MyriopJiyllum.'] LVI. HALORAGE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 433 



also occur. Stamens always 4, but the number is probably not constant. Stigmas 

 pink, much fimbriate. Fruit looked down upon appears stellate. 



2. Itt. indicum, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 407 ; spikes in fruit subterminal, floral 

 leaves 3 in. narrow-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, upper entire or crenate, 

 fruit scarce ^ in. long but much broader, carpels 4 rounded on the back but 

 separated by wide furrows tubercled and puberulous or finally quite smooth and 

 glabrous. Wall Cat. 6338 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 68 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 339 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 634. M. tetrandrum, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 451 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 

 686 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 339 ; Miq. I. c. 634. [M. indicum, Wight III. t. 102 to be 

 altogether excluded. ] 



ASSAM and BENGAL, in the jheels and canals, common, COROMANDEL coast and 

 CEYLON. 



Upper whorls of male flowers, lower of female, intermediate often hermaphrodite. 

 Stamens 4. Stigmas green, little fimbriate. Fruit looked down upon appears 

 stellate. 



There is a variety with longer floral leaves, so that the inflorescence is hardly 

 terminal, and with the leaves not quite opposite ; but the fruit noway approaches 

 that of M. intermedium. 



3. M. verticillatum, Linn.; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 755; whorls of fruit 

 axillary, floral leaves -l| in. pectinate, segments linear, fruit about as long as 

 broad not deeply furrowed or tuberculate. DC. Prodr. iii. 68; Engl. Bot. 

 t. 218 ; not Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 12. 



KASHMIR, Falconer, Jacguemont, Thomson (all barren). Ponds above Shapiyon, 

 alt. 7000 ft. ; C. B. Clarke. DISTRIB, Persia, Dahuria, North Asia, Europe, North 

 America. 



Fruit subquadrate, backs of the carpels rounded, furrows between them broad 

 but shallow. 



4. M. spicatum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iii. 68; spikes always terminal, 

 "bracts oblong entire shorter than the expanded petals, fruit in. ovoid, backs of 

 the carpels broad flattened furrows very narrow soon becoming deep, carpels 

 more or less tubercled on the back. Engl. Bot. t. 83 ; Gaertn. Fruct. t. 68 ; 

 FL Dan. iv. t. 681 ; Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 755. 



KASHMIR, alt. 5000 ft. descending to 1000 ft. along the northern boundary of the 

 Punjab ; frequent. KUMAON, alt. 5000 ft. DISTRIB. Cabul, cold and temperate 

 Northern Hemisphere. 



Fruit ovoid, seen from above appears round, the valleys between the carpels being 

 too narrow to be noticed till closely examined. The fruit of the Indian examples is 

 rather larger than that of the European, the backs of the carpels being very flat 

 somewhat corky and thickened ; called M. spicatum Linn. var. muricatum by Maxi- 

 mowicz (Diagn. PL xv. 183) who quotes correctly Griff. No. 2442 (Kew Distrib.). 



5. BI. intermedium, DC. Prodr. iii. 69 ; fruit axillary, floral leaves -1 

 in. long alternate solitary or 2-3-nate linear and entire to lanceolate and incise- 

 serrate, fruit very small hardly ^ in. long but less broad, carpels rounded and 

 most minutely scabrous on their backs, furrows shallow. Miq. FL Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. i. 634. M. indicum, Wight 111. t. 102, the plant only, not the fruit. M. 

 varisefolium, Hook. Ic. PL t. 289. M. lineare, Heyne in Herb. RottL Halo- 

 ragis oligantha, W. $ A. Prodr. 338 ; Wight Ic. 1061 not of Am. 



NILGHIRI MTS., alt. 7000 ft. ; Hohenack&r No. 1563, Gardner, Schmidt, Wight. 

 Cuttalam, DECCAN PENINSULA, Eottler. Mayaburam, Sir T. Adam. DISTRIB. Malaya, 

 Australia, New Zealand, South America. 



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