270 CII. SOROPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker)  [Lémnophila. 
Flooded grounds in the S. DECCAN, Rottler, &c. . 
Stem 1-2 ft. long, slender, erect or ascending from the long floating portion which 
is densely clothed with the dissected leaves. Leaves, upper 3-13 in., from narrow linear 
to oblong, 3-5-nerved; in small specimens 4-8 in. high all the leaves are pinnatisect. 
Spikes sometimes divaricatingly branched, 2-6 in. long; bracts ovate, usually shorter 
than the flowers. Calyx ài in., quite glabrous, fruiting hemispheric ; lobes ovate, 
acuminate, not striate. Corolla much longer than the calyx, white. Capsule globose, 
as long as the calyx. 
17. L. sessiliflora, Blume Bijd. 750; stem 4-8 in. slender hirsute 
above rarely glabrate, leaves 3-6 in a whorl all lobulate or pinnatisect or 
the uppermost very rarely opposite and entire, flowers axillary solitary 
sessile or very shortly pedicelled, fruiting calyx hemispheric membranous 
not striate, lobes ovatelong-acuminate. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25, and in DC. 
Prodr. x. 389; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 683; Wall. Cat. 3902. Hottonia 
sessiliflora, Vahl Symb. ii. 36. 
Throughout INDIA, in rice-fields and swamps, from the Punjab to Bengal, Central 
India, Chittagong. CEYLON, common.—DisTRIB. Java, Japan. . 
Leaves rarely more than 4 in. long, irregularly pinnatifidly gashed or pinnatisect, 
but not capillaceo-multifid, or rarely so. Sepals with long points. Corolla à in. long. 
Capsule orbicular, turgid, 4 in. diam.— This strongly resembles a sessile-flowered form 
of L. gratioloides, or a short pubescent form of L. heterophylla wanting the 
multifid submerged leaves. Bentham’s Z. gratioloides var. myriophylloides seems 
more akin to this; itis a Ceylon plant with tufted creeping stems and roots, erect 
rigid branches 4-8 in. high, densely clothed with whorls of short capillaceo-multifid 
rigid leaves, giving a cylindric form to the branches, which are 3-1 in. diam. e 
flowers are sessile or pedicelled in the upper axils. The uppermost leaves are some- 
times entire. 
18. L. heterophylla, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25, and in DC. Prodr. x. 
390; glabrous, stem elongate slender, uppermost leaves usually opposite 
small sessile 3-amplexicaul oblong crenulate, those next below 4—6 in a whor 
pinnatifid, the submerged long capillaceo-multifid, flowers axillary solitary 
sessile or subsessile, or the uppermost in a short leafy spike, fruiting calyx 
hemispheric membranous not striate, lobes ovate shortly acuminate. | all. 
Cat. 3905; Griff. Notul. iv. 97, aud Ic. Pl. Asiat. 416,1. 2. L. Roxburgh, 
var. tenuior, Plant. Hohenack. 679, not of Don. Columnea heterophylla, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 97. of Don. Column p 
Throughout INDIA and CEYLON, in rice-fields and swamps.—DISTRIB. Borneo, 
Japan, China. 
The much larger size, glabrous stem, abundant multifid leaves, frequent presence of 
upper opposite and alternate small entire floral leaves, and the shortly acuminate 
calyx-lobes distinguish this from Z. sessiliflora, but there are a good many specimens 
which in a dried state may be referred to either, . 
VaR. reflexa; very slender, submerged leaves short à in. very finely divided, 
lower pedicels longer than the calyx recurved in fruit. L. reflexa, Benth. Seroph. 
Ind. 25, and in DC. L c. 389; Wall. Cat. 3904.— Tavoy, Wallich; Malacca, 
Cuming. 
19. L. tilleeoides, Hook. f.; ve in. hi ite glabrous, 
A -Jf-; very small, 2-4 in. high, quite gla 
leaves all whorled 3-2 in. long upper pinnatifid lower multifid, flowers 
numerous axillary solitary, pedicels shorter than the calyx recurved in fruit, 
calyx not striate in fruit, lobes short triangular acute. 
Assam; banks of the Kullung river, Simons. 
A small loosely tufted species, stem and branches slender but rigid, with the whorls 
of leaves rather distant, Upper flowers sessile, lower pedicelled. Corolla 4-4 ™ 
