""■Vahlia.] Lii. SAXIFRAGACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 399 





3. VAKZiZA, Thunb. 



. ' Annual or biennial herbs. Leaves opposite, entire ; stipules 0. Floioers ax- 

 illary, usually geminate, subsessile or pedicelled. Calyx-tube entirely adberent 

 toth^ ovary ; lobes 5, valvate, persistent in fruit. PetMls 5, epigynous. Stamens 

 o,epigynoiis. Ovary inferior, 1-celIed, with 2 pendulous many-ovuled placentas ; 

 %le8 2, stigma capitellate. Capsule dehiscing at the apex between the styles. 

 Seecfe numerous, minute, ellipsoid, smooth. — Distrib. Species 3; in tropical and 

 subtropical Asia, and in tropical and South Africa. 



^^'ip V. viscosa, Roxb. FL Ind, ii. 89; flowers subsessile geminate orsoli- 

 wy in nearly all the upper axils, filaments with a minute hairy scale at the 

 !«se. ,. W. 8f A. Prodr. 364 ; Wight Ic. t. 663 ; H.f, i^- T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 ^7i ; Bah. ^ Gibs. Bomb, FL 90 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 383. " V. sessiliflora, 

 WaU. Cat. 7188; DC Prodr. iv. 54. V. \Yeldenii, Reich. Hart. Bat t. 91 ; DC 

 ^r. iv. 53. Bistella geminiflora, Delile Cmturie PL d:Afnq. No. 91, with a 

 JVj^re. . Oldenlandia digyTia, Retz Obs, iv. 23. 



^- Dry places of Ikdia, from Ceylon to Bundelkund and the Punjab, frequent. — 

 ^mm. Persia, Egypt, tropical Africa, 

 ulandular-pubescent. Stem 6-12 in. high, erect or diffuse, branched. Leaves 



K ^^;^?°S' subsessile, oblong, narrowed at both ends, ovate or lanceolate. Petals 

 ^oiit 6 in. long, white (ex Roxb. yellow), obovate. Stamens and styles about ^ in, 

 fT^A^^^^ Indian specimens, these parts much larger and the filaments pubescent in 

 ^^?^rican va'r. WeldeiiiL Capsule about ^ in. diam., subglobose.— This and the suc- 

 ceeding species when in fruit must be carefully distinguished from Oldenlandia which 

 ,. ^^^ capsule completely 2-celIed. The leaves of Vahlia have often a connecting 



me as if falsely stipulate. Mitreola which differs by its single style is also mixed with 

 ' (ihlxa in Herbaria. . 





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i;*:4 V. oldenlandioides, Roxb. FL Ind. ii.89; peduncles ^ in. long 

 ^OffiL nearly all the upper axils mostly 2-flowered, filaments naked at the base. 

 ;^ • % A. Prodr. 364 ; Wight IlL t. 115 ; Ic. t. 562 ; K.f.^ T. in Jaum. Liyin. 

 *-oc. u. 74 . Qii^^ pj y^^ ^r jj 3g4 y^ Oldeulandiie, DC. Prodr. iv. 54 ; 



.!».««. Cat. 7187. V. silenoides, DC Prodr. iv. 64. 



V. silenoides, DC Prodr. iv. 64. 



:^ Tropical dry portion of the Western Peninsula and Cetlon ; Shuter, Perottet, 

 Roxburgh, Wight, &c.— Distrib. Tropical Africa. 



^ Glandular-pubescent upwards. Stem 3-12 in. high, erect or difiuse, branched. 

 ^►a»«Aio;^ i._. ,. ._ (7^/yx-^6e5 not exceeding the 



le about i in. diam., subglobose. 



tub^** ir^ ^^* ^^"S' subsessile, linear or linear-ovate. Calyx-hbes not exceeding the 

 ®' Petals about ^ in. long, w^hite, obovate. Capsu 



4. TIABISZ.X.A 



^v^^f^fier erect herbs ; root perennial.' Leaves alternate ; radical loug-petioled 



**ltn Jart/p a+;^„l J 'x. ^_ V^_ i»_-x.* I^. „x* „1„^ ^r „^rx«*. l^^ox-aa amoll P/r- 



att^t^^ Omry 1-celled of 2 carpels ending in two styles ; ovules numerous, 

 and d V ^-^^^ nearly basal placentas. Ripe carpels very uneqiial, diverging at top, 



^^Qehiscmg ventraUy. ^ee</s 6-16, _- _ . . 



Ame' ^^* ^P^^i^s 5, one Himalayan and Japanese; the other 4 x\orth 



r^». polyphylla, Z)a?^ Prodr. 210; stem-l§av^, several all petioled 

 ^'*'*^eK)vate aubpeutagonal crenate-serrate, petals small linear pr Oj^ fruit cernuous 



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