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JFruit glabrous. 



Fruit globose Bracts ........... . . 34.* Coriakdru3i. 



i?rmt narrowly oblong. Bracts slender, simple . , . . . 34.** Cumiktm, 



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Ft^it hirsvte or setose. 



Bracts pinnate. Seed plane on the inner face ...... 35. Dauctjs. 



^racts linear, or 0. Seed gi-ooved on the inner face .... 36. Caucaxis. 



-oracts Imear-lanceolate, membranous 37. Psammogeton. 



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Prostmte herbs, rooting at the nodes. Leaves (in the Indian species) cordate 

 or hastate^ not peltate, round or 6-9-gonal, suhentire or palmately lobed, pal- 

 mate-nerved, long-petioled ; stipules small, scarious. Umbels (in the Indian 

 species) simple, small; bracts small or 0; flowers white, sometimes uni- 

 sexual. CalyX'teeth or minute. Petals entire, valvate or imbricate. Fi-uit 

 ^terally compressed, commissure narrow ; carpels laterally compressed or sub- 

 pentagonal ; lateral j)rimary ridges concealed within the commissure, or digtant 

 Jfierefrom and prominent ; vitt^ 0, or most slender, obscure ; carpophore 0. 

 ^eed laterally compressed. — Distrib. Species 70 ; in wet places in tropical and 

 T^Qiperate regions, more numerous in the Southern Hemisphere. 



^ Section X, Eu-Kydrpcotyle. Petals acute, valvate. Secondary ridges 



^* Pericarp not thickened. 



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1. K. javanica, Thunb, Dksei^t. ii. 415, t. 3; leaves 1-3 in. diam. cor- 

 <iate crenate, subentire or lobed to the middle, petiole laxly pubescent, peduncles 

 fong upper often clustered, fruit much compressed not pentagonal. BC. Prodr. 

 IV. 67 ; Miq. FL Ind. ]$at, i. pt. i. 734 ; Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 

 nr -^- i^^V^da, Bon Prodr. 183. H. nepalensis, ITooL Exot. Fl. t. 30; 

 J^«. Cat. 561 ; BC. I e. 65 ; Miq. I c. 735. H. zeyknica, BC. L c. 67 ; W. 4* 

 -Jr -Prorfr. 366 ; Miq. I, c. 734. H. hirsuta, Blume Bijd. 884. H. polyoephala, 

 JJ.' ^ A. Prodr. 366; TViffht Ic. t 1003. H. hirta, P. Mr. Var. acvtUoba, F. 

 ^uell ; Jienth. FL Austral iii. 340. H. Heyneana, Wall Cat. 563. II. stri^ 

 gosa, Ham. in Wall Cat. 7219. 



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Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt, 2000-8000 ft. ; Khasia Mrs., alt. 



^000-6000 ft., common. Mts. of Malabab aud Ckylok, common. Pegu and Te- 



^AssERiM, alt. 2000-5000 ft.— Distbih. Malaya to the Philippines and Australia, 



Mozambique. 



I I^^ves 1-3 in. diam., pubescent or glabrous. Pedmicles f-2 in., lower solitaiy, 

 ear-opposed. Umbels many-flowered ; bracts minute lanceolate scales among 



J«^. pedicels ; pedicels 0-| in., glabrous. Fruit ^^ in., orbicular or subquadrate, 

 eticulate-rugose or smooth (sometimes deformed, enlarged, obovoid, corky); 



^teral primary ridges commissural, intermediate faint or 0; pericarp hard, thin.— 



.tsf"^^*. exceedingly uniform even in minute characters from the Himalaya to Ceylon. 



^Unberg describes H.javanica as glabrous, but all the specimens so named from Java 



^ve at least the petioles and peduncles pubescent and are identical with the Indian. 



, ' ^irsuta, Blume, is a form -w-ith fulvous pubescence abundant in the Eastern Hima- 



S' polyoephala, Wight' 111. t. 117, fig. h represents the carpels as subpenta- 

 iid little compressed laterally, and perhaps was taken from H. rotundi/olia. 



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