Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 5 



(King's Coll. 10652); Penang: Telok Baliang (Curtis 1888). 

 Endemic. 



■i. Ottelia, Pers. ^ 



Submerged fresh-water herbs, steraless. Leaves crowded ovate 

 lanceolate oljlong or cordate. Flowers showy fugacious solitary in 

 a tubular bifid spatlie. Sepals 3 linear or oblong. Petals 3 larger 

 white or yellow ovate or orbicular. Stamens 6 to 15. Anthers erect. 

 Ovary oblong beaked. Styles linear bifid. Fruit oljlong 6-valved 

 enclosed in a spathe. Seeds numerous, testa pulpy. Species about 

 6 in the tropics of both hemispheres. 



0. ALisMOiDES, Pers., S3'n I. 400. Leaves ovate or ovate cordate, 

 acute thin undulate petiolate, blade 6 inches long or less 4 inches 

 wide, petiole three angled 6 inches long. Scapes 4 to 6 inches 

 long. Spathe green Avinged undulate narrow or ovate an inch or 

 more long. Perianth tube a little longer. Sepals lanceolate obtuse 

 ^ inch long. Petals broadly ovate unguiculate fugacious, white 

 often tinted with pink or violet an inch long. Stamens 6 to 10, an- 

 thers linear. Ovary oblong. Fruit linear oblong subgiobose 6- 

 grooved. Seeds elliptic light brown very small. Eich. in Mem. 

 Instit. Fr. 1811, II. t. 7, Benth. Fl. Austral. YI. 257, Hook. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. V. 662. 0. indica, Dalz and Gibs. Bombay Flora 278. Dama" 

 sonium indicum, Willd. Sp. pi. II. 276, Boxb. Fl. Ind. II, 216, Cor. 

 pi. II. 45, t. 185, Bot. Mag. t. 1201. Stratiotes aUsmoides, Linn. Sp. 

 pi. 535. 



In ponds and ditches. 



Perak: Kinta at Tambun (Piidley 7090), Larut (King's Col- 

 lector 4073) 5538; Penang: Telok Kumbar (Curtis 851); Province 

 Wellesley; Krian (Pidley) ; Selangor: Pudoh (Goodenough) ; Lan- 

 kawi: Kwah (Curtis). Distrib. Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia. 



5. Enhalus, Richard. 



A submerged marine herb with a stout crinite rootstock. Leaves 

 long strap-shaped in twos and threes in a basal sheath. Flowers 

 unisexual. Male very small white numerous in a two leaved spathe. 

 Sepals and petals elliptic or ovate. Stamens 3 filaments very short, 

 anthers broad oblong. Female flower much larger, solitary in a 

 large two leaved spathe. Sepals oblong. Petals longer linear. 

 Ovary ovoid Avith 6 bristly ridges, long-beaked 6 celled. Styles 6 

 bipartite arms slender, ovules few anatropous. Fruit globose ovoid 

 beaked witli 6 hairy ridges. Seeds few large cone-shaped soft green. 



Species one, Madagascar, Ceylon, and Malay seas to Australia. 



