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connective) in appendicem triangularem membranaceam producto. 

 Q : Perianthii segmenta 6, exteriora late elliptica vel subrotun- 

 data, ad 6 mm. longa, 4*5 mm. lata, interiora late lanceolata, 5 mm. 

 longa, 2 mm. lata, omnia mucronata. Styli 3, breviter connati, 

 stigmatibus 3 lunatis. Capsula immatura, 9 mm. alta, 11 mm. lata, 

 alis chartaceis valde inaequalibus, loculis 3, placentis bifidis. — Craib, 

 Kew Bull. 1911, p. 58. 



Chiengmai, in crevices on damp rocks on Doi Sootep, 1350 m., 

 Kerr, 785. 



After examination of additional material {Kerr, 1420) the writer 

 is disposed to regard B, sootepensis as a variety of B, yunnanensis, 



UMBELLIFERA.E. 



Hydrocotyle asiatica, Linn, — F.B.I., ii. p. 669 ; Coll. et Hemsl., 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, xxviii. p. 61 ; Williams, Bull. Herb. Boiss., iv. 

 (1904) p. 1034. 



Chiengmai, 300 m., Kerr, 1670 — " a garden weed." 



Distr, Tropics. 



Hydrocotyle javanica, Thunb. — F.B.I., ii. p. 667 ; Coll. et Hemsl., 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, xxviii. p. 61. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, 900 m., Kerr, 1258. 

 Distr. Tropics. 



Hydrocotyle siamica, Craib, ab affini H, Hookeri (C. B. Clarke, 

 pro var.), pedicellis multo longioribus facile distinguenda. 



Herba repens, ad nodos interdum radicans. Folia pentagona, vix 

 vel fere ad medium lobata, ad 9 cm. longa et 10 cm. lata, utrinque 

 parcissime setulosa et praeterea nervis subtus puberula, e basi 7-9- 

 nervia, nervis supra conspicuis subtus prominulis ; petioli ad 15 cm. 

 longi. Umbellae axillares, solifcariae, pedunculo ad 10*5 cm. longo 

 brunneo-puberulo suffultae. Pedicelli ad 8 mm. longi, glabri vel pilis 

 perpaucis rigidiusculis deciduis instructi, basi conspicue bracteati. 

 Calycis dentes deficientes. Petala subviridia, oblonga, apice acuta, 

 incurva, 1 mm. longa, vix 0*5 mm. lata, glabra. Antherae oblongae, 

 filamentis circiter 1 mm. longis dorso affixae. Styli persistentes, ad 

 1*5 mm. longi. Fructus a latere compressus, 1*5 mm. altus, 2 mm. 

 latus, jugis exceptis pilis albis brevibus obtusis rigidis instructus. — 

 Craib, Kew Bull. 1911, p. 58. H, javanica, Thunb., var. siamica, 

 Hosseus, ii. p. 420. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, 1200-1650 m., Kerr, 670, Hosseus, 192. 



For uniformity with the Flora of British India the Siam plant 

 might have been treated as a variety of H, javanica but in the 

 writer's opinion the variety Hookeri, C. B. Clarke, of H, javanica 

 should be raised to specific rank as should also the variety chinensis, 

 Dunn, of the same species. These three species H, chinensis, 

 H. Hookeri, and H, siamica, form a very natural group distinguished 

 from H. javanica by their solitary generally long peduncled umbels. 



Eryngium foetidum, Linn, — Hosseus, ii. p. 420. 

 Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, 720 m., Kerr, 738. 

 Distr, Burma, Assam, Trop. Africa and America. 

 Dr. Kerr remarks that the leaves, which are strongly aromatic, 

 are eaten with curries. 



