Herpestis. | CHI. SCROPHULARINER. (J. D. Hooker.) 273 
Wet places in northern India ; from the PUNJAB, ascending to 3000 ft., MALWAR 
and the Conoay, to BENGAL, Assam and SILAHET.— DISTRIB. Senegal. 
Quite glabrous, Stem about a span high, usually very stout and much branched. 
aime 4-1 in., nerves very obscure. Calyx à in. Corolla-tube hardly exceeding the 
yx. 
3. H. floribunda, Br. Prodr. 442; erect, leaves linear-lanceolate entire 
orobscurely toothed, flowers peduncled, sepals membranous outer very broad 
per almost orbicular, capsule globose. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 400; 
th Nov. Sp. 289; Miquel FI. Ind. Bat. ii. 684. H. linearis, Spreng. Syst. 
Ta, u. 802. H. lanceolata, Wight in Benth. Seroph. Ind. 30; Wall. Cat. 
9. H. amara, Spanoghe in Linnea, xv. 332? Lindernia sesamoides, 
. new entd, i. 261. 
Deccan PENINSULA; common in wet places from the Concan southwards, and 
N.—Distrip, Java, Australia, Tropical Africa. . 
Nearly glabrous, Stem a span high and upwards, more slender than in ZZ. Hamil- 
loniana, aves j-l in., sometimes linear, at others contracted into a petiole. 
Peduncles about equalling the calyx, very slender, 2-bracteolate below the top, 
puberulous, as are the reticulate sepals, 
19. GRATIOLA, Linn. 
Fi Glabrous or glandular-pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 
vwers axillary, solitary, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, subequal. Corolla-tube 
qUndrie ; lips spreading, posterior the outer entire or 2-fid; anterior 3-fid. 
gen, 2 posterior perfect included, anther-cells distinct; staminodes 2, 
orm or 0. Style filiform, stigma deflexed dilated or 2-lamellate. Cap- 
tule ovoid, loculi- and se ti-cidal; valves separating from the placentiferous 
regions, many, small, reticulate.—Species about 20, chiefly of temperate 
| d LI * 
m G. Grifüthit, Hook. f.; glabrous, succulent, erect, leaves elliptic- 
«d obtuse 3-nerved entire, flowers sessile diandrous, staminodes 0, cap- 
sule globose, , 
(Ken prt drea, on moist banks; Gabovo, Nam Senna and Noa Dehing, Griffith 
Tib. 3915), Simons. 
T succulent, renee from the base, 6-10 in. high; branches erect. Leaves 
in., sometimes obscure] sinuate, most minutely punctate; nerves very slender. 
* minute. Corolla l in., yellow, tube scarcely exceeding the linear-oblong 
diam,’ lobes short, rounded. Anther-cells parallel, shortly oblong. Capsule } in. 
nig membranous. Seeds cancellate.—A very interesting plant, as being the only 
Asiatic representative of the genus, 
Ge UNKNOWN SPECIES. , r 
He, HAMEDRYs and G. stRrcosa, Roth Nov. Sp.10, two Peninsular plants o 
other gore nrecognizable from the descriptions, and no doubt well-known species o 
Gen spn MEDRIFOLIA, Lamk. Dict. iii. 27 (Limnophila chamedrifolia, G. Don 
. ust. 343, is doubtfully ref iquel ( Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 682) to Li a 
? , y referred by Miquel (Fl. In 
Puliasima B, (under L. punctata BL) of which it may be a small state. 
Y 20. DOPATRIUM, Hamilt. 
uud slender glabrous marsh annuals. Leaves few, op ro, solitary ; 
D or fili “fid. Corolla- 
th orm, ebracteolate. Caly% 5-fid. 
La] 78d upper lip the outer, short, 2-fid; 
3 L 
VOL, Stamens, 2 upper perfect, included ; anther-cells parall : 
