1877.] Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. Ill 



Sibth. Fl. Grace, t. 472; Tryphera prostrata, Bl. liydr. 549; DC. Prod. 

 XIII/2. 424). 



Var. a. lototdes, {Olinus lotoides, L. 1. c. ; M. Glinus a. Candida, 

 Fenzl. Monogr. Monog. Mollug. 358), branclics often wliite-tomentose ; 

 flowers sessile or nearly so. 



Var. /?. DiCTAMNOiDES, {GHnus dictamnoides, L. Mant. 243; DC. 

 Prod. III. 455; WA. Prod. I. 362 ; Pharnaceum i^entagynum, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. II. 103) , leaves pubescent but greenish ; flowers usually iDcdicclled. 



Hab. Var. a. common in fallow-fields, along river-banks, in rub- 

 bishy places, etc. all over Pegu, especially in the cultivated plains ; also 

 Ava. — Fl. May, June. 



2. M. Spergula, L. sp. pi. 131 ; DC. Prod. I. 391 ; WA. Prod. I. 

 44. (Jf. striata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 360 ; 31. ijarvijiora, Ser. ap. DC. Prod. 

 I. 391 ; Glinus Mollugo, Fenzl Monog. Mollug. 359 ; Alsine erecta 

 Burm. Zeyl. 13. t. 7 ; Fharoincewm Mollugo, L., Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 102). 



Hab. Frequent in* fallow-fields, along road-sides and river-banks, in 

 rubbishy places, etc. all over Burma, especially the cultivated 2:>lains, ascen- 

 ding up to 4500 ft. elevation into the hill-toungyas of Martaban. — Fl. HS. 



3. M. STRICTA, L. sp. pi. 131 ; DC. Prod. I. 391 ; Fenzl Monogr. 

 Mollug. 380 ; Walp. Rep. II. 241 ; WA. Prod. I. 44. 



Var. a. stricta {ISI. stricta, L. 1. c), leaves rather thin and green, 

 linear-lanceolate, usually acuminate at both ends, 



Var. /?. PENTAPHYLLA, Bth. Fl. Hongk. 23. (M, pentaphylla, L. sp. 

 pi. 131 ; DC. Prod. I. 391 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 359 ; WA. Prod. I. 44 ; 

 Fenzl Monogr. Mollug. 381 ; M. tripliylla. Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 79 ; DC. 

 Prod. I. 392 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 360 ; WA. Prod. I. 44). 



Hab. Var. ^. not uncommon in toungyas and native gardens of Mar- 

 taban and Pegu, and most probably elsewhere. — Fr. May. 



Gisekia, L. 

 1. G. PHARis-ACEOiDES, L. Mant, 2. app. 562 ; Roxb. Corom. PI. II. 

 1. 183 ; DC. Prod. XIII/2. 27 ; Wight Icon. t. 1167. 



Hab. Ava, near Yenang choung, road to the Petroleum-wells. (Wall.). 



UMBELLIFEB^. 



Conspectus of Species. 

 * TJmlels simple or irregularly (very rarely regularly) compound. 

 JVo vittce in tlie furroius of tJie mericarp. 

 Trih. 1. SYBEOCOTYLE^. Fruits laterally compressed, the mericarps rounded 

 or acute on the hack (not sharply angular). 



Hydrocotyle. Fruits much compressed. Calyx-teeth minute or obsolete. Petals 

 concave, valvate or imbricate. Umbels simple. Creeping herbs with simple leaves. 



Trib. 2. SANICVLE2E. Mericarps almost terete or laterally compressed the 

 commissure broad. CaljTsi-teeth or lobes usually conspicuous. 



