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The plant varies slightly, especially with regard to the number of 

 flowers in a cyme, the length of the cyme-branches and of the style.. 

 The different forms pass insensibly one into the other. 



It is an interesting fact that almost identical specimens have been 

 gathered in localities widely apart : China, India, Nubia, Transvaal, 

 Texas. Mexico. The African specimens have a slightly smaller 

 capsule and a comparatively longer style than the Indian ones. 



In India the species is confined to the driest and coldest regions, as 

 will be seen from the localities given below. 



Habitat: Rajputana : Dilvara on Mt. Abu, October 1916 ( Blatt. and 

 Hall. No. 3;:^37!), Uria on Mt. Abu. (Blatt. and Hall. No. 3338!), 

 Usrot on Mt. Abu ( Blatt. and Hall. No. 3339 !), Mt. Abu, (Blatt. 

 and Hall. No. 3340!). British Baluchistan: Khozdar, about 4100 

 ft., September 1917 (Hotson No. 3348 !). Afghanistan : Kurum 

 Valley (Aitchison !). Chitral : Near Drosh, 4-5000 ft. (Hamilton No. 

 17881 !).—N. W. Frontier, September 1907 (Dean !).— British Tibet 

 (Stoliczka!). — Kashmir: Baramula. 5000 ft., June 19U5 (Meebold 

 No. 390 !). — Gangetic Plain : Banks of Gumpti near Indalpur 

 (Duthie No. 4022!) — Punjab (Thomson !).^ — Bengal: Between Dingra 

 Ghat and Purneah, in ricefields, October 1868 (Kurz !) — Central 

 China: Prov. Hupeh (Henry No. 2754!), Hainan (Henry No. 83701). 

 —Persia (Aucher-p:ioy No. 4508!). 



Africa: Ivordofan : Arash-Cool, Oct, 1839 (Kotschy No. 178!), Trans- 

 vaal, May 1894 (Schlechter No. 4771 !). 



Distribution: Africa; Cape and Sudan-region, Nile delta: Asia: 

 Trans-Caucasus, Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, India, China. 

 Australia: Queensland. America: Louisiana, Texas, New-Mexico, 

 Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Extratrop. Brazil. 



:3. Ammania multijtora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I (1820) 447 ; DC. Prodr. Ill 

 (1828) 79 ; W. & A. Prodr. 305 ; Wall. Cat. 2101 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 II, 743; Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. Fl. (1861) 97 ; Kurz. in Journ. Asiat. 

 Soc. Beng. pt. II (1877) 85; Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. I (1880) 

 247 et IV (1883) 390, in Engl. Pflanzenr. IV, 216 (1903) 48; Duthie. 

 Fl. Upp. Ganget. Plain. I (1903) 351 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. Pres. 1 (1903) 

 ,509. — A. parvijlora DC. 1. c. 78. — A. forilmnda Gnill. et Perr. Fl. 

 Seneg. l{\S?>Q-o3).— Sujfrenia<UchotomaM\r\. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 (1855) 

 (516 — A. australasica F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Victoria I (1855) 

 41. — A. viadagascariensis Tul. in Ann. Sc. nat. ser. 4, VI (1856 ) 129. — 

 A.japonica Miq. Prolus. (1866-67) 149. 



Stem up to 65 cm. high, erect, slightly 4-winged, branches numerous, 

 sharply quadrangular. Leaves opposite, 4-25 mm. long, 0-75-3 mm. 

 broad, the lower ones (or rarely all) attenuate at the base, the rest 

 subauriculate, often persisting for a long time. 

 Dichasia 1-3-7, or rarely 15-20-flowered, peduncled ; central pedicel 

 2-6 mm. long ; bracteoles on the cyme-branches most minute, linear. 

 Calyx campanulate, 1-1"5 mm. long, semiglobose in fruit, teeth 4, 

 short, triangular. Petals small and caducous. Stamens 4, as long 

 as the calyx-lobes, or slightly longer. Style about as long as the 

 capsule. 

 Capsule 15 mm. in diameter, half-surrounded by the calyx-tube, pro- 

 truding from between the lobes. 

 Habitat: S.India: Mysore, 1-3000 feet, October 1908 (Meebold No. 

 10279 ! ) ; Coimbatore, KoUegal, 2,000 ft. (Fischer No. 659! ) ; Am- 

 battur in Chingulpet Dist., February 1915 (Fyson!); Madras, 

 March 1899 (Fyson!) ; Bombay Presidency : Sion on Bombay Island, 



