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Koli Kfiiiy and Koli Saket, cast ashore or floating in tlie surface of the 

 water; Koh C.hanK near Leni Dan growinjj in shallow water on muddy ground. 

 Area: Ked Sea. Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



Gentianaceæ. 



Limnanthemum CJinel. 

 I. L. indicum (L.) Griseb., Genera et Species Gentianearum 1839; 

 Hook. f.. Fl. of British India IV. p. 131. 

 var. siamensis Ostf., nov. var. 



Leaves smaller, 2— 5 cm. long, broadly obovate, deeply cordate 

 with obtuse lobes and a triangular sinus, rather thin; flowers few 

 (3—3) in the umbel; pedicels 3-4 cm. long; bracts ovate, obtuse, 

 about 5mm. long; lobes of the corolla 5, oblong, 10— 15mm. long, 

 covered in the margins and above with numerous long cottony 

 papillose hairs, white with a yellow base; capsule?, seeds?. 



According to the above description it will be easy to see that this 

 little pretty Limnanthemum differs in some important points from the or 

 dinary L. indicum; but having only few flowers and no fruit at my dis- 

 posal I prefer to regard it as a variety of L. indicum. hoping that future 

 investigations will settle this point. 



Lem Ngob, in a small pond. 



Area: of the main species: from the Mascarene Islands throughout India. 

 Malaya, Austraha to Fiji Islands. 



Nymphæaceæ. 

 Nymphæa L. 



<». V stellata Willd. Spec. II, 1799, p. 115-2; Hook, f., Fl. of British 

 India I, p. I 14. 



The collected specimens belong to var. 1 . punctata Caspary, Annales 

 Musei Botan. Lugdano-Batavi vol.11, 1865—66, p. 244, A, wmc?//«;!« Gasp., 

 ibid.. a, caerulea Gasp., ibid. 



Abundant in pools near Lem Dan. 



Area: Kgy[tt. Cordofan. Senegaml)ia, Guinea, East Africa, Madagascar, In- 

 dia. Malaya. 



Nelumbo Adans. 



10. >'. niicifcra Gaertn., De Fructibus 1788 I, p. 73; N. speciosum 

 Willd., Spec. 11, 1799, p. 1258, Hook, f., Fl. of British India I, p. 116; 

 Nymphæa Nelumbo Linné, Spec. Plant. 1 753. 



Cultivated everywla-rc throughout the area explored. 



Area: Persia. India. Malay Aicliipelago, Japan, (Ihina to Amur-river. Au- 

 stralia. 



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