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CLIV. NAIADACEJ2. 
[Nat as. 
var. angustifolia Rendle, l.c. 427, PI. xlii. 202. A weaker plant ; 
leaves narrower, tips nearly setaceous, teeth more conspicuous and 
fruit smaller. Hab. Singapore, Garden lake and ditches in great 
abundance. Distrib. Borneo. 
t (2) N. minor All. FI. Pedem. ii. 221; Hook. fil. l.c. 569; Rendle, 
l.c. 410, PI. xli. 105-115. N. ternata Griff. Notnlce , iii. 183; Ic. 
PI. As. t. 252. 
Leaves falcately recurved, base broad, toothed, -5 in. long; 
sheaths rounded truncate with prominent teeth, rarely auricled. 
Flowers solitary. Male sessile in an ellipsoid spathe with a short 
cylindric-toothed neck, perianth 2-lipped. Female flower nude; 
ovary ellipsoid; achene obliquely linear oblong, testa hard, brown, 
marked with scalariform rows of pits. Hab. Malacca (Griffith). 
Distrib. Europe, Temperate Asia, India, Burma. 
(3) N. Kingii Rendle, Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 415, PI. xli. Figs. 
126-131 and 422; Ridl. Mat. ii. 129. 
Branches long straggling ending in a dense bushy growth, 
internodes 1-25 to 1-5 in. long. Leaves over 1 in. long, tip 1- or 
2-toothed with numerous ascending teeth 16 to 19 on each edge, 
apex tipped with a dark brown spine; sheath broad with over- 
