EIUOCAULONK.IC XYRIDACE*. 731 



5. melaleucmi, Mart. ? (o. c. p. 29.) © Bengal, (Scrampore.) Fl. and fr. 

 R. S. 



Besides these, 7 other species have been collected in the neighbourhood 

 ol Serampore, by the native gardeners attached to the garden. They have 

 all flowered and seeded, but are as yet undetermined. 



* Eriocaulon pallidum, R. Br. Tropical New Holland. — E. fistuiosum, 

 R. Br. Tropical New Holland. — E. deustum, R. Br. Tropical New 

 Holland. — E. Wallichianum, Mart. (Wall. pi. as. rar. 3, t. 249.) 

 Tavoy. — E Brownianutn, Mart. (Wall. pi. as. rar. 3, t. 248.) Silhet. 

 Kandalla. — E. cristatum, Mart. Khassya Mountains. — Tonina fluvia- 

 tills, Aubl. Guiana. 



ORDER CCLX XYRIDACE^, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 388. 



Herbs, by Lindl. referred to two genera. Of these, R. Br., Harvey, and 

 Spreng. enumerate 15 for New Holland and Van Diemen's Land, of which 

 one also is common to India ; 7 for S. America ; 5 for N. America ; 1 for 

 Sierra Leona ; 1 for S. Africa ; and I for Madagascar. In the E. Indies, 

 have been discovered 6 species of Xyris, 5 of which are described by Mar- 

 tius in Wall. pi. as. rar. 3, p. 29 and 30 ; and one (X. anceps, Lam.), 

 according to Spreng. a native of Malabar. Properties unimportant. 

 Xyris, L. {Endl. gen. pi. I, p. 124 ; — Mart. o. c. p. 29.) 



l.indica, L. {Mart. o. c. p. 30; — Roxb. fl. ind. 1, p. 179; ed. Carey, 

 1, p. 183 ,—J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 223 x—Rheed. 9. t. 71.) ^ft^Ct 

 Dabee-doobee. © Bengal, (Serampore.) S. Concan. Coromandel. Fl. 

 Nov. and Dec. ; fr. January and Feb. " The natives of Bengal esteem 

 it a plant of great value, because they think it an easy, speedy, 

 and certain cure for the troublesome eruption called ring-worms." 

 {fJon'ble. John Hyde in a letter to Roxb.) " This accords with what 

 Rheede. says of it, vol. 9, p. 139. Foliorum succus cum aceto mixtus 

 impetigini resistit. Folia cum radice oleo incocta, contra lepram su- 

 muntur." {Roxb.) 



Xyris pauciflora, Willd. %. Both Peninsulas of India. Silhet. Nepal. 

 Tropical New Holland. — X. schoenoides. Mart. Nepal. — X. lappacea, 

 Heyne. Coromandel. — X. robusta, Mart. Silhet. — X. complauata, 

 R. Br. Tropical New Holland. — X. scabra, R. Br. Tropical New Hol- 

 land. — X. lavis, R. Br. Tropical New Holland. — X denticulata, R 

 Br. Tropical New Holland. — Abolboda pulchella, Humb. Banks of 

 the Orinocco. — A. imberbis, Humb. Guiana. 



