338 HALORAGEA. Hatoraeis, 
dissepiments, although the four pendulous ovules may easily be discovered : when 
the ovary is pretty far advanced into the state of fruit, three abortive and one fertile 
ovule may still be observed, but without any conspicuous dissepiments. Can the 
ovary be only l-celled ? 
1044. (1) S. brevipes (W. & A.:) nearly quite glabrous : leaves opposite, 
cuneate-oval, toothed towards the apex : male flowers 8-androus, on glabrous 
pedicels about the length of the leaves.— Wight! cat. n. 1090.—8Serpicula, 
Wall.! L. n. 7488. Neelgherries. ^ 
Had Bory and De Candolle not placed S. veronicefolia in the genus while 
described as having only four stamens, we should have had no hesitation in 
uniting our plant to it.—This genus must not be confounded with the other 
Serpicula in Wallich's List, n. 5048, although, probably from inadvertency, 
they have been considered the same by Dr Royle, and referred by him to the 
same natural order (Wall. L. p. 261). 
1045. (2) S. hirsuta (W. & A.:) stems hirsute: leaves opposite cuneate- 
oblong or oval, toothed towards the apex, slightly hairy particularly on the 
under side: male flowers 8-androus, on hairy pedicels twice the length of 
the leaves.—z ; leaves oval, slightly cuneate at the base.— Wight! cat. n. 1091. 
—f ; leaves narrow-oblong, cuneate and tapering towards the base.— Wight! 
cat. n. 1092.— —Neelgherries. 
II. HALORAGIS. Forst.—Goniocarpus. Thunb.—Cercodia. Murr. ; 
Lam. ill. t. 319. 
Calyx-tube cohering with the ovary: limb 4-partite. Petals 4, alternate 
with the lobes of the calyx. Stamens 4-8. Stigmata 2-4, sessile and pap- 
pulose, or pencil-shaped at the extremity of short styles. Fruit nut-like, 
2-4-celled and 2-4-seeded, or from abortion 1-celled and 1-seeded.—Herba- 
ceous or shrubby plants. Leaves opposite or alternate, glabrous or scabrous, 
toothed or quite entire. Flowers usually nearly sessile in the axils of the 
upper leaves, rarely racemose, bisexual or rarely moncecious. 
i i is genus from the 
er ith ic ten pers of apa ential Do Coll it may 
be distinguished by the bisexual flowers; and even that species has pencil-shape 
stigmas and sessile male flowers, very different from Serpicula. 
1046. (1) H. oligantha (W. & A.:) herbaceous ?, glabrous, procumbent: 
leaves alternate, narrow-linear, tapering at both ends, serrated towards the 
apex : flowers minute, axillary, solitary, sessile: calyx-tube marked with four 
projecting angles : petals linear-lanceolate, obtuse, much longer than the seg 
ments of the calyx: stamens 4: stigmas 4, large, sessile, pappulose: DU 
muricated, 1-celled, 1-seeded.— Wight! cat. n. 1093.——Neelgherries. 
III. MYRIOPHYLLUM. Vaill; Linn.; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 68; Lam. ill. 
t. 775. 
Flowers monecious or bisexual, rarely diœcious.—MALE. Calyx EA 
tite. Petals 4, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, caducous. Stamens r 
6, or 8.—Fzx. Calyx cohering with the ovary; limb 4-lobed. Petals d 
smaller than in the male, very eaducous, often inconspicuous OF wanting. 
Stamens when present without anthers. Ovary 4-celled. Styles n 
Stigmas linear-oblong, compressed, pappulose on the inner surface. uk 
4-lobed, consisting of 4 compressed or subglobose carpels cohering br H 
inner angles and inclosed in and closely attached to the slightly 
ealyx-tube: each carpel nut-like, indehiscent, 1-seeded.—BisEx. Same as 
