pz- T,^. V : . 



MyriopJiyllum.'] lvi. haloragb^. (C. B, Clarke.) 



433 



also occur. Stamens always 4, but the number is probably not constant. Stigmas 

 pink, much fimbriate. i^Vw/^ooked down upon appears stellate. 



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2. 



Indicum, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 407 ; spikes in fruit suhterminal 



leaves ^-^ in. narrow-lanceolate or linear ^ -rr— - 



fruit scarce ^^ in. long but much broader, carpels 4 rounded on the back bui 

 separated by wide furrows tubercled and puberulous or finally quite smooth and 

 glabrous. Wall. Cat 6338 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 68 ; W, ^ A. Prodr. 339 ; Mig, Fl 

 Ird. Bat. i. pt. i. 634. M. tetrandrum, Roxb. Fl Ind. i. 461 ; Griff, NotuL iv. 

 886 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 339 ; Miq. I c. 634. [M. indicum, Wight III. t. 102 to be 



<iUogether excluded.^ 



Assam and Bengal, in the jheels and canals, common, Coromanbel coast and 

 Cktlok. 



' . Upper whorls of male flowers, lower of female, intermediate often hermaphrodite. 



otamens 4. Stig?)ias green, little fimbriate. Fruit looked down upon appears 

 stellate. 



There is a variety with longer floral leaves, so that the inflorescence is hardly 

 terminal, and with the leaves not quite opposite ; but the fruit noway approaches 

 that of M. intermedium. 



I 



,3. Bf. verticillatum, Linn.-^ Boiss. Fl Orient, ii. 755; whorls of fruit 

 JJ^iUary, floral leaves J-1^ in. pectinate, segments linear, fruit about as long as 

 oroad not deeply furrowed or tuberculat^. DC. Prodr. iii. 68; Engl Bot. 



Hort 



Kashmie, Falconer, Jacgueinont, Thomson (all barren). Ponds above Shapiyon, 

 «t. 7000 ft. ; C. B. ClarJte.—DiSTmB. Persia, Dahuria, North Asia, Europe, North 



America 



r ^^i^ subquadrate. backs of the carpels rounded, furrows between them broad 



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Prodr 



, 4- Bt. splcatum, Linn.-, DC, 



wacts oblong entire shorter than the expanded petals, fruit ^ in. ovoid, back 

 ^e carpels broad flattened furrows very narrow soon becoming deep, car 

 ^\0T less tubercled on the back. Fngl Bot. t. 83 ; Gaertn, Fruct. t. 

 ^^'. Dan. iv. t. 681 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, ii. 755. 



Ka 



JIASHMIR 



1000 ft. along the northern boundary of the 



North 



__ 5000 ft,— DisTBiB. Cabul, cold and temperate 

 - -cuem Hemisphere. ' , , . 



W °^°^'^' «^en from above appears round, the valleys between the carpels being 



^narrow to be noticed till closely examined. The fruit of the Indian examples is 

 som J*^®'' ^^^^ *^'^<it of the European, the backs of the carpels being very flat 

 tn^- , ' ^°^^J and thickened ; called M. spicatum Linn. var. muricatum by Maxi- 

 ■"owicz (Diagn^ PL xr. 183) who quotes correctly Griff. No. 2442 (Kew Distnb.). 



M. 



■ f- %. intermedium, DC. Prodr. iii. 69 ; fruit axillary, floral leaves |-1 

 • ^J^^S alternate solitary or 2-3-nate linear and entire to lanceolate and incise- 

 mS ' . "^^ ^^^' smaU hardly ,\ in. lon<r but less broad, carpels rounded and 

 i S .'^^'itely scabrous on their backs, furrows shallow. Mtq. Fl.Ind. Bat. 

 vafl^f V • ^^- indicum, Wiaht III. t. 102, the plant onhj, not the fruit. 

 j^atolimn^ Rook. Ic. Fl. t. 280. M. lineare, Heyne in Herb. Rottl. Ilalo- 

 ■^ohgantha, W. Sf A. Prodr. 338; Wight Ic. 1061 not of Am. 



Ctttuf^HiRi Mrs., alt. 7000 ft. ; HohencKJcer No. 1563, Gardner, Schmidt Wight. 

 kxM^^' -^EccAN PmmsuiA, Bottler. Mayaburam, -Sir T. Admn.- ^— Ttr.,i.,,« 

 ™. New Zealand, South America. 



DisTRiB. Malaya, 



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