1902,] G- King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penimula. 69 
Fl. 15; Kurss m Journ. As. Soc. Beng/1877, Pfc, II, 110 : Clarke io 
Hook* fil. FL Br, Ind. II, 6^9. S. repens, WHld. Enum.p. 511 ; DC. Prod, 
III, 453 i W. &A, Prod. Fl Pen. Ind. 361; Wight m Hook. Comp. 
Bot. Mftg. II, 71, t, 23 ; Miq. Fl. Iiid. Bat I, Pt. I, 1060, Psammanthe 
marina, Hanc© in Walp, Ann. II, 660. Orithmum indicum, Rampli. 
Herb. Amb. VI, t. 72, fig. 1. 
Ob the sea shores in the Andamans and the other Provinces. — 
DrsTBiB. B. India, Malayan Archipelago. 
2. MoLLUGO, Linn. 
Herbs, branched, often dichotomous. Leaves often falaely wborled^ 
or alternate p or all radical, from linear to obovate, entire ; stipnles 
fagaoioQS. Flowers axillary, sessile or pedicelled, clustered or in pani- 
cles OF racemes, small, greeniab ; bracts inconspicuous.. Sepals 5, per- 
sistent. Petals O't staminodeg 0 or Bmall iE the same species. Stamens 
5-3, rarely many. Ovary free^ globose or ellipsoid, 3-5-celled ; sty lea 
3-5, linear or very small; ovnlea 'many, axile. Gapmh membi-anous, 
sheathed by the sepals, 3'5-celled, dehiscing dorsally. Seeds several in 
each cell, rarely 1, reniform, appendaged or not at the hilum ; embryo 
annular. — Distrib. Species 12, tropical and subtropical. 
MoLLVoo PENTiPHYLLA, Linn. Spec. Plantar, ed. 1 (1753), 89, A 
few inches high, glabrous; stems much-branched, leafy, varying from 
oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate-acute to obovate-obtcise, contmcted at the 
base, siibsessile or sessile, from leaa than *5 in. to more than 2 in. 
in length. Panides compound, terminal, many times longer than the 
leaves. Sepals elliptic or rotund, blunt. Stamens 3 to 5, sboi-t j fila- 
ments rather broad, compressed, Capmde globose, as long'asthe sepals, 
thin- walled, many seeded. Seeds dark-brown, tubercled ; embryo curved. 
W. & A, Prodr, 44 ; Dalz. & Gibs, Bomb. FL 16 ; Kurz in Journ. As. 
Soc. 1877, Part II, 111. M. triphyUa, Lour. Fl. Cochinc. 79 j DC. 
Prodr. I, 392 ; Roxb, Hort. Betig. 9, PI. Ind. I, 360 ; Wall. Cat. 651; W. 
& A. Prodi-. 44. If. Linkii^ Serin go in DC. I.e. M. stricta^ Linn. Sp. 
PI. ed. 11,131; DC. Prodr. I, 391; Eosb. I.e. ; WhIL Cat. 6h0; W. 
& A. Prodr. U; Dab. & Gibs. I.e. ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
II, 663 : Pharnaceum strictum, triphyllnm and pentaphyllum^ Spreng. 
Syst. I, 949.~Rheede Hort, Mai. x. i 26. 
In all the Provinces, near cultivated places.^ — Disthib. General 
throughout S, E. Asia. 
Order LV. UMBELLIFER^. 
Herbs (rarely in non- Indian species shrubs or trees). Learns alter- 
nate, usually divided or diasected, sometimes simple, petiole generally 
