1902.] G-. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula- 71 



secondary ridges absent; pericarp thin, blackish. DC. Prodr. IV. 67 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 1, 734 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, Pt. II. 

 113; Clarke in Hook fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 6G7. H. hispida, Don Prodr. 

 183. H. nepalensis, Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 30 ; Wall. Cat. 56 L ; DC. I.e. 65 ; 

 Miq, I.e. 735. H. zeylanica, DC. I.e. 67; W. & A. Prodr. 366; Miq. 

 I.e. 734. R. hirsuta, Blume Bijd. 884. H. polycephala, W. & A. Prodr. 

 366 ; Wight. Ic. t. 1003. H. hirta, R. Br. var. acutiloba, F. Muell. ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral. III. 340. H. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 563. H. strigosa, 

 Ham. in Wall. Cat. 7219. 



Perak ; and probably in all the other provinces except the Anda- 

 man and Nicobar Islands. — Distrib. The Malay Archipelago, Australia, 

 Philippines. 



2. Htdrocottle astatica, Linn. Sp. PI. 234. Leaves rotund-reni- 

 form, the margins not lobed but uniformly crenate or dentate, some- 

 times sub-entire, '5 to 2 in. broad. Peduncles short, often 2 or 3 together. 

 Petals obtuse, imbricate. Fruit compressed, secondary ridges prominent, 

 pericarp tbickened. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 : Fl. Ind. II, 88 ; Wall. Cat. 

 560 ; DC. Prodr. IV, 62 ; W. & A. Prodr. 366 ; Wight Ic. t. 565 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 105; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, Pt. II, 

 113 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 669. H. Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 

 7220. S. lurida, Hance in Walp. Ann. II, 690.— Rheede Hort. Mai. 

 X. t. 46. 



Andaman Islands ; Perak. — Distrib. Tropical and sub-tropical re- 

 gions. 



2. Eryngium, Linn. 



Spinescent, glabrous, erect, perennial herbs (the Indian species). 

 Leaves spinous-toothed, entire lobed or dissected. Flowers in simple 

 beads, each bracteolate ; bracts whorled, spinulose (in Indian species). 

 Calyx-tube covered witb ascending hyaline scales ; teeth rigid, acute. 

 ^Petals whitish, narrow, erect, emarginate, scarcely imbricate. Fruit 

 ellipsoid, nearly cylindric : carpels dorsally subcompressed, subconcave 

 on the inner face ; primary ridges obtuse not prominent, secondary ; 

 vitta3 in the primary ridges inconspicuous or 0, with some very slender 

 scattered in the endocarp : carpophore 0. Seed semi-terete, dorsally 

 subcompressed, subconcave on the inner face. — Distrib. Species 100, 

 temperate and tropical; plentiful in Western Asia. 



Eryngium fcetidum, Linn. Sp. PI. 232, (in part.) Erect, nnbranched 

 below, dichotornously branched above. Leaves radical, oblong-oblan- 

 ceolate, coarsely serrate, glabrous, 4 to 9 in. long and not more than 

 1 in. broad. Bracts of inflorescence all spinous-toothed ; the lower 

 deeply lobed ; the upper smaller (about 1 in. long), lanceolate, not 



