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Fl. 15; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng.'lSTT, Pfc. II, 110 : Clarke ia 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 659. S. repens, Willd. Enura. p. 511 ; DC. Prod. 

 Ill, 453 : W. & A. Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. 361 ; Wight in Hook. Comp. 

 Bot. Mag. II, 71, t. 23 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 1060. Psammanthe 

 marina, Hance in Walp. Ann. II, 660. Grithmum indicum, Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. VI, t. 72, fig. 1. 



On the sea shores in the Andamans and the other Provinces. — 

 DiSTRiB. B. India, Malayan Archipelago. 



2. MoLLUGO, Linn. 



Herbs, branched, often dichotomous. Leaves often falsely whorled, 

 or alternate, or all radical, from linear to obovate, entire ; stipules 

 fugacious. Flowers axillary, sessile or pedicelled, clustered or in pani- 

 cles or racemes, small, greenish ; bracts inconspicuous. Sepals 5, per- 

 sistent. Petals ; staminodes or small in the same species. Stamens 

 5-3, rarely many. Ovary free, globose or ellipsoid, 3-5-celled ; styles 

 3-5, linear or very small; ovules "many, axile. Capsule membranous, 

 sheathed by the sepals, 3-5-celled, dehiscing dorsally. Seeds several in 

 each cell, rarely 1, reniform, appendaged or not at the hilum; embryo 

 annular. — Distrib. Species 12, tropical and subtropical. 



MoLLTJGO PENTAPHYLLA, Linn. Spcc. Plantar, ed. 1 (1753), 89. A 

 few inches high, glabrous ; stems much-branched, leafy, varying from 

 oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate-acute to obovate-obtuse, contracted at the 

 base, subsessile or sessile, from less than '5 in. to more than 2 in. 

 in length. Panicles compound, terminal, many times longer than the 

 leaves. Sepals elliptic or rotund, blunt. Stamens 3 to 5, short ; fila- 

 ments rather broad, compressed. Capsule globose, as long'asthe sepals, 

 thin-walled, many seeded. Seeds dark- brown, tubercled ; embryo curved. 

 W. & A. Prodr. 44 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 16; Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1877, Part II, 111. M. triphylla, Lour. Fl. Cochinc. 79; DC. 

 Prodr. I, 392 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 9, Fl. Ind. I, 360 ; Wall. Cat. 651; W. 

 & A. Prodr. 44. M. Linhii, Seringe in DC. I.e. M. striata, Linn. Sp, 

 PI. ed. 11,131; DC. Prodr. I, 391; Roxb. I.e. ; Wall. Cat. 650; W. 

 & A. Prodr. 44; Dalz. & Gibs. I.e.; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 663 : Pharnaceum strictum, triphyllum and pentaphyllum, Spreng. 

 Syst. I, 949.— Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 26. 



In all the Provinces, near cultivated places. — Distrib. General 

 throughout S. E. Asia. 



Order LV. UMBELLIFER^. 



Herbs (rarely in non-Indian species shrubs or trees). Leaves alter- 

 nate, usually divided or dissected, sometimes simple, petiole generally 



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