LIX. ONAfiTlAfE-E. 517 



Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 233 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 038 ; Watt, Diet. Eeon. Prod. v. 4, p. 5o(). Jassifm villosa, Lamk. 

 Encvc. Method, v. 3 (1789) p. 331 ; Grah. Cat. p. 75 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 98. — Flowers : Aug.-Oct. Veux. PdnlavarHj. 



Konkan: Graham, Law'., SfocAsl; Vingorla, Dalzell cj- Gibson. Dectax : Tulsi 

 lank near Poona, Wood row \; Bowdlian near I'oona, li/iival; road (o Katlukvasla, 

 CooA-e I ; Kliandala, Graham. S. M. Country : Belgauiii, Ritchie, aU4 ! ; Londa, 

 Cooke\ Kanaka: Yellapur, Talbot I — Distrib. Tbrougliout India; Ceylon, warmer 

 regions of the world. 



2. LUD^VIGIA, Linn. 



Perennial or annual herbs. Leaves alternate or op])osite, usually 

 lanceolate, entire, membranous. Flowers usually axillary, solitary, 

 sessile or nearly so ; peduncles when present 2-brac'teate at the apex. 

 Calyx-tube not or scarcely produced above the ovary ; lobes 3-5, acute, 

 persistent or tardily deciduous. Petals 3-5 (or 0), inserted beneath the 

 margin of an epigynous disk, spreading. Stamens 3-5, inserted with 

 the petals ; filaments short. Ovary 4-5-celltd ; ovules numerous, 

 attached in 2 or more vertical rows to the inner angle of each cell. 

 Capsule crowned with the epigynous disk and calyx-lobes, opening 

 by terminal pores or breaking up irregularly along the sides. Seeds 

 very many, minute. — Distrib. Chiefly North American ; species 20. 



1. Iiudwigia parviflora, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 11, An 

 erect herb G-24 in. high ; stem more or less angular, much-branched, 

 glabrous. Leaves variable in size, 1-3 by |-| in., lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, narrowed to each end, glabrous ; petioles obscure. Flowers 

 small, solitary, axillary ; pedicels very short. Calyx-tube subcyliudric, 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent ; lobes 4, ovate, acute, ^^ in. long. 

 Petals 4, elliptic-oblong, as long as the calyx-lobes. Style short, stout. 

 Capsule 5-2 in. long, obsoletely 4-angled, smooth, crowned for a time 

 by the subpersisteut calyx-lobes, breaking away from the ribs. Seeds 

 very numerous, in several rows in each cell, minute, ellipsoid, yellowish- 

 brown, polished. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 588 ; Grah. Cat. p. 75 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 99; AVight, 111. t. 101; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 234 ; Woodi-. iu 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 638.— Flowers : May-June. 



Konkan: common, Dabell <f- Gibson, Graham; Neral, Woodrowl; liills near 

 Matherau, Kunitkar ! Deccan : Poona districts, Cooke ! — Distrib. Tln-oughout India ; 

 Ceylon, Malaya, N. Australia, Persia, Abyssinia. 



3. TRAP A, Linn. 

 Aquatic herbs. Leaves alternate, floating, petiolate, rhomboid, toothed, 

 stipulate ; petiole spongy, inflated. Flowers axillary, solitary. Calyx- 

 tube short, adnate to the lower part of the ovary ; calyx-limb 4-partite, 

 2 or all the segments persistent and becoming spinesceut on the fruit. 

 Petals 4, sessile, inserted at the base of an undulate epigynous disk. 

 Stamens 4, inserted with the petals. Ovary 2-celled, ^-inferior, 

 conical above the calyx, attenuated into a persistent subulate style ; 

 ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous ; stigma capitate. Fruit bony, 

 1-celled, obovoid, with 4 angles 2 or all of v\ hich carry spines, indehis- 

 cent, with a short cylindric beak at the top through which the radicle is 

 protruded. Seed 1, inverse ; cotyledons very unequal ; radicle incurved. — 



