276 CHI. SCROPHULARINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Torenia. 
or eancellate.—Species 20, tropical Asiatic and African, one of them also 
American. 
The species 4 to 8 are imperfectly characterized, and are very difficult of dis- 
crimination in the dried state. 
Sect. I. Tridens. Fruiting calyx suborbicular, broadly winged. 
1. T. polygonoides, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39, and in DC. Prodr. x. 
409; creeping, glabrous, leaves petioled 3-3 in. orbicular-ovate serrate, 
peduncles axillary 2—4-fld. Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 688. T. cardiosepala, 
Benth. l.c. Herpestis polygonoides, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3897. 
CACHAR, Keenan. TENASSERIM; at Tavoy, Wallich. SINGAPORE, PENANG and 
Maracca, Griffith, &c. Bouton told me PENANG (Miquel).—D1srR1B. Borneo, Philip- 
ine Islands. 
P A slender straggling herb, branches 6-10 in. Corolla } in. diam., white and red. 
Fruiting calyx } in. long, as long as the pedicel. Capsule ovate-lanceolate. 
2. T. mucronulata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 409; creeping, pubes- 
cent, leaves petioled 4-3 in. ovate acute serrate, peduncles axillary 1-4-fid. 
TENASSERIM ; at Mergui, Griffith. 
Very similar indeed to T. polygonoides, but pubescent, with rather larger 
leaves. 
Srcr. II. Nortenia. Calyx oblong ellipsoid or linear-oblong, fruiting 
keeled or winged (often cordate in outline in T. cordifolia). 
* Flowers axillary, solitary or 2-nate, or subumbellate at the ends of 
the branches. 
3. T. cordifolia, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 52, f. 161, and Fl. Ind. iii. 95; 
suberect, sparsely hairy, leaves petioled ovate serrate, pedicels axillary 
and subumbellate fruiting slender, fruiting calyx 4 in. ovoid or oblong 
winged, base rounded or cordate not decurrent, corolla % in. long pale blue, 
lower filaments toothless. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39, and in DC. Prodr. x. 
409, in part; Bot. Mag. t. 3715; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 180. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Simla to Kumaon, ascending to 6000 ft. CENTRAL 
INDIA, BEHAR, on Parusnath. The Crrcars, the Concan, Peau and TENASSERIM.— 
DISTRIB. Java, China. 
Annual, nearly glabrous, 4-8 in. high, usually erect and trichotomously branched 
from the base ; stem and branches almost 4-winged. Leaves 1-1} in., glabrous ; base 
cuneate very rarely cordate, petiole rarely as long as the blade. Pedicels often longer 
than the leaves.— Clarke remarks that Bentham describes the filaments as toothed, 
but that he has never found them so, and that Roxburgh’s figure represents them 
as toothless. Rheede’s Hort. Mal. ix. t. 68, must be a very different plant. Wight s 
T. cordifolia from Courtallum with long decumbent stems 12-18 in. long, short 
petioles, and long axillary pedicels seems hardly th ies. but I cannot satis- 
factorily identify it with any other. y the same species, bu 
4. T. peduncularis, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3956; suberect, sparsely 
hairy, much branched, leaves petioled ovate crenate-serrate, pedicels axillary 
and subumbellate fruiting thickened, fruiting calyx $ in. ovoid or oblong 
winged, base acute decurrent, corolla $ in. pale blue, lower filaments tooth- 
less or minutely toothed. T. edentula, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 410, not of 
Griffith, and T. asiatica, Seroph. Ind. 38, in part; Bot. Mag. t. 4229. PT. 
exappendiculata, Regel Gartenfl.. 892. T. alba, Hb. Ham.; Wall. Cat. 
CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Hamilton; Sikkim, ascending í? 
7000 ft. Kasia MTS., Assam and SILHET: S. ķ.—DISTEIB. 
Java, Philippine Islands, > , T; PENANG, Schomburg 
