558 CLXvii. LEMNACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Wolfia. 



ix. 26S [not of Schleid.). Lemna arrhiza, Linn. Mant. 294. L. globosa, 

 JRoxh. Fl. Ind. m. mh ; Grah. Oat. Bomb. PI. 252; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 281. Grantia globosa, Gnff. Notul. iii. 229 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 267, f. 2. 

 Bruniera vivipara, Franchet in Billot 1864, 25. 



Common, probably throughout India and Cetlon. — Distbib. Cosmopolitan. 



Of this Kurz distinguishes two Indian varieties, a larger, Delili {&rardia globosa. 

 Griff.), and a smaller with more cylindrio fronds, the Lenrna glolosa, Roxb. 



2. W, microscoplca; Kurz in Joum. lA/riM. Soc.^ ix. 265 ; frond flat 

 above, conical beneath and tapering into a root ? Hegelm. Lemnse, 127. 

 Grantia microsoopica. Griff. Notul. iii. 226 ; Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 266-268. 



Bengal, Griffith. 



Known only through GriflBth's description and drawings. 



OsDER CLxviii. trxvrzdeh:. 



Slender, leafless, coloured annuals. Stem subsimple, filiform, with, a few 

 distant scales. Flowers unisexual, small, in terminal corymbs or racemes ; 

 pedicels decurved, bracteate. Perianth inferior, 6-8-partite or -lobed ; 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate or subulate, valvate in bud. Male pl. Sta/mens 

 2-6, hypogynous or perigynous, anthers free or immersed in a thick disk, 

 cells 2, confluent, slits extrorse ; pistillodes 3, subulate, or 0. Fem. fl. 

 Staminodes or few. Carpels many, sessile on a receptacle, 1-celled ; 

 style terminal lateral or basal, persistent ; stigma acute, clavate, or p'eni- 

 cillate. Ovules solitary, erect, anatropous. Achenes in a globose head, 

 obovoid, coriaceous or fleshy, nucleus hard, embryo not seen. — Genera 2, 

 tropical America and Asiatic. 



SCZAPKXKA., Blume. 



Perianth 3-8-partite or -lobed. Anthers sessile at the base of the 

 perianth. Style ventra'l or basilar. — Species about 14, Asiatic and 

 American. 



1 . S. erubescens, Miers in Proc. Linn. 8oc. ii. (1850) 74 ; in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxi. 48 ; raceme many-fld., perianth segments 6 broadly lanceo- 

 late naked style, clavate penicillate hardly longer than the ovary. TAw. 

 Enum. 294 ; Benth. in Hook. Joum. Bot. vii. (1855) 10. Aphylleia eru- 

 bescens. Champ, in Calcutt. Joum. Nat. Mist. vii. 468. 



Ceylon ; in shady woods at Galle, Champion ; Colombo, Ferguson. 

 ' ' Stem 3-4 in. Flowers J in. diam., hyaline, pale purplish, speckled with red 

 streaks ; pedicels ^ in. 



2. S. secundiflora, ITiw. ex Benth. in Hook. Joum. Bot. vii. (1855) 

 10 ; Fnum. 294 ; raceme secund, few-fld., perianth segments 6 subulate 

 acuminate naked, style clavate peniciUate hardly longer than the ovary. 



Cetlon; forests near Sittawake, Thwaites. 



Stem 6-14 in., purplish ; bracts broad, acute. Flowers monoecious, pedicel 

 Jj-i in. ; perianth about i in. diam. Anthers sessile, transversely oblong, white. 



3. S. jantUna, Tha. Fnum. 294; flowers long-pedicelled, perianth 

 segments 8 lanceolate, stamens 4, style subbasilar filiform much longer 

 than the ovary. Hyalisma janthina, Champ, in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. 

 vii. (1847) 466 ; Miers. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxi. 49. 



Teavakcoee ; Tinnevelly, Beddome. Cetlon ; in damp forests, Champion, 



