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the styles equal in number to the cells, simple or finely lobed ; ovules 

 4, (1 in Hippurus) pendulous. Fruit small, dry or drupaceous, with 

 cells as in the ovary, indehiscent, or separating into its component 

 carpels. Seeds 4 or 1. Distrib. ; about 80 species, cosmopolitan. 



Terrestrial; fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded... .-. .. 1. Haloragis. 



Aquatic (floating); fruit separating into its component 



carpels ... ... ... ... ... 2. Myriophyllum. 



1. Haloragis, Forst. 



Branching herbs. Leaves opposite, the upper sometimes alternate, 

 toothed, rigid. Flowers minute, nearly sessile in the axils of bracts, 

 spicate or racemose, partially unisexual or hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube 

 4-8-ribbed; lobes 4, erect, persistent, acute, valvate. Petals 4, coria- 

 ceous, often wanting in the $ . Stamens 8, epigynous. Ovary 2- or 

 4-celled, with 4 pendulous ovules ; stigmas 4 (in the females at least), 

 sessile, feathery. Fruit a dry, 2-4-celled, 2-4-seeded nut ; but in the 

 following species by abortion 1-celled, 1-seeded. Distrib. Species 40 ; 

 N. Asia, Australia. 



Haloragis micrantha, R. Brown in Flinders Yoy. II, 550. A 

 branching glabrous herb. Leaves opposite, ovate, acute, denticulate ; 

 the petioles very short, diminishing in size towards the inflorescence. 

 Flowers about 05 in., on pedicels shorter than themselves, in terminal 

 panicle-like racemes. Sepals triangular, much smaller than the petals. 

 Fruit shining, 8-ribbed, about *05 in. long, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Clarke 

 in Hook. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 430 ; Benth. PI. Austral. II, 482. H. tenella, 

 Brongn. in Duperr. Yoy. t. 68. Gonocarpus micrantJius, Thunb. PL Jap. 

 t. 15 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 6Q. Goniocarpus micranthus, Koen. & Sims Ann. 

 Bot. I, 546, t. J 2. 



At elevations of about 5000 feet on the Perak Central Range ? 

 Distrib. Malaya, China, Australia and New Zealand. Khasia moun- 

 tains ; at elevations of from 5000-7000 feet. 



I include this as a Perak plant with some hesitation. Scortechini's specimens 

 are not now in the Calcutta Herbarium, although his field note is. 



2. Myriophyllum, Linn. 



Glabrous, aquatic herbs. Leaves dentate-serrate or pectinate- 

 pinnatifid, or entire, often whorled. Flowers small, sessile or nearly so, 

 in the axils of floral leaves or in nearly naked spikes ; monoecious or 

 hermaphrodite. Male ; calyx-tube short, limb 2-4-fid or ; petals 2-4 ; 

 stamens 2-8. Female ; calyx- tube deeply 4-furrowed, limb or of 4 

 minute lobes ; petals minute or ; ovary inferior, 4- or 2-celled ; styles 

 2 or 4, short, nsually recurved, the stigmas plumose ; ovules solitary 



