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- F^Qm the Lase of the Eastern Himalaya to Ceylon and Bitbma; con^mon. 

 (No example from Noirth-West Jndia, the Punjab or Scinde.)— Distrib. Tropical Africa 

 mi Australia. ' 



Stem branching, diffuse, leafy. Leaves j-1 in., usually whorled, spathulate lan- 

 c^Iate or elliptic ; petiole 0-^ in. Pedicels i-J in. Sepah ^4 in., oblong, margins 

 Often membranous. Stamens 5-10. Stigmas 3, minute. Capsule ellipsoid, a little 

 shorter than the sepals. Seeds many, covered with raised tubercular points, the 

 appendage sometimes comprises a second, yet more minute, bristle. 



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I stricta, Linn, ; DC. Pt'odr. i. 391 ; glabroua, stems muclv 

 ©ranched leafy, seeds covered with raised tubercular points. Wall. Ctd. 649 ; 

 W. Sf A. Pi^odr, 44; Dalz, ^ Gibs, Bomh. Fl, 16; Kurz in Jmm. As, Soc, 

 1877, pt. ii. 111. M. triphylla. Lour. FL Cochinc. 79] I)C. Prodr. i. 392; 

 ^oxb.^ Sort, Beng. 9, FL Ind. i. 360 ; TFalL Cat. 651 ; IT. ^' A. Prodr. 44. 

 •M. Linldi, Seringe in DC. Lc. M. pentaphylla, Linn.; DC. Prodr. L 391; 

 ^oxb. L c. ; WalL Cat. 650 ] W. 8f A. Prodr. 44 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. L c. Phar- 

 iiaceum strictuna, triphyUum and pentaphyllum, Spreng. Syst^ i. 949. — Rheede 

 ffort. MaL x. t, 26. 



Throughout India and Ceylon, very common. — Bisthib. Eastward to Malacca, 

 China. Japan, Fiji. 



' Often a foot high. Leaves |-1 J in., whorled or opposite, varying from lanceolate 

 *Wite to obovate obtuse, much narrowed %t the base ; petiole hence obscure. Cymes 

 compound, the branches sometimes racemed so that the inflorescence becomes like 

 watof itf. distwha. Sepals -y| in., elliptic or round. Stamens 3-6, filaments dilated. 

 °^yles 3, short, linear. Capsule as long as the sepals, globe*©, n^any-seeded, the. 

 ^alls thin. Seeds dark chestnut-coloured ; embryo curled into three-quarters of a 

 ^^niflete circle. - 



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. !• 91. Cerviana, Seringe in DC. Prodr. i. 392; glabrous, branched, cau- 

 ■j^e leaves linear-oblong, seeds reticulated without tubercular raised points. 

 Y^l' Gat. 7128 ; W. 8f A, Prodr. 44 : Boiss. FL Orient, i. 756. M. umbellata, 

 ^erir^ge L c. rharnaceum 



Cerviana 



La7nk. EL t. 214. 



From the Punjab to Ceymn, in the hotter drier parts of India ; not in bengal.— 

 -PiSTRiB. Asia, Africa to the Cape, Australia. 



V Stems 3-6 in., erect, usually several. Leaves J-| in., radical tufted spathulate or 

 ^Povate, cauline linear-oblong often 4-8 in a whorl, whence spring umbellately many 

 tranches. Pedu7icles trichotomous or umbellate-c}Tnose. Sepals ^^ in., elliptic or 

 ^"iid. Stamens 5. Styles very small. Capsule as long as the sepals, globose, 

 ^ny-seeded. Seeds pink-chestnut or yellowish, covered with slightly elevated 

 Dblong reticulations, bluntly ridged on the back ; embryo curled through less than a 

 •^icircle. * 



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Seringe in DC Prodr. i. 392 ; glabrc 

 seeds syiooth. WalL Cat. 052 ; W. 

 iceum distichum, Z*n«. Mant. 221. 



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S^e»w often 12-1 8. in. 



Leaves J-1 in., usually whorled, tapering almost to the 

 , , - ^ .-ever/-;, III cvmes, the branches often ultimately prolonged a« racemes. SepaU 

 H in., ovate. Stamens 5. Styles 3. short. Capsule as long as the sepals, globose 



^ shortly ellipsoid, many-seeded. 



Wuntly ridded on thp hack : embrvo curved through three-quarters 



!, snort, uapsme as long as luo bopais, giui>u»a 

 Seeds obscurely reticulated, shining chestnut. 



Lt's figure represents this plant as hairy: it is glabrous or sometimes microscopi 

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