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W.SrA. Prodr. 305. A. debilis, Ait. in Jlerb. Zoll. ^ Mor. Rotala Rox- 

 Whiana, Wight Ic. t. 260 ; Wall. Cat. 2105. Tritheca pentandra, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 614. Winterlia uliginosa, Spreng. Syst. i. 788. Sellowia 

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^' Throughout Tropical India, in moist places, very common. — Distrib. China, Ma- 

 ^ laja: and (including the varieties below enumerated) Australia and Tropical Africa, 

 Stems 6-12 in., often with many opposite branches divergent at right angles and 

 covered with flowers. Cauline Zeai'^5 usually 1 in., upper floral leaves becoming brac- 

 tiform, oblong, base bi'oader. Flowers often approximate, never in distinct spikes ; 

 bracteoles subulate as long as the calyx. Calyx-teeth 5, lanceolate, very acuminate ; 

 accessory teeth 5, subulate, often as long as the primary teeth. Petals 5, narrow- 

 ODovate, small or 0. Capsule spherical or globuse-depressed. Seeds black, hemi- 

 spheric, excavated on the plane face. 



'_ Var. illecebroides, Arn. in Herb. Wight; smaller, cauline leaves ^ in. A. nana, 

 Wall Cat, partly not Eoxb, nor Eottl Kotala ? decussata, DC. Prodr, iii. 76; Hierii 

 tn Oliv. FL Trap. Afr. ii. 467. . 



^ ^ A^. fimbriata^ Wight Ic. t. 217 (sp-); cauline leaves longer narrower often cor 

 ^ate at the base, petals larger sometimes flmbriate. A. Heyneana, Wall Cat, 2104. 

 ^A. hexandra, Wall, Cat. 2103.- 

 exactly A, fimbriata, Wight. 



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 (-opsule circuiasciss or burstiug irregularly. 



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?S?3 ^PsiJe globose. Balz. ^' Gibs. Boinh. FL 97 ; ._. - 



fily pt. li. 85. A. vesicatoria, Roxh. FL Ind. i. 426 ; DC. Pi'odr, iii. 78 ; XT. 

 ^ -4. Prodr. 305; WaU. Cat. 2098, partly. A. indica, Laink.] DC. Lc. 77 i 

 ^- ^ A. Prodr. 305 ; WalL Cat. 2099 ; Bhtme L c. t. 46. A. debilis, Ait. 

 ^^^'Kew, ed. 1, i. 163. A. verticillata, Boiss. FL Orient ii. 743, 7iot of Link. 

 ijapalocarpuni vesicatorium and H. indicum, Miq. FL Ind, Bat. l pt. i. 618. 

 K^ptotheca apetala, Blume Bijd. 1128 : DC. L c. 76, 



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AT 1 ^^^^'^^^^^ Tropical India, in moist places, very common. — Distrib. Afghanistan. 

 -Malaya. China. Australia. Tropical Africa. 



■• Glabrous, erect, 6-8 in. sometimes 2 ft. Lower leaves and branches usually oppo- 

 ^l cauline leaves 1-2^ in., usually narrow but obtuse. Calyx-tube hemispherical; 

 ^^|i 4, broad, triangular, accessory folds or teeth small. Petals usually 0, or 

 J^hh S^P^^^^ depressed, imperfectly circumsciss above the middle. Seeds black, 

 ^^hemispheric, excavated on the plane face. , 



?2. A. sallcifolia, Monti ex Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 132; glabrous, leaves 

 ^ssile lanceolate rounded at the base, jflowera densely clustered in the axils, 

 ^sule p:lobose denrftaaftd not covftred bv the calvx-teeth. Dalz. ^ Gibs, Bomb. 



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t '7^ ■ • ^' egyptiaca, Willd. Ilort. BeroL t. 6. A. verticilkta, Lamk. III. 

 y^; f. 3, not of Wight ; DC. Prodr, ui. 79. A. glauca, WalL Cat. 2100 ; 

 ^' ^ A. Prodr. 306. A. densiflora, Mj. in Herb. Hohenack. No. 770. 



j^ Punjab; Edgeworth, T. Thomson. Kttmaon, alt. 4000 ft.; Strachey ^Winter- 

 ^^lotn, Behak; J. D. H. East Bengal; Griffith, Conoan; Stocks, RUchie. 



pf^I^fiNiNsuLA ; Wight ^?>l; Perottet.^JhsTKiB. Tropical Africa. 

 feawT '^' erect, sometimes 2 ft. high, leaves and branches opposite. Cauline 



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