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acute, all sessile, 3-nerved, rough on the margin alone ; panicle lax, 

 few-flowered ; flowers long-pedicelled, solitary ; pedicels 4-winged, 

 thickened upwards. Malwan, in grassy places ; flowers in Sep- 

 tember. 



3. ALATA, Wall Cat. Stem 4-winged above, below simple and 

 tetragonal ; leaves ovate-oblong, rather acute ; floral ones orbicular 

 or slightly kidney-shaped ; central flowers sessile, sometimes none ; 

 calyx with a semiovate wing. Near Vingorla. 



4. DIFFUSA, R. Br. Prod, p 451. Stem obsoletely winged; 

 very much branched ; leaves ovate-acute ; central flowers pedicelled, 

 sometimes wanting ; calyx wingless ; corolla pink or rosy. We have 

 failed to find any difference between C lawii (Wight Ic. 1327, 

 fig. 1,) and this species. Common in rocky parts of the Concan. 

 Syn. Pladera virgata, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 417 ; Exacum diliusum, 

 Willd. 



6. LIMN ANTHEM UM, Gmel. 



1. CRISTATUM, Griseb. Gent, p 342. An aquatic plant ; leaves 

 cordate-orbicular, roughish above, glandular beneath; calyx seg- 

 ments ovate-lanceolate ; segments of the corolla waved-ciliated, 

 with a longitudinal crest within ; flowers white, cymose, inserted on 

 the petiole; capsule 1 to 2-seeded; seeds muricated. Tanks in 

 the Concan. Syn. Menyanthes cristata, Roxb. Cor. ii, p 3, t. 105 ; 

 Villarsia cristata, Spr. syst. i, p 582 ; Hook. Jour, i, p 123 ; 

 Menyanthes indica, Bory. 



2. INDICUM, Griseb. Gent, p 343. Leaves cordate-orbicular, 

 membranaceous, roughish ; calyx segments ovate ; segments of the 

 corolla fringed on the margin, destitute of crest within ; flowers 

 white ; arising from the petiole ; capsule many-seeded ; seeds 

 muricated. Tanks in the Concans and Deccan ; flowers white, rather 

 smaller than in the preceding. Syn. Menyanthes indica, Linn, 

 sp. PI i, p 207 ; Villarsia indica, Vent. Choix. p 9. 



3. AURANTIACUM^ Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 136. Umbels 

 axillary ; leaves small, orbicular, deeply cordate, shining above, 

 glandular dotted and purple beneath ; corolla orange-coloured, half 

 inch long ; segments of the limb wedge-shaped, broadly and deeply 

 emarginate, fringed on the margin, bearded at the base ; seeds 

 lenticular, muricated; capsule ovate-obtuse, 1 2-seeded. Near 

 Malwan; flowers in September. 



4. PARVIFOLIUM, Griseb. in DC. Pro/1. 9, p 141. A minute 

 plant; leaves cordate-orbicular, small (J inch) membranaceous; 

 petioles bearing the flowers, immediately below the leaf; capsule 

 many-seeded; seeds minute, rough. Very common in tanks, but 

 difficult to find, on account of its small size ; at Malwan, 

 Surat, &c. ^yn. Villarsia par vi folia, Wall. Cat. 4351. 



