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LXI. ONAGRACE7E. 
827 
Aquatic floating plant; flowers white, centre yellow 
Terrestrial erect herbs; flowers yellow. 
Petals much shorter than sepals, small, rhomboid 
Petals large obovate clawed. 
Plant nearly glabrous; corolla 1-25 in. wide 
fruit narrow, cylindric 
Plant hairy. 
Corolla *75 in. wide; fruit thick cylindric 
Corolla 3 in. wide; fruit obconic, woolly . 
(1) J. repens 
(2) J. suffruticosa 
(3) J. erecta 
(4) J. villosa 
(5) J. speciosa 
(1) J. repens Linn. FI. Zeyl. 169; Sp. PL 555 ; Clarke , in Hook, 
ftl. F.B.l. ii. 587; Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 200, t. 40. 
A creeping or floating plant. Leaves obovate or oblanceolate; 
narrowed to the petiole 1*5 to 3 in. long, -2 to *5 in. wide, glabrous. 
Pedicels *5 to 1 in. long. Ovary as long. Flower 1 in. across. 
Petals white yellow at base, very caducous. Capsule -5 to 1-5 in. 
long, linear cylindric. Seeds quadrate, raphe corky. Hob. Ponds 
and ditches. Common. Singapore, Tanglin; Serangoon Road, 
Pahang, Pekan. Province Wellesley, Permatang Bertam. Penang. 
Bagian Jemmal (Curtis) ; Patalung (Gwynne-Vaughan). Kelantan, 
Kota Bharu. Dislrib. Whole tropics. 
(2) J. suffruticosa Linn. Sp. Pl. 555 (not of other botanists). 
J. fissendocarpa Haines, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv. 1919, p. 313. 
Erect branched glabrous herb, 1 to 2 ft. tall. Branches slender 
winged. Leaves lanceolate acuminate at both ends, thin mem¬ 
branous, *5 to 3 in. long, *25 to *5 in. wide ; petioles slender winged 
nearly to base. Pedicel and ovary -5 in. long. Sepals 4, very 
narrow lanceolate acuminate *i in. long. Petals shorter, -i in. 
long or less, rhomboid, base narrowed. Fruit cylindric, 75 in. 
long, -i in. through. Seeds in upper part ellipsoid, smooth, pale, 
in middle larger slightly corky, at base oblong, corky with a groove 
on one side, much larger. Hab. Damp spots by runnels and 
ditches. Singapore, Tanglin, etc., very common, to Kelantan, 
Chaning. Penang (Curtis). Dislrib. India, Siam, Christmas 
Islands, Philippines. 
(3) J. erecta Linn. FI. Zeyl. 170; Sp. Pl. 556 (excluding the 
S. American plants). J. angustifolia Lam. Diet. iii. 331; III. t. 
280, fig. 3. j. Blumeana DC. Prodr. iii. 55. J. Junghuhnii Miq. 
FI. hid. Bat. i. (1), 627. J. suffruticosa of Clarke and other botanists, 
not of Linnceus. 
Herb 1 to 3 ft. tall, glabrous or sparsely hairy especially on 
the young parts, fairly stout. Stem angled or slightly winged, 
simply branched. Leaves lanceolate-acuminate, long, narrowed 
to the base; nerves ascending, 14 pairs slightly elevate beneath 
and usually sparsely hairy 2 to 4 in. long, -25 to 1 in. wide. Ovary 
and pedicel *5 in. long. Sepals 4, ovate acuminate *12 to -2 in. long 
and increasing to *3 in fruit; nerves prominent, 3, hairy. Corolla 
1 in. across; petals obovate slightly emarginate clawed. Fruit 
oblong, obcuneate glabrous, broadest above, narrowed to base, 75 
