42S BUBIACEM, [Spebmaooce. 



membranoiis, albumen fleshy. Species 8 or 9, Indian, Malayan and 

 Australian. 



Stem softly villous all round, mericarps coalescing 



when ripe . ^ 1. K. corymbosa. 



Stem with 2 lines of pubescence, mericarps sepa- 

 rating when ripe 2. K» hrachycarpa. 



h K, corymhossL^Willd. 8jp. PI. i, 582; W. ^ A» Prod. 439; F. B. I. iii, 

 J2S ; Cooke Fi. Bomb, i, 605. Spermacoee exserta, Boxh. ; Fl. Ind. i, 367. 



An erect slender annual, 1-4 ft. high, softly hairy. Stem terete or 

 obscurely 4-angled, sparingly branched ; internodes long. Leaves 3-5 

 in. long, linear ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute, narrowed to the base 

 into a short petiole ; stipular bristles ^ in. Flowers in 3-chotomous 

 corymbose cymes, very small and shortly pedicelled, white or purplish. 

 Calyx*teeth minute, triangalar, subequal. Corolla clavate, its tube 

 hairy within ; the lobes short, sub-acute. Fruit ^ in. long, sessile or 

 nearly so, perforate at the base, arranged in secund spikes ; mericarps 

 when ripe closely united. 



JDehra Dun (Duthie) Bahraich district of N. Oudh (Duthie's collector). 

 Flowers at the end of the rainy season. Disteib. From Garhwal 

 eastward to Sikkim, up to 5,000 ft., and on the Khasia Hills ; 

 throughout tropical India to Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, China, and Trop. 

 Australia. 



2. K. brachycarpa, B. Br. in. Wall. Cat. 321 ; F. B. I. iii, 130. Sper- 

 anacoce Isevis, Roxh.; Fl. Ind. i, 368. 



An erect rather rigid herb, 2-4 ft. high. _ Stem with 2 lines of pubescence, 

 internodes long. Leaves sessile, 2-4 in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 minutely pubescent on the margins and on the nerves beneath, acute 

 or rounded at the base, pubescence of midrib continued down the 

 stem ; stipules pubescent, 3- or more-cleft, the upper often entire. Cymes 

 open or capitate, main branches pubescent in 2 lines, the smaller 

 puberulous, often tomentose when capitate. Floivers small. Calyx- 

 teeth minute, obtase, one larger than the others. Fruits short, didy- 

 mous, truncate. 



Tilibhit district in Eohilkhand and in N. Oudh (Duthie's collector). 

 DiSTRiB. Subtrop. Himalaya in Kumaon, Parasnath in Chota Nagpur, 

 Manipur, Pegu. The Oudh specimens have capitate cymes. 



22. SPERMACOCE, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 199. 



Herbs or low undershrubs ; branches usually square. Leave # 

 opposite ; stipules connate with the petioles into a broad trancate 

 iuoe with marginal bristles. Flowers small or minute, solitary or 



