Limnophila.] cur. scRormuLARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 
long. Calyx hemispheric in fruit, membranous, Capsule broadly oblong, nearly as 
_ long as the calyx.—A very singular little species. 
| ""giniana, Linn. Sp, Pl. 25 (the 
1104. Hottonia indica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 208; Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 55, f.1. Hy- 
tt Flowers pedicelled, pedicels usually longer than the calya. 
20. L. racemosa, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 26, and in DC. Prodr. x. 390; 
stem 1-2 ft. stout erect, leaves sessile upper opposite or 3-nately whorled 
g-amplexicaul ovate or linear-oblon serrulate, lower capillaceo-multifid, 
flowers large usually in erect terminal racemes, calyx-lobes ovate acuminate, 
fruiting not striate. Wail. Cat. 3907; Wight Ic. t. 861; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl.177. L. Benthamiana, Miquel Plant. Hohenack. n. 71 c. „L. 
Roxburghii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 388, not of Don. Cyrilla aquatica, 
Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 47,t. 189, and FT. Ind. iii. 115. 
Pools, &c., in BENGAL; at Dinagepore, Clarke. Marwan; Mt. Aboo, Kurz. 
CCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON, common.— DISTRIB. Java. . 
Stem hirsute or glabrous. Leaves 1}-2 by }-} in. most minutely punctate 
beneath, nerves strong. Racemes 2-6 in., strict; pedicels 1-3 in., much longer than 
the bracts, Calyx } in.; lobes with slender points, fruiting membranous. Corolla 
lin. diam., 1-3 in., bluish or purple, fragrant. Capsule almost globose.— The upper 
part of this resembles Z, hypericifolia with pedicelled flowers ; some states are with 
difficulty distinguished from C. heterophylla, and small ones from L. gratioloides. 
M. X. gratioloides, Zr. Prodr. 442; glabrous, stem short erect or 
diffusely branched or elongate and slender, leaves all whorled and pinnatifid 
or à few upper entire and o posite, or upper pinnatifid and lower multifid, 
flowers axillary solitary pedicelled rarely subracemose, calyx hemispheric in 
fruit, lobes ovate acuminate not striate. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25, and in DC, 
Prodr. x, 389; Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. 447, t. 57, f. 1; Wall. Cat. 3901; 
Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 177; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 683. L. trifida, 
Spreng. Syst. ii. 802. L. myriophylloides, Roth Nov. Sp. 294. Gratiola 
iniana, "the Malabar plant), G. trifida, Willd. Sp. Pl. 
Topityon pedunculatum, Seringe in DC. l. c. i. 422. Columnea balsamea, 
Bort. Fl, Ind. iii, 97.— Hhcede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 85, and xii. t. 86. Burm, Fl. 
Zeyl. t. 55, f. 1. 
l Throughout INDIA, in swamps, rice-fields, &c.— DISTRIB. Beluchistan, Malayan 
‘nds, China, Australia, Tropical Africa. . . . 
In its most common form Pa simple or branched plant 4-8 in. high, smeliing of 
ntine, with whorled pinnatifid leaves, ł}-4 in. long, which in wetter places appear 
acquire a few emersed opposite entire leaves at the top of the stem, and numerous 
“apillaceo-multifid ones at its base. The stems are stout or slender, Very small 
dicimens from Rohilkund (Kuttra, Edgeworth) have very fine wiry simple stems 
'n. high, and capillary peduncles three times as long as the leaves; others have 
meat stems and peduncles, the latter shorter than the leaves. Calyx jj in. long, 
mrely larger, Corolla 4 in.—Large specimens of var. intermedia. approach L. race- 
*4; short-pedicelled ones are hardly distinguishable from Z. sessiliflora; and the a 
dos fa is almost identical with Z. heterophylla. Bentham's var. myriophylloi S 
not seem to me distinguishable from the common form of gratioloides. 
With AB. intermedia; stem robust, leaves all close-set, flowers sometimes were 
8t »PPOsite entire bracteal leaves.—N.W. India ; Moradabad, Thomson ; ul , 
and 4 Winterb. (L. Roxburghii i» Herb.); Subsiwaliks, Edgeworth; Kangra 
-— harmsala, alt, 3-4000 ft., Clarke. (Beluchistan, Stocks). ite 
- àR. elongata, Benth. in DC. l.c.; stem very long, upper mE opposite 
Oude > Submerged capillaceo-multifid. L. elongata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. , 
> Wallich; Moradabad, Thomson; Deccan, Heyne, &c. 
2. L. Grifüthii, Hook. f.; glabrous, stems densely tufted, branches 
