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GENUS I. CALLITRICHE. 
Monandria Digynia. Sex: Syst: 
_Doriv. A name given-by Pliny to.a, plant which had the appear. 
ance of bgautiful hair, from Kallos, beautiful, and Thrix, hair, 
~ Gen, Guar. Aquatic herbaceous, plants : leaves opposite, sim- 
ple, entire : flowers axillary, very small, usually unisexual, some- 
times, with two smalt bracts at the base of the peduncle. 
(1) C. Wientiana. ( Wall.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 339. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1947. 
Srec. Cuar. Stems. creeping, : leaves.ohoyate, obtuse, 3-nerv- 
ed: flowers nearly sessile: pedicéls without’ Utacteoles: fruit of 4 
lobes, each with a winged keel at the back. 
Neilgherries, 
GENUS TE. CERATOPHYLLUM,. 
Monerela Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv; From Keras, a horn, and Phylion, a leaf, in-reference to: 
the leaves: being branclied like a stag’s horn. 
Gey. Citar. Aquatic herbs: leaves verticillate, cut into fili- 
form lobes: calyx many-parted: petals none: anthers 2:celled; bi- 
cuspidate ; ovary ovate, l-celled; with one solitary penttitous ovule :- 
style filiform, oblique; nut 1-celled,, indehiscent, crowned by the 
hardened stigma: embryo straight : albumen none. 
(1).C. vertiatatum. (Roxb. ) 
“Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. THT. p. 624. . 
' Syn. C: muricatum, Cham, W. § A. prod, Ii p. 309.—C. tu-- 
Berculatum, Gham. : 
Engrav, Wight’s Icon. t, 1948. 
Spec. Cuar. Fruit elliptical, slightly compressed, farnished with. 
8 spines, winged; wing narrow, with regular teeth: sidés of the 
fruit convex, more ori less myricated-:, flowers very small. 
Peninsula, Bengal. Flowering in February and March. There 
are one or two varieties characterized’ by tubergled or muricated 3- 
spined fruit. 
