CR 
so slender as the preceding apogis, Stem leaves sessile, orbicular, VII ^^ — 
296 L. LYTHRARIEJX. [A mmannia, 
lian gg nearly as long as the calyx-teeth in some Indian ones. Sta- 
inens 5?), inserted near the base of the calyx and not exceeding it. 
Ovary 1- celled or more or less divided into 3 by very thin evanescent parti- 
tions. Style short. + Capsule 3-valved.—Rotala verticillaris, Linn. Mant. 
195; DC. Prod. iii. 76; Wight, Ic. t. 260; Rotala apetala, F. Muell. 
Fragm. i iii. 108. 
tralia. Beds of streams periodically inundated, Sturt's Creek, F. Muelle. 
US onerum over "a India and the fuum go. 
b. FL Ind. i. 497. Annual or perm à hen 
obtuse, the larger ones 3 in. loug, but usually not above 4 in., the flora a? 
always exceeding the flowers. Flowers solitary in the axils, sessile or phe : 
so. Calyx sc arcely above 3 line — with 5 or rarely 4 short lobes, | 
without accessory teeth. Petals small or none. eames 5, or - | 
times 4 or 3 inserted near the be ud the calyx and ze SECH its lo 
Capsule opening in 3 or rarely 4 valves.—DC. Prod. . 19; W. pen 
Prod. 305, with the gare Gd Blume, Mus. Bot. i ii. t. 46 
erch Wight, Ie. 
Queensland. See river, p Aen rowa ; water-holes, Mc Bay, C. Stuart 
Var. decussatá. Smaller and m nehed. Petals usually none.—Rotala doc | 
M: F rod. iii. 76 ; rtegioides ge Soland, i — Banks ; “Eutelia ammam dë 
erb. ; SE ko illecebrvides, Arn Wight, C n. 23 cin HE 
tralia. ands p the Gulf of aen Brown ; Victoria river, 
ed 
SE Port Essin ae Armstrong. PA * 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; E. coast, Banks and Solan 
Erect ot 
3. A. diandra, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 108 (under Ameletia). we 
creeping at the Lead. branched or nearly simple, not exceeding 6 in. 
tuse, cordate at the base, 2 to 3 lines dia meter, the floral ones scarcely 
2 
the tube, without accessory teeth, Petals porfa Stamens ud 2. 
inserted below the middle of the een Ovary 1-celled or impe 
celled. Capsule opening in 2 valve and Fite 
. Australia. Around the lagoons mà moist banks of the Upper T scarcely 
maurice rivers, F. Mueller. "The specimens are all in fruit; in some the HT lines lougs 
1 line long and shorter than the oblong er in others the calyx is near imentay ` 
with a very much qe ter ~~ capsule. In I have pe either sm 
4 of 
ting into. A retuse Shien. Petals 4 small, white, ege Stamens 
