Rydrolea.] HYDRO PHYLL ACE JR. 81 



Common in wet ground, and ofton mot with in rice-fiolde. Flowers Octo- 

 ber — December. Distrib. Throughout India, ascending to 4,000 ft. on 

 the Himalaya also in Ceylon and Burma, extending to the Malay Ponin- 

 eula and Islands, China, the Philippines, Australia, Trop. Africa and 

 America. The leaves are sometimes used as a poultice and are regarded 

 as possessing antiseptic properties. 



LXXVI.— B OR A GIN ACE iE. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees, often hispid or scabrous. Leaves usually 

 alternate, exstipulate. Inflorescence usually a diohotomous oyme 

 with ecorpioid branches, sometimes 3-chotomonsly panicled, rarely 

 solitary and axillary. Floicers 2-sexual and usually regular, with or 

 without bracts. Calyx inferior, 5- rarely 6*8-toothed or lobed, usually 

 persistent and often accrescent in fruit, tube sometimes very short. 

 Corolla usually fi -lobed, often with scales in the throat ; lobes imbri- 

 cate in bud, rarely twisted Stamens on the corolla-tube, as many as 

 the lobes and alternate with them ; filaments filiform, often dilated at 

 the ba*e. Dish hypogynous or obsolete. Ovary superior, 2*celled 

 with 2 ovules in each cell, or 4-celled with one ovule in each cell ; style 

 terminal or gynobasic, long or short, simple or once or twice forked, 

 ovules erect, anatropous. Fruit a drupe, or dividing into 2-4 

 nutlets. Seeds erect or oblique, testa membranous, albumen fleshy 

 or none, radicle superior. — Species about 1,500, cosmopolitan. 



Ovary entire or slightly 4-lobed, style terminal. 

 Style twice forked. — Trees . . . . 1. Cordia. 



Style once forked or styles 2. 



Style bifid.— Trees or shrubs . . . 2. Ehretia. 



Styles free at the base and apex, but easily 

 separable at the middle. — A prostrate 



herb .3. Coldenia. 



Style 1,^ simple. — A virgate shrub . . . 4. Ehabdia. 

 Style with a depressed stigmatose ring below 

 the apex. — Herbs 5. Heliotropium. 



Ovary doeply 4-lobed, style gynobasic (except 

 in Trichodesma). 

 Anthers connivent in a cone, connectives 



much produoed and twisted together at the 



apex, style subterminal.—Herbs . . 6. Trichodesma. 



Anthers not connivent in a cone, included, 

 i=tyle gynobasic. — Herbs. 

 Nutlets attached to a convex or conical 

 carpophore. 



