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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Selangor : Ridley ! Perak : Scortechini ! Wray ! Malacca - 
Griffith ! Cuming ! Maingay ; Hervey ! Singapore : Cuming ! Wallich. 
— Distrib. Indo-China, Malaya, Australia. 
Scortechini notes on this, “ aromatic ; most likely introduced.” It appears, how- 
ever, to be native. 
6. Adenosma hirsutum, Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLV. 2. 143. 
A stout, erect, villous herb, 2 to 3 feet high. Leaves ovate or elliptic, 
sub-acute, serrate, base cuneate; blade 1 to 2 in. long, - 5 to - 75 in- 
wide ; petiole very short or 0. Floivers in dense cylindric or oblong 
heads, often ternate, usually peduncled, with closely imbricate hirsute 
leafy bracts ; peduncles sometimes 1-5 in. long ; heads 1 to 3 in. long, 
■75 to 1 in. wide ; bracts ovate-acute, serrate, ‘4 to ‘6 in. long. Calyx 
of 5 almost free villous linear sepals, -25 in. long. Corolla blue. Cap- 
sule ovate, abruptly beaked, as long as calyx. Pterostigma hirsutum, 
Miq. Elor. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 562. P. villosum, Miq. l.c. ( not of Benth.). 
Province Wellesley: Curtis 2238! Ridley 6977! Nicobars : 
Kamorta, Kurz ! — Distrib. Sumatra ( Teysmann 1157), Bangka ( Toys - 
mann 3429), Borneo ( Motley , n. 215). 
A coarser plant than A. capitatum, with leafy bracts throughout the spikes. 
4. Limnophila, B. Br. 
Herbs of marshes and pools, glabrous or pubescent, aromatic. 
Leaves with transparent dots, opposite or whorled, toothed or cut, 
when submerged frequently laciniate-multifid. Flowers solitary 
axillary, sessile or pedicelled, or passing into terminal spikes or racemes ; 
bracts leafy ; bracteoles small or obsolete. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes 
narrow, imbricate, all equal or the upper largest. Corolla 2-labiate 
upper lip outmost, sub-erect, entire or 2-fid ; lower spreading, 3-lobed ; 
throat not plicate ; tube cylindric. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; 
anther-cells all perfect, usually discrete, stipitate, occasionally con- 
tiguous. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each cell numerous ; style slender,, 
with deflexed tip and 2-lamellate stigma. Fruit an ovoid or oblong 
capsule, with both septicidal and loculicidal dehiscence, the placenti- 
ferous septum separating from the valves. Seeds many, minute, angular 
and truncate, reticulate. — Distrib. Species about 25, in the tropics of 
the Eastern Hemisphere and Australia. 
Leaves never pinnatifid above, very rarely so even on lower 
portion of stem : — 
Flowers sessile : — 
Leaves at least 1 in. long : — 
Leaves petioled, 2 to 3 in. long, pubescent or glabrous .. 1. L. Roxiurghii. 
