealand. ^ hortly 



A wiry branching herb, stems 4-16 in. Leaves J in., opposite, "^f^ pj^^^s 

 petioled ; upper sometimes alternate passing by degrees into the lower bracW. ^^^^ 

 veiy small; pedicels about ^^^ in. Petals thrice the triangular sepals. Jf^ 

 ^ in. long, shining, glabrous with 8 ribs, 1-celled, 1 -seeded. 



^ 2. B. tetragryna, Hooh.f. Fl. New Zealand^ i. 62 ; l^a^sUy thoug^^^^^^ 

 minutely scabrous, leaves lanceolate (ovate in the New Zealand form; ^^]^ 

 flowers in terminal often subnaniculate snikes. H. scabra. Benth. i'*- 







