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 Rotala, sp. Wall. Cat. 9059. R. (Mirkooa) myriophylloides, Wehc. ; Oliv. Fl. 

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Tavoy; Wallich, Moulmeik; Lobb, — ^Distrib, Java, Angola. 



Stems 8 in., weak, little divided, probably erect in the water. Leaves ^-J in., 

 about 8-12 in each whorl ; emersed leaves ^ in., acute or obtuse. Calyx without ac- 

 cessory teeth. Petals elliptic, rose-coloured, far exceeding the calyx-teeth. Capsule 

 not ripe in the Indian examples, dehiscing septicidally from the apex in the African. 

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A shrub. Leaves opposite, subsessile, entire, lanceolate, beneath whiter and 

 with black glandular dots. Flo2ve7*s in short panicled cymes on axillary pedun- 

 cles, rarely solitary, scarlet; pedicels 2-bracteate at their base. Calyx long- 

 tubular, slightly curved, mouth oblique ; teeth 6, short, with 6 minute accessory 

 teeth. Petals 6, small or 0, inserted at the top of the calyx-tube. Stamens 

 12, declinate^ inserted on the calyx-tube below its middle. O^^^ry at the bot- 

 tom of the calyx-tube, free, sessile, oblong, 2-celled ; style filiform, stigma 

 small ; ovules very many, placentas axile. Capsule ellipsoid, membranous, in- 

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W. fruticosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1871, pt. ii. 66 ; Far. FL i. 618. 

 tomentosa, -Ro.r5. Cor. PI. t. 31; Fl. Ind. ii. 233; DC. Prodr. iii. 92; Bot^ 

 i»fa^. t. 1906 ; Wall. Co^. 2110; W. Sf A. Prodr. 308; Blwne Mus "^ " 

 45 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 621 ; Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomb. FL 97. 

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G. micropetala, Ilochst. et Stead, in Herb. Schimp. 1906. Lythrum fruti- 

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Throughout India, common ; ascending to 5000 ft. ; but not seen in the alluvial 

 mud of Bengal.— DisTHiB. Beloochistan, Tropical Africa, Madagascar, China. 



A shrub with long spreading branches, brilliantly red with flowers in the not 

 season. Leaves 2-4 in., opposite or subopposite, usually rounded or cordate at tne 

 base (but one African form has leaves attenuate at the base) ; usually grey pubescent 

 beneath, sometimes quite glabrous. Calyx ^-i in., bright red. Petals scarcely longer 

 than the calyx-teeth. Seed (figured by Blume and by Beddome as densely covered oy 

 long papillse and stated by Kurz to be papillose-pilose) in every example at Kew 

 entirely glabrous not exhibiting at any period of its development the smallest trace 

 of a papilla.— This shrub is very uniform in character throughout India : ^he Atrican 

 examples vary much more. It is trimorphic after the manner described by Mr. vd, 

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