478 LVIII, LYTHRACEH (HIERN). [ Ammannia. 
Museum, the flowers are in several cases monstrous, in consequence of having been at- 
tacked by insects. 
This species occurs also in Natal. 
3. A. baccifera, Zinn. Sp. 175. Glabrous annual with erect stem 
and spreading tetragonal branches, 2-14 in. high, reddish at base. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuate to base, subsessile, usually patent, 
often shining, $—21 in. long. Cymes 3~—7-flowered, pedicelled, with 
small bracteoles at base of pedicels similar to the leaves. Calyx with 
4 deltoid lobes, 8-veined ; cornua small. Petals 4, small, caducous or 
wanting. Stamens 4, inserted below the middle of the calyx-tube, 
about equalling the calyx. Ovary sessile, enclosed in calyx-tube; 
style very short. Capsule globular, exceeding the calyx, dehiscing 
transversely about the middle, 1- or imperfectly 2-celled; placenta 
compressed. Rarely a flower is pentamerous.—A. vesicatoria, Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. i. 426. 4. indica, Lam. Illust. n. 1555. A. attenuata, Hochst. 
The fresh leaves are used in the East Indies to raise blisters. Grows in marshy 
places. 
Nile Land. Khartoum, Dr. Bromfield! between Dongola and Korti, Dr. Brom- 
field! banks of White Nile, Petherick ! Kordofan, Kotschy! Abyssinia, Schimper! 778. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Mossamedes, and Pungo Andongo, 2400-3800 ft. alt., 
Dr, Welwitsch ! 
Occurs also in India and Madagascar. 
4. A. salicifolia, Monti in Comment, Bonon. i. 112, cum tab. (1767). 
Glabrous annual, 4-18 in. high. Stem erect, terete at base, with long 
quadrangular spreading branches. Leaves lanceolate, narrowing 
genvy from above middle towards base, sessile, sometimes auricled at 
ase, not amplexicaul, opposite, patent at the flowering parts deflected 
at the. fruiting parts, 1-veined, 4-14 in. long. Flowers in axillary 
sessile cymes with very short pedicels, densely verticilled especially i 
fruit, 4-9 in each axil. Calyx with a short four-cornered spreading 
limb at top of a tube campanulate in flower and hemispherical in fruit ; 
lobes of calyx 4, deltoid, incurved in flower, usually with short patent 
cornua. Petals wanting or caducous. Stamens 4, not exceeding the 
calyx, arising from fear the base of its tube. Ovary when young ob- 
ovoid, with 4 external longitudinal lines; style very short. Capsule Ie 
celled. Seeds attached to a placenta which in middle of capsule is 
compressed horizontally in a peltate manner and at top and bottom con- 
sists of a central axis, somewhat triangular in outline, concave, very 
minutely punctate.—A. egyptiaca, Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 6. A. vertt- 
cillata, Lam. Illust. 1554, t. 77, f.3. A. glauca, Wall. Cat. 2100. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Ehrenberg ! Nubia, Dr. Bromfield! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Chr. Smith! Angol 400-3800 ft. alt. 
Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch! oe eS ee 
Grows by river banks and in marshes. Extends to India, and is naturalized in Italy. 
_ 5, A. urceolata, Hiern. An erect simple or branched annual, 4-8 
in. high. Branches spreading, quadrangular, hispidulous. Leaves 
linear, bluntish or acutish at apex, gently narrowing from middle to- 
