24 T/ie Flowering Plants of Western India. 



ORDER 18. ELATINEJE. Waterpeppers. 



Small herbs or undershrubs, leaves opposite or whorled, 

 flowers small, axillary, sepals, petals, and styles 2 to 5, stamens 

 as many or twice as many ; capsule 3 to 5 celled. 



BERGIA. Flowers minute, all parts usually 5, sepals with 

 herbaceous midrib and membranous margins. 



1. -Z?. odorata (JElatine o. D.) A small, mean-looking plant 

 nearly prostrate, more or less hairy ; leaves less than inch long, 

 oval oblong serrated, flowers inconspicuous, pinkish few to- 

 gether, stamens 10, styles 5. 



Very variable : smells of camomile (ZT.). 



Pretty common in Guzerat (-ZX). It grows in masses in cultivated 

 fields in the Panah Mahals. 



2. S. ammanioides. Erect, branched 3 to 12 inches high, 

 with rough stems and oblong lanceolate sharply serrated leaves, 

 flowers minute reddish, several together, stamens 5. 



Very like an Ammania, and growing in wet ground. Throughout 

 India, H. 



* B. verticillata is apparently not so common. It has white flowers 

 in dense sessile heads, and 10 stamens. Dr. Dymock calls it hintd?, 

 which probably will apply to the other species also. 



Note. O. gives these two last species as Octandria trigynia. 



ORDER 18. GTJTTIFER-ffi. 



Trees or shrubs abounding in yellow or greenish juice, leaves 

 opposite, flowers regular, sepals and petals 2 to 6, stamens 

 usually indefinite ; fruit usually a berry or drupe. 



This small order contains some of the most beautiful of Indian 

 trees. It seems to have no particular affinities to other orders here 

 given. In all the genera given below the flowers are male, female, 

 and hermaphrodite. All here given are trees. 



1. GARCINIA. Sepals and petals 4 or 5, anthers sessile, or 

 on short thick filaments, stigma lobed, berry with leathery 

 rind, seeds with pulpy aril. 



2. OCKROCARPUS. Sepals 2, anthers erect, stigma 3 lobed, 

 berry with 1 to 4 large seeds. 



3. CALOPHYLLTJM. Leaves very finely veined, flowers in 

 panicles, sepals and petals imbricated in 2 or 3 series, anthers 

 erect, stigma peltate, fruit a drupe. 



4. MESUA. Flowers large, axillary, solitary, anthers erect, 

 style long, stigma peltate, fruit 4-valved with 1 to 4 seeds. 



