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Koh Kong and Koh Saket, cast ashore or floating in the surface of the 

 water; Koh Chang near Lem Dan growing in shallow water on muddy ground. 

 Area: Red Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



Gentianaceæ. 



Limnanthemum G mel. 

 1. L. indicum (L.) Griseb., Genera et Species Gentianearum 1839; 

 Hook, f., Fl. of British India IV, p. 131. 

 var. siaiiiensis Ostf., no v. var. 



Leaves smaller, 2 — 5 cm. long, broadly obovate, deeply cordate 

 with obtuse lobes and a triangular sinus, rather thin; flowers few 

 (2 — 3) in the umbel; pedicels 3—4 cm. long; bracts ovate, obtuse, 

 about 5mm. long; lobes of the corolla 5, oblong, 10 — 15mm. long, 

 covered in the margins and above with numerous long cottony 

 papillose hairs, white with a yellow base; capsule?, seeds V. 



According to the above description it will be easy to see that this 

 little pretty Limnanthemum differs in some important points from the or 

 dinary L. indicum - but having only few flowers and no fruit at my dis- 

 posal I prefer to regard it as a variety of L, indicum, hoping that future 

 investigations will settle this point. 



Lem Ngob, in a small pond. 



Area: of the main species: from the Mascarene Islands throughout India, 

 Malaya, Australia to Fiji Islands. 



Nymphæaceæ. 



Nymphæa L. 



9. Ft stellata Willd. Spec. II, 1799, p. 1152; Hook, f., Fl. of British 

 India I, p. 1 14. 



The collected specimens belong to var. 1 . punctata Gaspary, Annales 

 Musei Botan. Lugdano-Batavi vol.11, 1865 — 66, p. 244, A, maculata Gasp., 

 ibid., a, coerulea Gasp., ibid. 



Abundant in pools near Lem Dan. 



Area: Egypt, Gordofan, Senegambia, Guinea, East Africa, Madagascar, In- 

 dia, Malaya. 



Nelumbo Adans. 



10. N. nucifera Gaertn., De Fructibus 1788 I, p. 73; j\ 7 . speciosum 

 Willd., Spec. II, 1799, p. 1258, Hook, f., Fl. of British India I, p. 116; 

 Nymphæa Nelumbo Linné, Spec. Plant. 1753. 



Gultivated everywhere throughout the area explored. 



Area: Persia, India, Malay Archipelago, Japan, China to Amur-river, Au- 

 stralia. 



