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572 BALANOPHOREE (Harv.) [Myriophyllum. 
Il. SERPICULA, L. 
Flowers unisexual. Male: calyx minute, 4-toothed. Petals 4, 
oblong, concave. Stamens 4, alternate with the petals, or 8. Female : 
calyx-tube 4-angled, 8-ribbed ; limb 4-toothed. Petals and Stamens 
none. Stigmata 4, long and feathery. Ovary 1-celled ; ovules 4, 
pendulous. wit 8-ribbed, fleshy, with a bony endocarp, 1-seeded. 
DC. Prod. 3, p. 65. Endl. Gen. 6136. ; 
Small, herbaceous, creeping plants, natives of warm countries. Leaves alternate 
or opposite, entire or toothed, sessile. Flowers axillary ; the males on slender 
pedicels, the female subsessile. Name from serpo, to creep. 
1. §. repens (Linn. Mant. 124); leaves alternate or the lower ones 
opposite, linear-lanceolate or oval, entire or 2—3-toothed, scabrous at 
the margin ;. male flowers tetrandrous. DC. Prod. 3, p.64. S. rubicunda, 
Burch. DC. 1.c. E. & Z.1 1765, 1766, 
Has. In moist places throughout the colony, common. (Herb. D. Sd. &c.) 
Very variable in size, in pubescence, and in the shape and toothing of the leaves. 
Stems many from the crown, subsimple, decumbent, rooting on the under side, 
glabrous or hairy. Leaves 4—7 lines long, 1-3 lines wide, entire or toothed, opposite 
and alternate on the same branch. 
Ill, MYRIOPHYLLUM, L. 
Flowers unisexual, rarely bisexual. Male : calyx 4-parted. Petals 
4, ovate, caducous. Stamens 4-6-8. Female: calyxz-limb 4-parted. 
Petals none, or very small and caducous, Stamens abortive or none. 
Ovary 4-celled ; stigmata 4, long, compressed, papulose on the inner 
surface. Fruit 4-lobed, of 4 nut-like, indehiscent carpels. DC. Prod. 
3, p- 69. Endl. Gen. 6135. 
Herbaceous water plants, natives of all climates. Leaves opposite or whorled, the 
submerged Ones pectinato-pinnate. Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile; sometimes in 
the axils of depauperated foral leaves, and then forming leafy spikes. Name from 
Hupwos, a thousand, and pvAdov, a leaf. 
1. M. spicatum (Linn. Spec. 1409) ; leaves whorled, pectinate, the 
lobes 0 posite, capillary ; flowers in an interrupted, terminal spike, the 
subten bracts shorter than the flowers. DO.Lc. E.&Z.! 1767. 
Drege, 8805. E. Bot. t.83. Fl. Dan. t. 681. 
Has. In the Zwartkopsri E. & Z. iri . 
(Herb. Sd. D. &e.) psriver, L. dé Z./ Drege! Kraairiver and the Gariep, Drege! 
Stems submerged, erect. Leaves 4stichous, 1 inch long, multipartite ; lobes 
like. Spikes 2 inches long ; the whorls of flowers 8 lines apart bracts 
very small. A common plant in urope and North America. 
OrpDER LXXI. BALANOPHOREA, Rich. 
ee TW. Hasyn), 
Flowers unisexual, in dense heads, spikes or panicles, Male flower : 
Sia Livia Pirie in fae or ines Stamens 1~3 oppo- 
Segments of the perianth. Female flower : pervanth epigynou 
3-lobed, or obsolete. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; ovules mies, pends. 
lous. Styles filiform, 1 or 2, or none, Fruit dry or succulent, inde- 
