158 



B,cute, all sessile, 3-nerved, rough on the margin alone ; panicle lax, 

 few-flowered ; flowers long-pedicelled, solitary ; pedicels 4-winged, 

 thickened upwards. Malwan, in grassy places ; flowers in ISep- 

 tember. 



3. Alata, Wall Cat. — Stem 4-winged above, below simple and 

 tetragonal ; leaves ovate-oblong, rather acute ; floral ones orbicular 

 or slightly kidney-shaped'; central flowers sessile, sometimes none ; 

 calyx with a semiovate wing. Near Vingorla. 



4. Diffusa, R. Br. Prod, p 451. — Stem ohsoletely winged; 

 very much branched ; leaves ovate-acute ; central flowers pedicelled, 

 sometimes wanting ; calyx wingless ; corolla pink or rosy. We have 

 failed to find any difference between C lawii (Wight Ic. 1327, 

 fig. 1,) and this species. Common in rocky parts of the Concan. 

 Syn. Pladera virgata, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 417 ; Exacum diffusum, 

 WiUd. 



6. LIMNANTHEMUM, Gmel. 



1. Ceistatum, Griseb. Gent, p 342. — An aquatic plant; leaves 

 cordate-orbicular, roughish above, glandular beneath; calyx seg- 

 ments ovate-lanceolate ; segments of the corolla waved-ciliated, 

 with a longitudinal crest within ; flowers white, cymose, inserted on 

 the jietiole ; capsule 1 \o 2-seeded; seeds muricated. Tanks in 

 the Concan. Syn. Menyanthes cristata, Roxb. Cor. ii, p 3, t. 105 ; 

 Villarsia cristata, Spr. syst. i, p 582 ; Hook. Jour, i, p 123 ; 

 Menyanthes indica, Bory. 



2. Indicum, Griseb. Gent, p 343. — Leaves cordate-orbicular, 

 membranaceous, roughish ; calyx segments ovate ; segments of the 

 corolla fringed on the margin, destitute of crest within ; flowers 

 •white ; arising from the petiole ; capsule many-seeded ; seeds 

 muricated. Tanks in the Concans and Deccan ; flowers white, rather 

 smaller than in the preceding. Syn. Menyanthes indica, Linn, 

 sp. PI i, p 207 ; Villarsia indica, Vent. Choix. p 9. 



3. AuRANTiAcuM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 136. — Umbels 

 axillary ; leaves small, orbicular, deeply cordate, shining above, 

 glandular dotted and ))urple beneath ; corolla orange-coloured, half 

 inch long ; segments of the limb wedge-shaped, broadly and deeply 

 emarginate, fringed on the margin, bearded at the base ; seeds 

 lenticular, muricated ; capsule ovate-obtuse, 12-seeded. Near 

 Malwan; flowers in September. 



4. Parvifolium, Griseb. in D(/. Prorl. 9, p 141. — A minute 

 plant; leaves cordate-orbicular, small (| inch) membranaceous; 

 petioles bearing the flowers, immediately below the leaf; capsule 

 many-seeded; seeds minute, rough. Very common in tanks, but 

 difficult to find, on account of its small size ; at Malwan, 

 Surat, &c. Syn. Villarsia parvifolia. Wall. Cat. 4351. 



