350 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Wall. Cat. 3906; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 268. L. punctata, B\. 

 Bijdr. 750 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 388 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 682 ; 

 Maxim. Mel. Biol. IX. 406. Gratiola aromatica, Pers. Synops. I. 14. 

 Ambulia aromatica, Lamk Encycl. Meth. I. 128. Eheede Hort. 

 Malab. X. 6. 



Malacca : Griffith. Peeak : King's Collector ! Wray ! — Disteib. 

 S.E. Asia generally, N. Australia. 



9. LiMNOPHiLA sessifloea, Blume Bijdr. 750. A hirsute or rarely 

 glabrate herb ; stem stoutish, 4 to 8 in. long. Leaves 3 to 6 in a whorl 

 throughout all lobulate or pinnatisect, or the uppermost very rarely 

 opposite entire, usually about 4 to '5 in. long. Floivers axillary solitary, 

 sessile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx '3 in. long, lobes ovate-acuminate, 

 tube in fruit membranous, hemispheric, not striate. Corolla -5 in. long. 

 Capsule orbicular, turgid, -2 in. across. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 3902 ; DC. Prod. X. 389 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 683 ; Hook. f. 

 Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 270. Hottonia sessilifiora, Vahl Symb. II. 36. 



Kedah : Langkawi, in swamps, Curtis ! — Disteib. Throughout 

 S.E. Asia. 



10. LiMNOPHiLA HETEEOPHYLLA, Benth. ; var. reflexa. Hook. f. Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. IV. 270. A glabrous herb with a very slender elongated 

 stem, 1 to 1-5 feet long. Leaves towards apex of stem usually opposite, 

 small, rarely over -25 in. long, sessile, half-amplexicaul, oblong, margin 

 crenulate ; followed by pinnatifid leaves 4 to 6 in a whorl, -5 in. long ; 

 with below these submerged whorled and very finely capillary-multifid 

 leaves, -5 in. long. Flowers axillary solitary, the upper sub-sessile 

 passing into a short leafy spike, the lower pedicelled, with pedicels 

 recurved in fruit and longer than the calyx. Calyx "25 in. long, lobes 

 ovate, very shortly acuminate, in fruit not at all striate ; tube in fruit 

 hemispheric, membranous. Corolla "4 in. long. Capsule sub-globose, 

 •3 in. long. L. reflexa, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25 ; DC. Prod. X. 389 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3904. 



Malacca : Cuming. Kedah : Curtis 2103 ! — Disteib. (of variety,) 

 Tenasserim : (of type,) throughout S.E. Asia. 



This variety differs from the type in having distinctly shorter submerged leaves, and 

 distinctly longer pedicels to the lower flowers. 



11. LiMNOPHiLA Geifpithii, Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 271. A 

 very small herb with creeping tufted stems, sending down long rigid 

 roots and emitting many erect branches, 1 to 2 in. long, sometimes 

 stout and stiff, sometimes slender and flaccid. Leaves "25 to '35 in. 

 long, usually densely whorled and imbricated, multifid. Flowers 

 axillary solitary, on slender pedicels, '35 to -5 in. long, that are deflexed 



