1898.] Cr. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malaifan Peninsula. 3 
irregularly breaking up, or cii'ciimsciseilo. Seeds many, smalt, smooth, 
round on the back and with a raphe on the inner face, ellipsoid or nearly 
hemifsplieric J plat'euta uUimafcely free central by the absoi-ption of the 
dissepiments covered by the seeds. Distiub, Species 30 ; in the tropi- 
cal or warm temperate zones of the whole world. 
Flowers sessile, oaIjx>tabe elong'JDtte'CfinipanDlatfl, capsmle 
elJipsoidj seeds naiTiJwly ohlodg, ftilcato ... L A, peploidea. 
P'lowera peflicelled, calyJt-tube Tlepreased-bemiiiphfiric, cftp- 
Bulo dcpmaaed-gluboBe, Heoda snb-heiiiiepherio.*. ... 2. A, baceifera, 
1. Ammania pkpt.oipbs, Spreng;. Syst. I» 444. Fhwers in short 
Exillary branches, aessiie, solitary in the axils of reduced leaves ; bracta 
in pairs, filiform, shorter than the tube of the ctilyx. Calyx-tuhe elon- 
gate-cam pan nl ate, almost smooth, its month with 4 acntely ti-iangtilfur 
teeth, Fetah absent, or 4 and minute. Capsule 2-valved, ellipsoid ; 
feeds nan-owly oblong, sub- falcate, pink, angular, the hilnm obscure. 
heav&s opposite, their midribs prominent; those of the flower-bearing 
branches linear-oblong, bearing a flower in the axil of each ; tliose 
of the main stem eiUiptic or oh o vato, naiTo wed to the base and almost 
petiolate. Steins decumbent, often rooting, sometimes erect. Boiss. 
Flor. Orient. IT, 742; Knrz in Journ. As. Son. J877, pt. II, 84; Clarke in 
Hook. fii. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 566. A. nana, Roxb. Flor. Ind. 1,427, (not 
of Wallich). A, repens, Rofctl., DC. Prodr. Ill, 80. Ameletia indicay 
DC. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Getiev. Ill, 11 (1825) 2, and 82, t. 3 f. A. ; 
Pi odr. Ill, 7(J; Wall. Cat. 2093; W. ife A. Prodr. 303; Blume Mus. 
Bot. rt, 13.% t. 47 J Daiz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor, 96 ; Wight Ic. t. 257. 
ehngata, Blome Mae. Bot, II, 135. ^i. actttidens^ Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 
I. Pt. I, 617. A. pohjsifuihya, Wall. Cat. 2094. A. laiifoUa, Wall. Cat. 
2096, (partly Peplis indica,) Willd. Sp. PI. II, 2'i4. 
SouTFT Andaman ; near the sefctlemeats of Port Blair and Poi-t 
Mowat; doubtless introduced as a weed of cultivation, DiSiRiB. India, 
China, Persia ; in rice and other fields. 
2. Ammannia BACCiPEBA, Linn. Sp. PI. 120. Flotvers in very con- 
densed axillary racemes or clusters shorter than the leaves; bracts 
filiform,- shorter than the flower-pedicels. Calyx-tube widely canijjanu- 
late, short, ridged ; the teeth 4, broadly triangular, acute. Petals none 
or minnte. CapsuU depressed-globose, imperfectly circumscissile above 
the middle. Seeds sub-bemisphenc, black, excavated on the plane face. 
Leaves oppositej rather distant, linear-oblong, sub-acute or obtuse, 
narrowed at the base, smaller upwards, 2-5 in. long. Stew ei-ect, 
glabrous, 8-24 in. long. Blume Mus. Bot, Liugd. But. II, 133 j Ualz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 97 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, Pt. II, 85 ; Clarke 
in Hook, fi I. Flor. Br. Ind. II, A. veskatoria, Hoxb. Hort. Beng. 11 
