274 CII. SCROPHULARINEEX. (J. D. Hooker) [Dopatrium. 
equal; staminodes 2, minute. Style short, stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule 
small, globose or oblong, loculicidal, valves placentiferous. Seeds numerous, 
very minute, tubercled.— Species 5, African, Asiatic and Australian. 
1. D. nudicaule, Ham. in Benth. Scroph. Ind. 31, and in DC. Prodr. 
x. 407; very slender, 2-4 in. high, bracts minute acuminate, calyx-lobes 
acuminate, capsule linear-oblong, pedicel deflexed. Gratiola nudicaulis, 
Willd. in Act. Berol. iv. 192. G. aphylla, Roth Nov. Sp. 7. G. cuneifolia, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind., and Ed. Wall. & Carey, i. 142. 
SovrH DECCAN ; Heyne, &c. CEYLON; not uncommon.—DIsTRIB. Java, Philip- 
pine Islands. 
Stem simple or branched from the base. Leaves, radical 0, or very few, y 
long, oblong, obtuse; cauline few, minute. Corolla } in. long. Capsule i in. 
2. D. junceum, Ham. in Benth. Scroph. Ind. 31, and in DC. Prodr. x. 
407 ; stem 6-10 in., bracts minute obtuse, calyx-lobes oblong obtuse, corolla 
à in. capsule globose. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 178; Griff. Notul. iv. 102, 
and Ie. Pl. Asiat.'t. 418, f. 6; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 686. Gratiola juncea, 
Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 16, t. 199, and FI. Ind., and Ed. Wall. § Carey, i. 142; 
Wall. Cat. 3892. Morgania juncea, Spreng. Syst. ii. 803. 
Throughout INDIA from the Upper Gangetic plain southwards and eastwards to 
Assam, Burma, and CEYLON.—DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, Japan, Philippines, 
Australia. 
Rather fleshy, branched from the base. Leaves, radical 0 or few, oblong, obtuse, 
sometimes 2 in. long, nerves parallel; cauline smaller, in distant pairs. Flowers 
in very distant pairs, rose coloured, sessile or on capillary pedicels 1-1 in. erect m 
fruit. Capsule 3 in. diam. 
3. D. lobelioides, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 31, and in DC. Prodr. x. 407; 
stem 6-18 in., bracts minute obscure, calyx-lobes very short obtuse, corolla 
lin. capsule globose. Wight Ic. t. 859. Gratiola lobelioides, Retz Obs. 
iv. 7; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 142; Wall. Cat. 3893. G. hyssopioides, Roxb. Cor. 
Pl. ii. t. 128, and Fl. Ind. i. 141, and Ed. Wall. & Carey, i. 142 (not of Cor. 
PI. iii. t. 203). 
SovrH DECCAN, Heyne, &c. CEYLON. 
Stem stout and fleshy below, sometimes as thick'as a goose-quill above and branches 
very slender. Leaves, lower 2—4 pairs obovate-oblong, obtuse, 1-2 in. long, Upper 
very few distant and small; nerves parallel, very obscure. Flowers subracemose, in 
distant pairs; pedicels capillary, 3-1 in., spreading in fruit. Capsule ¢ in. diam, 
21. ARTANEMA, Don. 
Erect herbs, angles of stems and leaves above scabrid. Leaves opposite, 
entire or serrate. Flowers large, blue, racemose, ebracteolate ; bracts 
foliaceous. Sepals 5, acuminate, bare, much dilated. Corolla-tube long; 
broad; upper lip the outer, erect, broad, notched; lower spreading, 3-fid. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, 2 posterior short, included; 2 anterior with long 
arching filaments dilated at the base; cells confluent at their tips. Stigma 
2-lamellate. Capsule globose, septicidal; valves entire, separatin from the 
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placent if erous axis. Seeds rugose.— Species 4, tropical Asiatic, ustralian 
l. A. sesamoides, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39, and in DC. Prodr. x. 408; 
leaves lanceolate more or less petioled, corolla 3 in. long, tube broad. Wight 
Ie. t. 1410; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 181; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 686. 
Columnea longifolia, Linn. Mant. 90, Achimenes sesamoides, Vahl Symb. 
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