1902,] G. Kitig^ — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Faxvmtla. 
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secondary ridges abseot ; pericarp thiu, blackish. DC. Prodr, IV- 67 ■ 
Miq. FL Ind. Bftt. L Pt. X, 734 ] Kurz in Jouru. As. Soc. 1877, Pfc. II- 
113; Clarke in Hook fil. Fl. Br. lod. II, 667. E, hispida, Don Pradr. 
183. H. mpakmis. Hook. Exot. Fl. L 30 ; Wall. Cat 561 ; DC. I.e. 65 j 
Miq. I.e. 735, S. seylanim, DC. Ic. 67; W. & A. Prodr. 366; Miq. 
Lc. 734 B:. hirsuia, Bliime Bijd. 884, E. polycepliala, W. & A- Prodr, 
366 } Wight. Ic. t. 1003. M, hirta, R. Br. var. actdikha, F. Mnell, ; 
Beuth. FL Anetral. III. 340. H. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 563, H. strigmat 
Ham.. in Wall. Cat. 7219. 
Peras ; and probably in all the other provinces except the Anda- 
man and Nioobor Islands, — Disiaia, The Malay Ai'chipelago, Australia, 
Philippines. 
2. Hydrocottle A8UTICA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 234. Leaves rotund-reni- 
form, the margins not lobed bat uniformly crenate or dentate, some- 
times sub-entire, '5 to 2 in, broad. FeduncUs short, often 2 or 3 together. 
Petals obtuse, imbricate. Fruit compressed, secondary ridgea prominent, 
pericarp thickened. Roxb, Hort. Beng. 31 : Fl. Ind. II, 88 ; Wail. Cat. 
560 i DC. Prodr. IV, 62 ; W. & A. Prodr. 366; Wight Ic. t. 565 j 
Dak, & Gibs. Bomb. FL 105; Kiirz in Journ. As. Sou. 1877, Pt. 11, 
113 I Clarke in Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind, II, 669, E. Wightiana, Wall Cat. 
7220, M. luridat Hanco in Walp. Ann. II, 690.— Bheede Hort. MaL 
X. t. 46. 
Andaman I SLA SDs J Perak. — DiSTfiiB. Tropical and sub-tropical re- 
gions. 
2. Erynoidm, LiuB, 
Spinoscent, glabroiis, erect, perennial kerbs (the Indian species). 
Leaves spinous- toothed, entire lobed or dissected. Flowers in simple 
beads, each bracteoJate; bracts whorled, apinnJose (in Indian species). 
Qalyx^tuhe covered with asceadiug hyaline scales ; teeth rigid, acute, 
FetaU whitish, narrow, erect, emarginate, scarcely imbricate. Frait 
ellipsoid, nearly cylindric : carpels dorsally siahcom pressed, snbconcave 
on the inner face ; primary ridges obtuse not prominent, secondary 0 ; 
vittaa in the primary ridges inconspicuous or 0, with some very slender 
scattered iu the endocarp : carpophore 0, Seed semi- terete, dorsally 
sabcom pressed, subconcave on the inner face. — Distrib. Species 100, 
temperate and tropical ; plentiful in Western Asia. 
Ebyngium FtETJDOM, Linn, Sp. PI. 232, {in part,) Erect, nnbranched 
below, dichotomously branched above. Leaves radical, obloug-oblan- 
ceolate, coarsely serrate, glabrous, 4 to 9 in. long and not more than 
1 in, broad. Bracts of inEorescence all spinous-toothed ; the lower 
deeply lobed ; the oppcr smaller (about 1 in. long), lanceolatCj not 
