Lindenbergia,] cir. scRoPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 263 
from Jamu to the Nilgherries and Tenasserim ; not seen from Ceylon or Malacca.— 
Distris. Affghanistan, Burma. 
Annual, 4-10 in. high, brittle. Stem sometimes simple with all the flowers 
solitary in the axils of large leaves, at others branched, the branches running ont 
into leafy racemes. Leaves 1-1} (rarely 24) in. long, membranous ; petiole 3-3 in. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx à in., lobes recurved. Corolla twice as long, 
sparsely hairy, yellow. Capsule hairy above the middle. 
15. ADENOSMA, Dr. 
Annual, villous or glandular, aromatic herbs. Leaves opposite, rugose, 
crenulate. Flowers axillary or in leafy spikes racemes or heads, bracteolate 
ornot. Sepals 5, sometimes very large in fruit. Corolla-tube cylindric ; 
upper lip erect, entire or notched ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, base not plaited. 
amens 4, didynamous, included ; anther-cells separate, stipitate, one cell 
of all the anthers, or of the two anterior anthers only empty. Style dilated 
at the tip, winged below the entire or 2-lamellate stigma. Capsule ovoid 
ellipsoid or lanceolate, 2-grooved, loculicidal and septicidal, 4-valved. Seeds 
many, minute, reticulate.— Species 8 or 9, Asiatic, Malayan and Australian. 
* Flowers axillary ; outer fruiting sepals very large, cordate or ovate. 
l. A. ovatum, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 949; puberulous or glabrate, 
leaves ovate obtuse crenate-serrate, flowers axillary sessile, 3 outer sepals in 
t very large cordate, 2 inner very small lanceolate. Herpestis ovata, 
Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30, and in Wall. Cat. 3896. H. javanica, Blume Biya. 
748. Pterostigma ovatum, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 380; Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat. ii, 678. 
MALAY PENINSULA; from Tenasserim, Griffith, to Malacca, Wallich.—DrsTRIB. 
Sumatra, Java, Borneo. . . 
Branched from the base, black when dry; branches 6-18 in., often rooting below, 
ascending. Leaves 1-1} in. base cuneate or subcordate ; petiole } in. Fruiting 
sepals i-i in., membranous, reticulate, pubescent ; small equalling the lanceolate 
2. A. subrepens, Benth. in Gen. Pl.ii. 949; sparingly hirsute, leaves 
pute crenate, 3 outer sepals in fruit large ovate-lanceolate, 2 inner subulate. 
tostigma subrepens, Thwaites Enum. 426. 
CEYLON; Pasdoon Corle and Nana Welle-Galle, Champion, Thwaites. 
ery near to 4. ovatum, but a coarser, larger, more hirsute plant, with narrower 
fruiting sepals, 
** Flowers racemose, spicate or capitate ; upper fruiting sepal lanceolate, 
8. A. eceruleum, Br. Prodr. 443 ; erect, viscidly hirsute, leaves ovate- 
Subulate simply or doubly crenate, spikes long, flowers blue, upper pri 
2 lanceolate, theotherslinear. Benth. Fl. Austral. iv. 484. A- i 2 , 
nth. in Wall, Cat. 3851. Pterostigma villosum, Bent. Scrop . dn rainy 
ed m DC. Prodr, x, 380 (in part); Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 678. ki eth, 
in y Notul. iv. 96, and Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 417, f. 3. Stemodia coerulea, 
C.l. e. 381. Herpestis lanuginosa, Blume Bijd. 747. ini 
Si ASIA Mrs., alt. 0-4500 ft., Wallich, Clarke. CACHAR, Keenan. 1 Taxas , 
INGAPORE, and Maracca, Wallich, &c.—DisTRIB. Java, Borneo, : tiole j-1 in. 
C Stem 1-2 ft., strict, Leaves 14-24 in., base rounded or cordate; pe 
*rolla blue, Fruiting calyx } in. long ; sepals variable in width. 
