A lilJl'ISION OF THE ISDIAy SPECIES OF ROTALA. 709 



Habitat : Kollogal 2000' . . Coimbatore 



X .1905, Fischer, No. (560! 



Virarajoudra pot 



Hill . . Madras Pres . . 



T a n d i g u d i . 



Pulnoys . . „ „ 



Mt. Abu . . llajpiitana 



Clienab River . . Punjab 



N. W. Frontier. 

 N.W.Himalaya 

 Nepal 



W. Rauchi, 2,000'. Chota Nagpur. 

 Lodhwa, 2,000' . . „ „ 



Ranchi .... 



AVight ! 



X 1915,Fyson! 



Ill 1899, Herb. Pres. Coll. 



Madras, No. 2024 1 



X, 1916, Blatt. & Hall. No. 



^327—^33.5 ! 

 X, 1846, Herb. Calc! 

 Deaue ! 

 Grittith ! 



Scully, No. 357 ! 

 1821, Wallich, 2 10 7! 

 2107A ! 

 XI. 1880, Gamble, No. 8705 ! 

 X, 1883, Clarke. No. 34200 ! 

 IX, 1896, Mokim! 

 IX, 1873, Clarke. No. 20C32 ! 

 VIII, 1902, Herb. Calc. ! 

 XI, 1868, Herb. Calc.! 

 Herb. Calc. ! 

 1867, Kiirz! 

 X, 1866, Kurz ! 

 III. 1867, Kurz! 



Herb. Griffith, No. 

 2311 ! 

 X; 1915, Delbarman, No. 733! 

 Masters ! 



Wallich, No, 2102 ! 

 X, 1869, Kurz ! 



Distribution : Africa : Sudan ; Asia : Afghanistan, India to Australia. 



8. Itotala Fysonii spec. nov. — Stem reaching 10 cm., erect, stout, or 

 slender, quadrangular in the upper jjart, simple or branched. Branches 

 ascending, filiform, quadrangular. Leaves decussate, generally reddish in 

 colour, sessile, broadly ovate-cordate and half amplexicanl, reaching 4 x 

 3 mm., getting smaller upwards, acute, 1-nerved. 



Flowers present in most of the axils, solitary, sessile. Bracteoles 2, 

 subulate, whitish, not as long as calyx. Calyx a little more than 1 mm. 

 long, widely campanulate, scarious ; teeth 4, about as long as the tube, 

 acutely triangular. Cornua 4, subulate, diverging, a little longer than the 

 teeth. Petals 4, most minute. Stamens 4. Filaments inserted |- way 

 down the tube, but continuing inside the tube to its base, linear, flattened, 

 and with a red spot just above their insertion. Anthers included. Style 

 very short. 



Capsule red, included in the calyx-tube, 4-3-valved, generally the former, 

 red. Seeds ^ ellipsoidal, twice as long as broad, pale brown, one face flat. 

 one curved, very finely longitudinally striate. 



Habitat : Anamallay,alt. 2,000', Dec. 1916 (P. F. Fyson, No, 3292 ! in Herb. 

 Pres. Coll., Madras). Apparently rare and local. 



This species comes naar 7?. y>«ifa?2(/;«, but the habit is quite difi'erent. 

 Besides, the flowers are always 4-merous and the capsule generally 4-valved. 



9. Rotala Ritchiei,Kofi\m(i,'n\Ena,\. Bot. Jahrb. iv (1883) 386, Engl. 

 Pflanzenr, iv, 216 (1903) ^Q—Ammania Ritchiei, C, B. Clarke in Hook, f, Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. ii (1879) 566; Cooke Fl. Bomb. Pres. i (1903) 508. 



