Myriophyllitm.] Lvi. halorage^. (C. B. Clarke.) 433 



also occur. Stamens always 4, but the number is probably not constant. Stigmas 

 pink, much fimbriate. Fntit looked down upon appears stellate. 



2. nX. Indlcum, Willd. Sp. PI. iy. 407; spikes in fruit subterminal, floral 

 leavea ^-^ in. narrow-lanceolate or lineaivlaneeolate, upper entire or crenate, 

 fruit scarce jj in. long but much broader, carpels 4 rounded on the back but 

 separated by wide furrows tubercled and puberulous or finally quite smooth and 

 glabrous. Wcdl. Git. 6338 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 68 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 339 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 634. M. tetrandrum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 451 ; Qrif. Notul. iv. 

 686 ; ^. ^ A. Prodr. 339 ; Miq. I. c. 634. [M. indicum, Wiffht Hit. 102 to he 

 altogether excluded.'] 



AssAU and Bengal, in the jheels and canals, common, CoBOUAiniEL coast and 

 Cbtlon. 



Upper whorls of male flowers, lower of female, intermediate often hermaphrodite. 

 Stamens 4. Stigmas green, little fimbriate. SYuit looked down upon appears 

 stellate. 



There is a variety with longer floral leaves, so that the inflorescence is hardly 

 terminal, and with the leaves not quite opposite ; but the fruit noway approaches 

 that of ilf. intermedittm. 



3. M. vertlclllatum, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 766; whorls of fruit 

 axillary, floral leaves ^-IJ in. pectinate, segments linear, fruit about as long as 

 broad not deeply furrowed or tuberculate. DC. Prodr. iii. 68; Fngl. Bot. 

 t. 218 ; not Roxh. HoH. Beng. 12. 



Kashmir, Falconer, Jacgvemont, Thomson (all barren). Ponds above Shapiyon, 

 alt. 7000 ft. ; C. B. Clarke. — Disteib. Persia, Dahuria, North Asia, Europe, North 

 America. 



Fruit subquadrate, backs of the carpels rounded, furrows between them broad 

 but shallow. 



4. IMC. splcatum, lAnn.; DC. Prodr. iii. 68; spikes always terminal, 

 bracte oblong entire shorter than the expanded petals, fruit J in. ovoid, backs of 

 the carpels broad flattened furrows very narrow soon becoming deep, carpels , 

 more or less tubercled on the back. Engl. Bot. t. 83 ; Oaertn. Fruot. t. 68 ; 

 Fl. Dm. iv. t. 681 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 765. 



Kashmie, alt. 5000 ft. descending to 1000 ft. along the northern boundary of the 

 Punjab; frequent. Kumaon, alt. 5000 ft. — Distbib. Cabul, cold and temperate 

 Northern Hemisphere. 



Fruit ovoid, seen from above appears round, the valleys between the carpels being 

 too narrow to be noticed till closely examined. The fruit of the Indian examples is 

 rather larger than that of the European, the backs of the carpels being very flat 

 somewhat corky and thickened ; called M. spicatwm Linn. var. muricatum by Maxi- 

 mowicz {Biagn. PI. xv. 183) who quotes correctly Qriff. No. 2442 (Kew Distrib.). 



5. nX. intermedium, DC. Prodr. iii. 69 ; jMt axillary, floral leaves J-1 

 in. long alternate solitary or 2-3-nate linear and entire to lanceolate and incise- 

 serrate, fniit very small hardly ^ in. long but less broad, carpels rounded and 

 most minutely scabrous on tbeir backs, furrows shallow. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. i. 634. M. indicum, Wight III. t. 102, the plant only, not thefrvM. M. 

 variaefolium, Hook. Ic. PI. t, 289. M. lineare, Heyne in Herb. Bottl. Halo- 

 lagis oligantha, W. ^ A. Prodr. 838 ; Wight Ic. 1061 not of Am. 



NiLGHmi Mrs., alt. 7000 ft. ; Hohenacker No. 1563, Gardner, Schmidt, Wight. 

 Cuttalam, Deccan Peninstjia, Bottler. Mayaburam, Sir T. Adam. — Distkib. Malaya, 

 Australia, New Zealand, South America. 



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