310 G. K'mg — Materials for a Mora of tlie Malayan Peninsula. [JTo. 1, 
the fifcyles equal in tmraber to the cells, airaple or finoly lobed; ovnlea 
4, (1 in Mippurm) petidalous. Fruit small, dry or drupaceous^ with 
cells as in the ovary, indGhiScenf-, or eeparafii\g inlo its component 
cai'pela. Seeds 4 or 1, Distrib. ; about 80 species, cosmopolitan, 
Tcrrcsfcrtal; frait I-ocilled, l-8Q0ded„. ... 1. HALOQi.(}is. 
Aquatic (floatingj; frait aeparating infco its component 
carpela ... ... 2, MTBtopHYLLUii. 
1. HaloiUGIS* Forst. 
Brandling herbs. leave* opposite, tli© tipper Bometimes alternate, 
toothed, rigid. Flowers minute, nearly ses^?ile in the axila of bracts, 
spicate or racemose, partially unisexual or herra«pLrodite, Calyx-tnhe 
4f-8-ribbed;»lobfea 4, erect, persistent, acute, valvate. Petals 4, coria* 
ceous, often wanting in the 9 . Stamens 8, epigynoua. Ovary 2- or 
4-celle(], with 4 pendulous ovules 5 stigmas 4 (in the females at leaiBt)^ 
sessile, feathery. Fruit a dry, 2— 4-celIed, 2-4-seeded nnt ; bat in tbe 
following species by abortion l-celled, l-seeded. Distrib, Species 40 ; 
Asia, Australia. 
Haloragis MiCJtANTHA, R, Brown in Flinders Voy. II, 550. A 
branching glabrous herb. Leaves opposite,, ovate, acute, denticulate ; 
the petioles very short, diminishitig in sike towards the inflorescence, 
Flotvers about 05 in,, on pedicels shorter than themselves, in teiTninal 
panicle-like racemes. Sepals triangulHr, much smaller than the petals. 
JFrwii shining, 8>rib bed, about '05 in. long, 1-celled, l-seeded. Clarke 
in Hook, Flor. Br. Ind. II, 430 ; Benth. F1. Austral. II, 482. S. teneUu, 
Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 68. GonocarpJiS micranikus^ Thunb, Fi, Jap. 
t. 15 ; DC. Prodr, III, 66. Qoniocarpus micranthus. Keen, & Sims Ann. 
Bofc. r, 546, t. J2. 
At elevations of about 5000 feet on the Perak Central Range P 
DtSTRin, Malaya, China, Australia and Kow Zealand. Khasia moun- 
tains ; at elevations of from 5000-7000 feet. 
I iDctado this aa a PetaU plant witi somo heattation. Scoi"t«chiiii's specimens. 
ar« not, uuw in tho Oalcutta. Her ban am, althoagli his field note is. 
2, Myeiophtllom, Linn, 
Glabrous, aquatic herbs. Leaves dentate-serrate or pectinate- 
pinufttifid, or entire, often whorled. Flowers small, sessile or nearly so, 
in the axils of floral leaves or in nearly naked spikes • monoocious or 
hermaphrodite. Male ; calyx-tube short, limb 2-4.fiti or 0 ; petals 2-4 ; • 
stamens 2-8. Fejiale ; calyx-tube deeply 4-f arrowed, limb 0 or of 4 
minute lobes ; petals minute or 0 ; ovary inferior, 4- or 2-celled ; stylos 
2 or 4, short, nsually recurved ^ the stigmas' plumose ; ovules solitary 
