352 XCII. SCROPHULARIACEH (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). [ Limosella. 
32. LIMOSELLA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii, 958. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, subrotate-cam- 
panulate; limb 5-fid, spreading; lobes rounded or ovate-oblong, 
imbricate, subequal, Stamens 4, affixed to the corolla-tube, usually 
shortly exserted ; filaments filiform; anthers 1-celled by confluence. 
Ovary shortly 2-celled at the base, the septum disappearing above ; 
style short, incurved and thickened at the apex; ovules many. Capsule 
subindehiscent or at length 2-valved; valves entire. Seeds small, 
ovoid, striate, somewhat rugose.—Small czspitose creeping or floating 
glabrous herbs, stemless or with stolon-like stems. Leaves radical or 
fascicled at the nodes, rarely alternate on some of the branches ; petiole 
long; blade linear like the petiole or oblong-ovate or spathulate. 
Pedunceles axillary, often shorter than the leaves, ebracteate. Flowers 
lilac, white or pale rose, usually small. 
Species 6 or 7, 2 of which are widely distributed in all temperate regions ; 3 are 
limited to Tropical and South Africa, and 1 to Australia. 
Corclla-lobes distinctly shorter than the calyx. 
Very slender; blade of the leaf up to # in. long; 
peduncles 1-12 lin. Jong . é . . . 1. ZL. aquatica. 
Stouter; blade of the leaf up to 1% in. long; 
peduncles 3-24 in. long . : 4 3 . 2. L. maior. 
Corolla-lobes as long or nearly as long as the calyx . 3. L, capensis. 
1. L. aquatica, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed.i. 631. A small tufted glabrous 
annual aquatic or marsh herb, often producing stolons bearing one or 
more tufts of leaves and rooting at every tuft, sometimes with branches 
having alternate leaves. Leaves usually in radical tufts, erect, suberect 
or floating, very variable in size and shape, narrowly spathulate to 
broadly oblong, sometimes linear ; blade 14—9 lin. long, }—5 lin. broad, 
obtuse, entire; petiole 4-4 in. long, usually very slender. Flowers 
axillary, solitary ; peduncles 1-12 lin. long, erect or suberect in flower, 
often deflexed in fruit. Calyx about 1 lin. long; teeth broader than 
long, minutely apiculate. Corolla lilac, white or pale rose, slightly 
longer than the calyx ; lobes spreading, ovate-oblong, about lin. long. 
Capsule subglobose, about 14 lin. in diam.—Benth. in DC. Prodr. x- 
426; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 122; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 378; Hiern in Dyer, FI. Cap. iv. ii: 356, with synonymy ; Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 99; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 288; Reichb. Ic. Fl- 
Germ. xx. t. 1722, fig. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 9800-10800 ft., Mann. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre; Adowa, Schimper, 1063! Samen; Mount 
Silke, Schimper, 1302! Mount Bachit, Schimper, 757! and without precise locality, 
Schimper ! 
Cosmopolitan. 
Var. tenuifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. ii. 334. Stolons usually absent. Leaves 
narrowly linear or subulate, terete or somewhat compressed, without dilated blade.— 
Journ. Linn. Soc. vi.19 ; Hiern in Journ. Bot. 1901, 336, t. 426, fig. C, with synonymy, 
and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 357. L. tenuifolia, Wolf. ex Hoffm. Deutschl. Fl. ed. 2; 
i, II. 29; Berth. in DC. Prodr. x, 427, 
