270 cm. soROPHCLARiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Limnqphila. 



Flooded grounds in the S. Dbooait, Sottler, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft. long, slender, erect or ascending from the long floating portion which 

 is densely clothed with the dissected leaves. Leaves, upper ^1| in., from narrow linear 

 to oblong, 3-5-nerved ; in small specimens 4-8 in. high all the leaves are pinnatisect. 

 Spikes sometimes divaricatingly branched, 2-6 in. long ; bracts ovate, usually shorter 

 than the flowers. Calyx f in., quite glabrous, fruiting hemispheric ; lobes ovate, 

 acuminate, not striate. Corolla much lodger than the calyx, white. Capsule globose, 

 as long as the calyx. ' 



17. Xi. sessiliflora, Slums Bijd. 750 ; stem 4-8 in. slender hirsute 

 above rarely glabrate, leaves 3-6 in a wiorl all lobnlate or pinnatisect or 

 the uppermost very rarely opposite and entire, flowers axillary solitary 

 sessile or very shortly pedicelled, fruiting calyx hemispheric mem.branous 

 not striate, lobes ovate long-acuminate. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25, and in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 389 ; Miqtiel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 683 ; Wall. Cat. 3902. Hottonia 

 sessiliflora, Vahl Symh. ii. 36. 



Throughout India, in rice-fields and swamps, from the Punjab to Bengal, Central 

 India, Chittagong. Cexion, common. — Distbib. Java, Japan. 



Leaves rarely more than } in. long, irregularly pinnatifidly gashed or pinnatisect, 

 but not capillaceo-multifid, or rarely so. Sepals with long points. Corolla J in. long. 

 Capsule orbicular, turgid, ^ in. diam. — This strongly resembles a sessile-flowered form 

 of L. gratioloides, or a short pubescent form of L. heterophylla wanting the 

 multifid submerged leaves. Bentham's L. gratioloides var. myriophylloides seems 

 more akin to this ; it is a Ceylon plant with tufted creeping stems and roots, erect 

 rigid branches 4-8 in. high, densely clothed with whorls of short capillaceo-multifid 

 rigid leaves, giving a cylihdric form to the branches, which are |-1 in. diam. The 

 flowers are sessile or pedicelled iu the upper axils. The uppermost leaves are some- 

 times entire. 



18. Ii. Ueteropliylla, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25, and in BC. Prodr. x. 

 390; glabrous, stem elongate slender, uppermost leaves usually opposite 

 small sessile J-amplexicaul oblong crenulate, those next below 4-6 in a whorl 

 pinnatifid, the submerged long capillaceo-multifid, flowers axillary solitary 

 sessile or subsessUe, or the uppermost in a short leafy spite, fruiting calyx 

 hemispheric membranous not striate, lobes ovate shortly acuminate. Wall. 

 Cat. 3905 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 97, and Ic. PI. Asiat. 416, f. 2. L. Eoxburghii, 

 var. tenuior. Plant. Hohenach. 679, not of Don. Columnea heterophylla, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 97. 



Throughout India and Ceslon, in rice-fields and swamps. — ^Disteib. Borneo, 

 Japan, China. 



The much larger size, glabrous stem, abundant multifid leaves, frequent presence of 

 upper opposite and alternate small entire floral leaves, and the shortly acuminate 

 calyx-lobes distinguish this from L. sessiliflora, but there are a good many specimens 

 which in a dried state may be referred to either. 



Vab. reflexa; very slender, submerged leaves short J in. very finely divided, 

 lower pedicels longer than the calyx recurved in fruit. L. reflexa, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 25, and in DC. I. c. 389; Wall. Cat. 3904.— Tavoy, Wallich; Malacca, 

 Cuming, 



19. li.tillaeoides, -Hboi./; very small, 2-4 in. high, quite glabrous, 

 leaves all whorled ^j in. long upper pinnatifid lower multifid, flowers 

 numerous axillary solitary, pedicels shorter than the calyx recurved in fruit, 

 calyx not striate in fruit, lobes short triangular acute. 



Assam; banks of the KuUnng river, Simons. 



A small loosely tufted speC'ies, stem and branches slender but rigid, with the whorls 

 of leaves rather distant. Upper fljiwers sessile, lower pedicelled. Corolla j-J in. 



