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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Wall. Cat. 3906 ; Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 268. L. punctata, Bl. 
Bijdr. 750 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 388 ; Miq. Plor. Ind. Bat. II. 682 ; 
Maxim. Mel. Biol. IX. 406. Gratiola aromatica, Pers. Synops. I. 14. 
Ambulia aromatica, Lamk Encycl. Metk. I. 128. Rheede Hort. 
Malab. X. 6. 
Malacca : Griffith. Perak : King’s Collector ! Wray ! — Distrib. 
S.E. Asia generally, N. Australia. 
9. Limnophila sessiflora, Blume Bijdr. 750. A hirsute or rarely 
glabrate herb ; stem stoutish, 4 to 8 in. long. Leaves 3 to 6 in a whorl 
throughout all lobulate or pinnatisect, or the uppermost very rarely 
opposite entire, usually about - 4 to - 5 in. long. Flowers axillary solitary, 
sessile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx - 3 in. long, lobes ovate-aeuminate, 
tube in fruit membranous, hemispheric, not striate. Corolla -5 in. long. 
Capsule orbicular, turgid, -2 in. across. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25; Wall. 
Cat. 3902 ; DC. Prod. X. 389 ; Miq. Plor. Ind. Bat. II. 683 ; Hook. f. 
Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 270. Hottonia sessiliflora, Vahl Symb. II. 36. 
Kedah : Langkawi, in swamps, Curtis ! — Distrib. Throughout 
S.E. Asia. 
10. Limnophila heterophylla, Benth. ; var. rcflexa, Hook. f. Plor. 
Brit. Ind. IV. 270. A glabrous herb with a very slender elongated 
stem, 1 to 1-5 feet long. Leaves towards apex of stem usually opposite, 
small, rarely over -25 in. long, sessile, half-amplexicaul, oblong, margin 
crenulate ; followed by pinnatifid leaves 4 to 6 in a whorl, -5 in. long ; 
with below these submerged whorled and very finely capillary-multifid 
leaves, -5 in. long. Flowers axillary solitary, the upper sub-sessile 
passing into a short leafy spike, the lower pedicelled, with pedicels 
recurved in fruit and longer than the calyx. Calyx '25 in. long, lobes 
ovate, very shortly acuminate, in fruit not at all striate ; tube in fruit 
hemispheric, membranous. Corolla '4 in. long. Capsule sub-globose, 
■3 in. long. L. reflexa, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25 ; DC. Prod. X. 389 ; 
Wall. Cat. 3904. 
Malacca : Cuming. Kedah : Curtis 2103 1 — Distrib. (of variety,) 
Tenasserim : (of type,) throughout S.E. Asia. 
This variety differs from the type in having distinctly shorter submerged leaves, and 
distinctly longer pedicels to the lower flowers. 
11. Limnophila Griffithii, Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 271. A 
very small herb with creeping tufted stems, sending down long rigid 
roots and emitting many erect branches, 1 to 2 in. long, sometimes 
stout and stiff, sometimes slender and flaccid. Leaves -25 to - 35 in. 
long, usually densely whorled and imbricated, multifid. Flowers 
axillary solitary, on slender pedicels, - 35 to '5 in. long, that are deflexed 
