622 Lxx. iiuBiAC'E.i:. 



rather rigiJ, 5-8 by Ig-SI iu., elliptic-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or 

 pubescent above, more or less hairy especially on the nerves beneath, 

 reticulately veined, base acute; main nerves 10-16 pairs, arcuate; 

 petioles g-f in. long; stipules triangular, hairy. Flowers numerous, 

 sessile or nearly so, in subglobose heads in terminal trichotomous pubes- 

 cent panicles, white or blue; bracteoles beneath the calyx minute, 

 subulate. Calyx i-i in. long, hairy; tube narrow; teeth 4-5, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, yL ill. long, ])ubescent. Corolla up to | in. long, pubes- 

 cent outside ; tube slender, slightly enlarged at the top, without hairs 

 in the throat ; lobes 4-5, ovate, acute, glabrous inside, i by iV i"- (Cap- 

 sules ellipsoid, ^-^ in. loug. Seeds 3-quetrous, witli a loose arillate lace- 

 like covering. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 197 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. cxxxiv-12, t. 17, f. 3 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 200 ; Woodr. 

 in Jouru. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1898) p. 646; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod, 

 v. 4, p. 200. HamUtonia mysorensis, Wiglit & Arn. Prodr. p. 423 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 91; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 115.— Flowers: Oct.-Feb. Veen. 

 Gidesa ; Oidas ; Gidasdiva. 



Hills throughout the Presidencj-. Konkan: island of Karanja, Da/^-e^/ ^ Gibson. 

 Deccax : Mahableshwar, Woodrow; Fitzgerald Gh;it below Mahableshwar, Cookel; 

 Warra Ghat road and Falkland Point, Mahableshwar, //. M. Birdtcood; Kartriz Ghat, 

 Woodrow ! ; Kamatki Ghat, Cooke I ; Sinhagad hill near Pooua, £kiva ! Kanaka : 

 on the highest hills of the Snpa taluka, N. Kanara, Talhot—BiSTRin. India (tropical 

 and subtropical Himalayas, Central India, W. Peninsula) ; China. 



31. HYDROPHYLAX, Linn. f. 

 Subsucculent herbs, creeping, glabrous ; branches terete. Leaves 

 opposite, sessile, ovate or oblong ; stipules combined into an entire or 

 toothed cup-like sheath, persistent. Flowers solitary, axillary, sessile 

 or shortly pedieelled, lilac. Calyx-tube 4-augled ; limb 4-partite, the 

 segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, persistent. Corolla subfleshy, between 

 campanulate and infundibuliform ; tube with a ring of Lairs inside ; 

 lobes 4, ovate, valvate. Stamens 4, on the corolla-throat ; filaments 

 filiform; anthers linear. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary, peltately 

 attached to the septum in each cell ; style filiform, pubescent ; stigma 

 obscurely 2-lobed. Fruit large, corky, oblong-ovoid, compressed, slightly 

 curved, acutely 3-4-keeled between the acute mai-gins, 1-2-celled, 2- 

 seeded. Seeds linear-oblong, convex on the back, longitudinally grooved 

 on the face ; testa minutely granulate ; albumen cartilaginous ; embryo 

 straight; radicle elongate, terete, inferior.— Distrib. Species 3, of 

 which 1 is in India, 1 in Madagascar, and 1 in Natal. 



1. Hydrophylax maritima, Linn. f. Siqiph (1781) p. 126. A 

 perennial herb ; stems numerous, prostrate, rooting at the nodes, stout, 

 glabrous, clothed with the cup-like persistent stipules of fallen leaves. 

 Leaves g-| by ^g in., sessile, more or less recurved, ovate-oblong or 

 obovate-oblong, acute, fleshy, much wrinkled when dry, smooth or 

 papillose ; stipules large, membranous, forming a cup round the stem, 

 truncate or obscurely toothed, sometimes ciliate. Flowers sessile, soli- 

 tary, axillary. Calyx | in. long, glabrous ; teeth lanceolate or narrowly 

 triangular, acute, \ in. long. Corolla ^ in. long ; tube enlarged at the 

 top and with a ring of hairs in the throat ; lobes ovate, acute, much 

 shorter than the tube. Fruit |-| in. loug, oblong, tapered at both ends, 



