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108. Herpestis Monnieria H. B. & K., Syn., ii., ]25; Hook, 

 f., Floi-. Brit. Ind., iv., 272. Gratiola Monnieria Linn., Sp. PI. 

 (ed. ii.) 24 ; Koxb., Flor. Ind., i., 141. 



Auderut ; Alcoeh ! 



A marsh-weed, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



109. Striga lutea Lour., Flor. Cochin. 22; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. 

 Ind., iv.j 299. Buchnera asiatica Liuu., Sp. PI. 630, in part; 

 Roxb., Flor. lud., iii., 31. 



Akati; Flaming! Kadamum ; Fleming! Kiltan ; Fleming! 



A parasitic weed distributed throug-hout tropical Africa, the Mas- 

 carene Islands, Arabia, India, Iudo-("Jhina and China. It occurs 

 in the Andamans (as an introduced species) ; apparently absent 

 from Malaya. 



ACANTHACE.E. 



110. Euellia prostrata Poiret, Eucyc. Meth., vi., 349; Hook, 

 f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 411. B. ringens Roxb., Flor. Ind., iii., 44. 



Minikoi ; very common, Fleming ! 



jmmon throughout India and Ceylon and extending- to East 

 Africa ; absent from Malaya and ludo-China. Roxburgh's 

 description applies to a form with larger leaves and longer iuternodes 

 tlian typical R. prostrata; in Mr. Fleming's gatherings (five or sis 

 in number) both forms occur, as well as intermediate conditions. 



111. Barleria Prionitis Linn., Sp. PI. 636; Roxb., Flor. Ind., 

 iii., 36; Hook, f., Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., 482; Watt, Diet., i., 400. 

 B. ciliata Hume, Stray Feathers, iv., 446, nee Roxb. B. cristata 

 Prain, Laccad. List 6, nee Linn. 



Ameni; Hume / Minikoi; planted as a hedge, Fleming f 

 Tropical Africa and Asia, perhaps usually only an introduced 

 plant in India. 



This is mentioned by Mr. Hume in conjunction witli a number of 

 apparently introduced species, and in Minikoi it is also an introduced 

 plant. The specimen on which the presence of B. cristata in tho 

 group depends, proves on re-examination to be only an example 

 of B. prionitis without any trace of spines. Mr. Hume indeed 

 states that, like the spiny Acanthad, the unarmed one is " yellow- 

 blossomed " which alone makes its identification with B, ciliat«, 

 (/). cristata) impossible. And Mr. Fleming's Minikoi specimens 



