JACK’S MALAYAN PLANTS. 371 
HALORAGIS DISTICHA. W.J. 
Foliis alternis distichis obliquis integris, floribus axillari- 
bus subsolitariis, petalis tridentatis. 
Kayo Kanchil. Malay. : 
This species is not unfrequent in Sumatra, at Singapore 
and other parts of the Malay Archipelago. 
A shrub, with ferruginous pilose branches. Leaves alter- 
nate, distichous, arranged in two series, one of large leaves 
and another of very small ones which resemble stipule being 
regularly placed a little below the insertion of the large ones 
so as to lie over their bases; the large leaves are subsessile, 
rhomboid-oblong, inszequilateral, acute, entire, nearly smooth 
above, pilose with short appressed hairs beneath, from an 
inch to an inch and a half long; the small leaves are similar 
in shape but more acute and little more than a quarter of an 
inch long, they are arranged on the anterior side of the 
branch and are closely appressed to it so as to resemble 
stipules. Flowers axillary, generally solitary, subsessile. 
Calyx four-leaved, persistent. Petals four, shorter than the 
calyx, trifid. Stamina eight, as long as the petals; anthers 
two-celled. Ovary inferior, four-sided, ferruginous, four- 
celled, tetrasporous. Styles four, equal to the stamina. 
Stigmas simple. Drupe oblong-ovate, red, containing a nut 
with eight longitudinal furrows, and containing a single seed. 
Seed oblong-oval ; embryo central in an ample albumen. 
Oss. The general habit of this species is very peculiar, 
and has much the character of Australasian vegetation, to 
which country the genus principally belongs. 
ELODEA.  Adanson. 
This Genus, which has been revived by a late author on 
American Botany, appears to be abundantly distinguished 
from Hypericum, and to form a good natural division. It is 
principally characterized by having the stamina united into 
three phalanges, which alternate with an equal number of . 
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