560 CLXIX. ALISMACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Alisma. 



Marshes, &c. of the LOWER HIMALAYA, alt. 1-7000 ft., from Kashmir to Munne- 

 pore and Burma. DISTRIB. N. and S. temp, regions. 



llootstocTc fleshy, swollen. Leaves 6-8 in., erect or spreading. Scape 1-4 ft. 

 Flowers in panicled whorls, in. diam. ; petals pink or rose with a yellow claw. 

 Achenes 20-30, in a single whorl ; style ventral. A small state found in Kashmir, 

 alt. 7000 ft., by Clarke, resembles A, ranunculoides, but the carpels are in one whorl, 

 though irregularly disposed. 



2. A. reniforme, Don Prodr. 22 ; leaves orbicular-cordate or reni- 

 form 13-17-nerved, fruiting sepals persistent, achenes 5-8 turgid, endocarp 

 thick hard, style slender persistent. Wight Ic. t. 322 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 

 151; Benih. FL Austral. 186. A. calophyllum, Wall. Gat. 4997. A. 

 parnassifolmm, j3 majus, Micheli in DG. Monog. Phan. iii. 36. 



Marshes, &c., throughout the plains and low country of India, ascending the 

 hills to 5000 ft. (not in Ceylon). DISTRIB. Australia. 



Leaves coriaceous, l-4 in. (up to 7 in. broad), often broader than long, tip 

 rounded or emarginate, nervules very fine and close. Scape 1-3 ft. Flowers white, 

 i in. diam., in very large whorled panicles ; branches and pedicels long ; sepals as 

 long as the petals, at first erect in fruit, at length reflexed. Achenes not whorled, 

 obovoid, dorsally ribbed, ribs smooth ; style subterminal. United by Micheli with 

 the European A. parnassifolium, but differing much in the coriaceous very broad large 

 leaves and in geographical distribution. 



3. A. oligrococcum, F. Muell. Fragm. Pliyt. 'Austral, i. 23 ; leaves 

 membranous broadly ovate-cordate with acute lobes and a narrow sinus 

 punctate 11-17-nerved, bracts very large lanceolate, fruiting sepals re- 

 nexed, achenes 2-6 whorled turgid dorsally keeled keels tubercled, endo- 

 carp thick hard, style very short terminal deciduous. Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 vii. 185 ; Micheli, in DC. Monog. Phan. iii. 37. A. glandulosum, Tliw. 

 Enum. B32. A. apetalum, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4996. 



Marshes, &c., in the plains of the PAN JAB and BENGAL, but not common. CEYLON, 

 Thwaites. DISTRIB. Africa trop., Australia. 



Leaves 3-6 in. long by 2-3 in. broad, nervules distant. Panicle 6-9 in. long 

 and broad j bracts herbaceous, lower 1-3 in. long, lanceolate. Flowers of L. 

 Plantago. 



2. LIMNOPHYTON, Miquel. 



An erect succulent marsh plant, with the characters of Alisma, except 

 that the flowers are polygamous. 



Xi, obtusifolium, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 242; Micheli, in A.DG. 

 Monogr. Phan. iii. 39. Alisma sagittifolium, Willd. Sp. PL ii. 277; 

 Kunth. Enum. iii. 151. A. Kotschii, Hochst. in Flora, 1843, 499. A. 

 obtusifolium, Thw. .Enum. 332. Sagittaria obtusifolia, Linn. ; Kunth. 

 Enum. iii. 158 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 646 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 249 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 4992. Dipseudochorion sagittifolium, Uuchen. in Flora, 1865, 

 241. Rheede Sort. Mai. xi. t. 45. 



The DECCAN ; from the Concan southwards, in tanks, &c. CEYLON, Thwaites. 

 DISTRIB. Trop. Africa, Madagascar. 



Usually very robust, but sometimes dwarf. Leaves 6-12 by 4-8 in., reniformly 

 sagittate or triangular, with long tapering spreading lobes, many-nerved ; petiole 

 2-3 ft. Scape 2-4 ft., stout, angled. Flowers many, ^-| in. diam., white, upper 

 mostly male. Sepals reflexed after flowering. Petals obovate. Stamens 6, fila- 

 ments of the male enlarged at the base. Achenes numerous, turbinate, turgid, epicarp 

 fleshy j style ventral, stigma capitate. 



