POPS Ran ee ee GUT 
_Stemodia. } CIII. SCROPHULARINEZE. (J. D. Hooker.) 265 
16. STEMODIA, Linn. 
, Character of Adenosma, but anther-cells all polleniferous. Leaves some- 
times whorled. Seeds ellipsoid, terete, black or brown, most minute.— 
Species about 26, American, African, Asiatic and Australian. 
_ 1. S. viscosa, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 33, t. 163, and Fl. Ind. iii. 94; erect, 
viscidly pubescent, leaves sessile oblong base cordate serrulate, flowers 
pedicelled axillary and in terminal racemes, corolla twice as long as the 
. calyx. Wall. Cat. 3929; Benth. Seroph. Ind. 24, and iu DC. Prodr. x. 381; 
Wight Ic. t. 1408; Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 176. S. maritima, Heyne in 
Wall. Cat. 3931. S. arvensis, Steud. Nomencl. 
From CENTRAL INDIA and the Soane river throughout the DECCAN.—DISTRIB. 
Affghanistan, 
Erect, branched from the base, 6-18 in. high, aromatic ; stem angular. Leaves 
4-2 in., rarely ovate or obovate, sometimes very small throughout the plant; floral 
bracts shorter than the pedicels. Flowers very numerous, nearly } in. long, 2-brac- 
- teolate; pedicels equalling or exceeding the calyx. Sepals lanceolate, acute, half as 
long as the violet corolla. Capsule 3-4 in. long, equalling the calyx, acuminate, 
2. S. serrata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 381; erect, viscidly pubescent, 
leaves sessile obovate-oblong acute serrulate, flowers subsessile axillary, 
corolla one-half longer than the calyx. Sutera serrata, Herb. Hochstett. 
The Coxcax, Stocks, Law.—DrsTRIB. Nubia, Upper Nile and Senegambia, 
A robust leafy annual a foot high and under, usually densely branched from the 
base; stem obtusely 4-angled. Leaves }-2 in., narrowed to the sessile base, entire 
below the middle. ` Flowers often in all the axils, smaller than in S. viscosa. Capsule 
i ear-oblong, 
17. LIMNOPHILA, Br. 
Glabrous or pubescent often marsh or water plants, aromatic and with 
_ transparent dots. Leaves opposite or whorled, toothed, cut, or the submersed 
. multifid. Flowers pedicelled or sessile, axillary, solitary or racemose or spicate, 
i lla- 
racteolate or not. Sepals narrow, subequal or the posterior larger. Coro 
tube cylindric, upper fip the outer in bud, suberect, entire or 2-fid ; lower 
Spreading, 3-fid, base not plaited. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; 
anther-celis usually separate Pad stipitate. Style deflexed at the tip, stigma 
shortly 2-lamellate. Capsule ovoid or oblong, septi- and loculi-cidal, valves 
earing placentiferous septa. Seeds numerous, small, angular, truncate, 
reticulate.— Species about 25, African, Asiatic and Australian. 
A very variable genus, the foliage and habit of the species depending upon the 
depth, &c., of the water in which they grow. 
. * Nerves of leaf pinnate, arching from the midrib. No whorled and 
binnatifid or multifid leaves. 
t Flowers sessileor subsessile (sometimes racemose in L. diffusa). Leaves 
Opposite very rarely 3-nately whorled. 
l. L. Roxburghii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 543, not of Bent. ; pubescent 
9r glabrous, leaves all opposite petioled elliptic or ovate obtuse or subacute 
_Crenulate coriaceous punctate beneath, nerves strong, flowers axillary sessile 
i finely 
M peduncled heads rarely solitary, calyx pubescent, lobes lanceolate 
‘Acuminate not striate in Lit. L menthastrum, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 
