503 Lviii. lythracejE. 



KoNKAN : Mahvau, Woodrow ; road Poladpur to Wada, Kanitkar I, Woodrow \ 

 Deccan : Pancligani, Cooke\ S. M. Country : Belgaiiin, Ritchie, 1750!; Londa, 

 Woodrow. Kanaka : on the Killa naddi, Ixitchie, 1185 ! — Distrib. Tliroiigliout Tropical 

 India in moist places, common ; Ceylon, China, Malaya, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



6. Ammannia Ritchiei, C. B. Clarke, in Ilook.f. Fl. B. I. v. 2 (1879) 

 p. 500. Stem 0-12 in. long, 4-gonous, creeping and rooting. Leaves 

 opposite, the cauline g-| by y\-^ in., sessile, elliptic-oblong, rounded 

 at the apes, not conspicuously nerved. Flowers solitary in each axil ; 

 pedicels ^ in. long or less. Calyx jL in. long, tubular -campanulate ; 

 t«eth 4, minute, the accessory teeth rather larger than the priniary ones. 

 Petals 4, ovate or obovate, longer than the calyx-teeth, pale rose-colored. 

 Stamens 4, included. Style short. Capsule ellipsoid, included in the 

 calyx, 4-valved. Seeds ^-ellipsoid, brown. Woodr. in Jouni. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 638"— Flowers : Oct. 



Belgaum in rice-fields, Ritchie, 1184! A verj rare plant. 



7. Ammannia rotundifolia, Buvh.-llam. in D. Don, Prodr. Fl. 

 Isep. (1825) p. 220. Stems 4-gonous, creeping and rooting at the base, 

 then ascending, leafy, 4-6 in. long. Leaves ^-| in. in diam., opposite, 

 sessile or nearly so, orbicular or broadly obovate, strongly nerved beneath. 

 Inflorescence in peduncled cylindrie racemes (almost spikes), 1-8 (very 

 commonly 3) together, forming a kind of terminal thyrsus ; pedicels 

 very short, scai'cely more than ^L in. long ; flowers crowded towards 

 the apex of the raceme, often lax towards its base ; bracts cordate, orbi- 

 cular, acute, sessile, about -^-^ in. in diain., adnate to the pedicel by a 

 short claw ; bracteoles minute, linear-lanceolate, acute, scarious. Calyx 

 j'y in- long ; lobes more or less unequal, triangular, acute, almost 

 equalling the tube ; accessory teeth 0. Petals ^^ in. long, obovate- 

 spathulate, bright rose-colored. Capsule 4-valved, ellipsoid, slightly 

 longer than broad. Seeds brownish-yellow, ellipsoid. El. B. 1. v. 2, 

 p. 506 ; Woodr. in Jouni. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 638. Amehtia 

 rotundifolia, Wight, Icon. t. 258 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 96. — Flowers : Nov. 



KoNKAN : Sawantwari in rice-fields, Kuriitkar], li'oodrow I ; Rlalwan, Woodrow. 

 S. M. Country : Belgaum, Ritchie, 10t)i» I — Distkib. Throughout the plains of India 

 in damp localities ; China, Formosa. 



8. Ammannia octandra, Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) p. 127. Stem 

 6-36 in. high, erect, stiff, the upper part 4-gonous, the lower part sub- 

 terete and often woody ; branches numerous, sharply quadrangular. 

 Leaves sessile^ linear-lanceolate, tapering to an acute apex, subauriculate 

 at tlie base, those of the stem 1|-2| by y^-^V in., those of the branches 

 ■smaller. Flowers in short-peduncled usually 3-flowered cymes ; pe- 

 duncles scabrous ; pedicels short. Calyx ^-^ in. long, campanulate, 

 quadrangular, the angles winged and minutely serrulate, the faces 

 between the wings furnished with a distinct rib in the middle of each 

 face ; mouth nearly truncate or with 4 very short teeth ; accessory 

 teeth short, horn-like, spreading. Petals 4, broadly obovate, g-J- in. 

 long, irregularly crenulate, rose-colored, veined. Stamens 8, exserted ; 

 filaments dark-red. Capsule enclosed in the calyx and about equalling 

 it, globose-ellipsoid. Seeds g -ovoid. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 571 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 97 ; Koxb. Cor. PI. v. 2, p. 18, t. 133 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, 

 p. 225. 



This pl.int is given as occurring in Bc«nbaT on the autiiority of Dolzell ^- Gibson 

 (/. c). I haTe seen no Bombay specimens, nor are there any in Herb. Kew. 



