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Annual glatrous herl)s growing in damp places ; "branclies often quadrangu- 

 lar. Leaves opposite and alternate, sometimes whorled, entire ; stipules 0, 

 Floxvers small, axillary, solitary and subsessile, or in small trichotomous cymes ; 

 bracteoles usually 2. Calyx campanulate or tubular-campanulate, 3-5-toothed, 

 often with minute interposed teeth of folds, Fetals 3-5 or 0, small, inserted 

 between the calyx-teeth. Stamens 2-8, inserted on the calyx-tube. Ovary 

 enclosed in the calyx-tube, 1-5-celled, the septa very thin often absorbed ; style 

 filiform or short, stigma capitate ; ovules very many, placentas axile. Capsule 

 membranous, globose or long-ellipsoid, enclosed in the calyx, 2-3-valyed, or 

 irregularly breaking up or circumsciss. Seeds many, often nearly covering the 

 placenta which is often ultimately free central, small, smooth, round on the 

 back, raphe on the inner face, ellipsoid or nearly hemispheric— Disxrib. 

 Species 30, in the tropics and warm temperate zones of the whole world. ^ . 



SuBGENTJS I. Slotala. Flotvers 



Capstde^ 2-4-valved. 



Calyx infi'uit campanulate. longe 



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^ 1. A. peploldes, Spreng. Syst. I 444 ; cauline leaves elliptic nerves fro- 



minent beneath, capsule 2-valved, seeds narrow-oblong subfalcate. Sozss. sj- 



Orient, ii. 742 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 84. A. nana, Boxb. ±L 



J«rf. i. 427, not of WaUich. A. repens, Rottl. ; DC Prodr. iii. 80. Ame etia 



indica, DC Prodr. iii. 76 ; Wall Cat. 2093 : W. Sc A. Prodr. 303 ; Blume 



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Wall. Cat. 2094. A. latifolia. Wall 



Peplis indica, Willd. Sp. PL ii. 244. • :'- 



IxDiA ; common, in rice fields &c. throughout the plains and in T^arm places 

 in the lower mountains.— Distkib. Malaya to the Philippines and Canton ; Cabui an 

 Persia. 



Stems decumbent ofteri rooting or erect, 3-12 in. high. Leaves opposite, larger on 

 the main stem, ^| in., elliptic, narrowed at the base, sometimes ''^^"^^^^ .|* • ^ .j^e 

 Flowers often approximate in numerous sessile axillary spikes, solitary, sessile '° 

 axils of reduced floral leaves; bracteoles 2, minute, lanceolate: or fowers soir^^ 

 times strictly axillary, distant. Calyx-tube long-campanulate, scarcely ^'^^^^[^^ 4 

 4, often pink, acute, triangular in fruit, accessory teeth obscure or 0. P^^^^ i\h\m 

 small. Capsule ellipsoid, longer than broad. Seeds pink, somewhat angular, nu 

 quite obscure. .. 



2. A. RitchletC^. Clarke-, cauline leaves elliptic nerves not promi- 

 nent beneath, capsule 4-valved, seeds nearly hemispheric. 



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Stems 6-12 in. rooting 



leaves opposite 



otewis D-ia in. rooting amongst floating weeds (Kitcnie;. x>ruvj~ ■.• jj^^ 

 cauline ^f in., elliptic, sessile. Flowers solitary, distant, lower distinctly Fo^^. ^^^ 

 Calyx long-campanukte, truncate; teeth 4, minute, hardly so '"S« ^*^^i^^.„d as 

 interjected ones. Tetah 4, minute, rose. CapsuU ellipsoid, longer than oroci , 



;alyx-tube^ Seed^ brown-yellow, elliptic, peltate 



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