12 G. Kiug-^Materiah for a Flora of the Malat/an Fcnitimh. [No, 1, 
Biib-irregnlar. Calyx-tttbe wltolTy adnate to the ovary (half-adnate in 
Trapa)f\\mh with 2-5 valvate lobes, Pei!fl?s epigy noes, alteiuate with 
the calyx -lobee, rai-ely 0. Stantens aa many or twice m many aa the 
petals, itiserted with tliem. Ovary inferior (half-inferior in Tmpft)^ 
1- 6'Celled, most often 4-celled ; Rtylo 1, cylindric or Bubulatej stigma 
capitate or nearly 2-lolied or 4-M ; ovules one or many in each cell, 
persdalous or lialf-aseendidg, placentafi axile. Fruit Tarious, dehisceiit 
or indelvist-ent, inenibranous capsular or bony^ 1- or sevenxl-celled, 1 or 
00 -seeded. Seeds without albumen^ or iioirly so. Distrib. Species 800^ 
spread throughout the world, most abundant in tbe North Toiuperata 
Zone. 
Stamens twice as immoroQB nfl the calyx-lobes... 1. 3vmim\. 
Sbamena equal in Dumber to tha uiilyx-lobsii .„ ... 2, Li;dwigia. 
1. Jdssijea, Itinu, 
• Herbaceous or snfiFrnticose^ sub-aquatic. Leaves Bimpl©, alternate, 
usually tj II tire, Fl&wers white or yellow, solitary, axillary pedicel 
usually bibracteate at the apex, Cahjx-iuhe narrow^ only slightly 
« produceil above the ovary ; ita teeth 4f-6, acute, persistent. Petah 
epi^ytiotia. Stamens also epigynous;, twice as numerous as the petjils, 
Omrj/ inferior, 4-5-cellBd ; atyle simple, usually very short, the stigma 
4-or 5-Iobed ; ovules numerous, asile, in several vertical rows at the 
inner nnifle of each cell. Oajmih narrow, cylindric or angled, 4- or 6- 
celled, 8-lO-ribbed, dehiscing eepticidally. Seeds very nnmerous, with- 
out coiuft, UiSTRiB. Species 30, tropical^ chiefly American. 
JusaiiEA suFFRiiTico-SA, Liuu, Sp. Ph 555, Erect, branching, 1-4 feet 
high. Leaves lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or almost linear^ acute or 
atiuminaLe, narrowed to the haae, villons, pabescent or snb-glabrous, 
2- 3 in. long, and '25-75 in. broad, sessile or very shortly petioled. 
Flowers *5-"75 in. in diam., ou very short pedicels, the bracts small or 
foliaceoBS. Petals wholly yellow. Capsule linear, cyliridrio, 1-2 in, 
lougj merabranouHj not woody, 8-ribbed, deciduously villous or pubes- 
cent. Seeds sub-hemiKpheric J the testa with a prominent raphe, shining, 
brown, not corky. DC. Prodr. HI, 58; Wall. Cat. 6334 ; Miq. Flor. l»d. 
Bat. I, Pt. I, 628 ; Kurz in Jonm. As, Soc. 1877, Pt. II, 90 j Clarice in Flor. 
Br. Ind, II, 58L J. exalhila, Rosb. Hort. Beng. 33 ; Flor. Ind, II, 401. 
villom, Lamb. Diet. Ill, 331 j DC. Prodr. Ill, 57; Wall. Cat. 6333 j 
W, & A. Prodr. 336 ; Gibs. & Dak. Bomb, Flor, 98. /, fmiicosa, DC. 
1. c. /. scahra, Willd. j DC. I. c. /. Burmannif and octophila, DC. 1. o. 
X lon^ipps, Griff. Notul. IV, 689. J. decumhens. Wall Cat, 6322. 
/. angudifolia, Lamk. Diet. Ill, 331 and 111 t, 280, fig. 3 j DC. Prodr. in, 
55; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ly Pt. I, 627, Epilohium frutuosmut Lour. Flor. 
Cochin-china 226, Rheede Hort. Mai. II, t. 50. 
