450 
Spec. Cuar. Herbaceous, glabrous, creeping or floating by means 
of vesicles round the insertion of the leaves, rooting fram, the. joints : 
leaves oblong-obovate, obtuse or rétusé, petioled: tube of the calyx 
slightly villous, cylindrical, attenuated at.the base: lobes 5, lanceo- 
late, aeute, twice as short as the 5 obgvate emarginate petals: 
flowers on longish pedicels, reddish-white. 
Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. 
(2) J. vitnosa. (Lam.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 336.—Dee. prod. HII. p. 57. 
Syn. J. suffruticosa, Linn. Dee. prod. l. c. p. 58.—J. fratico- 
sa, Dec.—J. exaltsta, Roxb. fl. Ind. Tl. p. 401.-=Epijobium fruti- 
cosum, Lowr. ; ae , a ie: 
Engrav. Bheede Mal. II, t, 50. 
Srec. Cuar. Herbaceous, perennigl, erect, more or less pubes- 
Gent : leaves from broad-lanceolate to Hear-acuminate, tapering at 
the base. into a short petiole: ealyxslobes 4, sometimes 5, broad- 
lanceolate or ovate, 3-A-nerved, much shorter than the petals: cap- 
sule nearly cylindrical; elongated: flowers almost sessjle, with two 
bracteoles often folaceous but sometimes scale-like between the 
base and middle of the calyx-tube: flowers largish, yellow. 
Peninsula, Northern. India, Flowerisig.in the rainy seasom 
GENUS Il. LUDWIGIA. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. Named in honor of Herr Ludwig, formerly Professor of 
Medicine at, Leipsie,, 
Grn. Cuan. Calyx-tube cylindrical, cohering with. the ovary its 
whole.length; limb 4, opeasionally.5~partite,:, segments, deciduous : 
petals. 4-5,:. stamens 4-5, opposite. the.calpx-lobes;: apex of. the; 
ovary or base of the style pyramidal, 4—5-angled, 4—5-furzowed : 
angles. villous: stigma, capitate, 4--§-furrewed. or, lobed: capsule, 
turhinate, or, much elongated, 4,5-celled, surmounted ,with the, base. 
of the style: seeds very numerous, 
(1) L. parvirror4, (Resd.) 
* Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 419.—W, & A. prod. L. p. 33 
Dee. prod. III. p. 59. ie ; pane Ba Beh 
Syn. L. diffusa, Ham. in Linn. Soe. Trans. XIV. p. 301.— 
L. perehinis; Ling, Dec, l. c.——L, Zeylaniea, Pers. —Iusyiza: earyo- 
phylleea, Lam. ; 
Engray. Wight’s Ill. IL, t. 101.—Rheede Mal. II. t. 49.— 
Pluk, t. 203. f. 5. 
