(Enothbea.] ONAGBACEM. 357 



Stems prostrate or decumbent at the base, 8-24- in. long, glabrous. Leaves 

 2-3 in. long, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, tapering to the base. Flowers 

 sessile, l-merous. Petals lanceolate, longer than the calyx. Capsuhy 

 |-1 in. long, 4-angled, filiform, crowned by the linear calyx-teeth, rarely 

 inflated, the walls drawn tightly over the seeds so that they can be 

 separately counted. Seeds in a single row in each cell. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble), Eohilkhand (Duthie). Disteib. Assam, Sylhet, 

 Burma, Ceylon, Andaman Islands and Malaya ; also in Japan. This 

 greatly resembles the preceding, but the very different capsule and the 

 arrangement of the seeds at once distinguish it. 



3. (ENOTHERA, Linn. 



Herbs, ravely undershrubs. Leaves alternate, entire toothed or 

 pinnati-fid. Flowers axillary, solitary or in leafy spikes or racemes, 

 regular, hermaphrodite, often very showy. Calyx-tube linear or 

 clavate, 4-gonons, produced above the ovary, limb 4-lobed, deciduous. 

 Petals 4. Stamens 8, equal or the alternate ones shorter ; anthers 

 linear. Ovary 4-celled ; style filiform, stigma capitate, entire or 4- 

 lobed ; ovules many, inserted at the inner angle of the cells in 1-2 

 series, horizontal or ascending. Capsule usually 4-celled5 oblong or 

 clavate, 4-gouous and sometimes winged, splitting from the apex into 

 4 septiform valves or indehiscent. Seeds usually many, — Species 

 upwards of 100, inhabiting chiefly temp. N". and S» America. 

 <E. rosea, Soland. ; F. B. I. ii, 582. 



An erect herb about 1 ft. high. Stems somewhat woody at the base, 

 terete, pubescent, reddish. Leaves ovate, narrowed at both ends, toothed, 

 often lyrate, prominently veined. Flowers solitary in the axils. Petals 

 orbicular, pink with darker coloured veins. Capsule 5-^ in. long, clavate, 

 sharply angled, puberixlous. 



A native of Peru- Its introduction to India must have taken place within 

 a comparatively recent period, as neither Roxburgh, Eoyle or Wight have 

 alluded to the plant. It has now completely established itself as an 

 abundant weed on the outer ranges of the W. Himalaya, as well a- on 

 the Nilgiri Hills. It also occurs in Dehra Dun. 



4. TRAP A, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 590. 



Aquatic herbs. Stems long, flexuose, ascending in the water, the 

 more submerged portions giving off at intervals p^irs of green pecti- 

 nate spreading organs from below the margins of the scars of fallen 

 leaves. Leaves floating, alternate, approximate in the form of 

 rosettes, rhomboidal, the petiole with, a spongy dilatation near its 

 apex. Stipules small, caducous. Flowers axillary, solitary, pedun- 

 cled. Calyx-tube short, adnate to the lower part of the ovary ; limb 



