Torenia.] CHI SCROPHULARINEE, (J. D. Hooker.) 277 
. Closely resembles a large state of T. cordifolia in habit and foliage, but the calyx 
islonger and narrower, with the wings produced on the pedicel, never cordate at 
the base, and the capsule is longer and narrower. The plate in Bot. Mag. is very 
characteristic. Hamilton’s 7. alba is, I assume, a white-fld. variety. 
5, T. asiatica, Linn.; Wight Ic. t. 862; nearly glabrous or pubes- 
cent, diffuse, creeping below, leaves shortly petioled ovate-cordate or -lanceo- 
late serrate, pedicels axillary and subumbellate fruiting thickened, fruiting 
calyx 1 in., narrowly oblong keeled hardly winged, base decurrent, corolla 
1}-14 in. blue with very dark violet lateral lobes, longer filaments toothed. 
Benth. in DO. Prodr. x. 410; Wall. Cat. 3953 A. B.; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. 
1.689; Gaertn. Fruct. iii. 29, t. 184; Lamk. Ill. t.523; Bot. Mag. t. 4249; 
Lem. lil. Hortic. t. 199; Fl. de Serres ii. fase. x. t. 5, and xin. t. 1342. 
Treisteria cordata, Griff. Notul. iv. 109.— Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 53. 
WESTERN PENINSULA; Nilgherry Mts, Wight, &c. TENASSERIM; at Mergui, 
Griffith. CEYLON, abundant.—Distris. Java, China, . 
Diffusely branched ; branches 6-10 in. long, slender. Leaves 14-2 in., larger and 
usually more acuminate than in the allied species; petiole rarely more than } in. 
Fruiting calyx narrowly winged or keeled. 
. VAR. hirsuta; more pubescent, lower filaments with a very small tooth. T. 
hirsuta, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 410; Bot. Mag. t. 5167. T. cordifolia, Benth. in 
Wall. Cat. 3954, not of Roxb. ? Lamk. Ill. t. 523, f. 2.—Nilgherry Mts. 
AR. concolor; corolla of a uniform dark blue. T. concolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
846, t. 62. T. longiflora, Morren in Ann. de Gand. ii. 441, 471. — , 
Van. ? parvifolia; leaves much smaller longer petioled less acuminate, petiole 
often as long as the blade. T. asiatica, Thwaites Enum. 219.—Nilgherry Mts. and 
eylon. This closely resembles 7’. bicolor in habit and foliage, and is, I suspect, speci- 
fically distinct from T. asiatica. 
6. T. vagans, Rorb. Cat. 1813, and Fl. Ind. iii. 96; nearly glabrous, 
got or decumbent, diffusely branched, rooting at the lower nodes, leaves 
ilin. all shortly petioled, pedicels scattered axillary fruiting thickened, fruit- 
ing calyx 1-3 jn, narrowly linear-oblong keeled not winged, corolla $ in. 
pale blue, lobes small, longer filaments toothed. T. diffusa, Don P rod. 
86; Wall. Cat. 3953. T. asiatica, Wall. Cat. 3953, in part; Griff. Notul. 
w. 123. T. hians, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 96. T. rubens, Benth. l. c. ? Peri- 
steira grandiflora, Griff. Notul.iv.118. Columnea diffusa, Roxb. mss. 
CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, ascending to 4000 
tt Assam and KHASIA Mrs., common; CHITTAGONG, Clarke. NILGHERRIES; 
oncor, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke, —DrsTRIB. China. . d the always 
xcept by the usually more diffuse habit, the not winged calyx and the a way 
thed longer filaments, I do not see how this can well be distinguished from T. 
peduncularis. The flowers are much smaller than in T. asiatica and of a more uni- 
orm blue, and the leaves also are smaller. I cannot distinguish T. rubens Sa 
Variety ; the characters assigned to it are the short obtuse tooth of the longer fiia 
ments, and often red tips to the calyx teeth. 
1 7. T. hirtella, Hook.f; pubescent, very slender, diffusely branched, 
es 4-1 in. very shortly petioled upper usually sessile ovate Of ruitin 
ndate subacute serrate, pedicels solitary axillary fruiting Biene , P els 
“Alyx $ in, narrowly oblong keeled not winged, corolla $ 10., Hohen Pl 
Ni ts with an obtuse tooth. T. rubens var. hirtella, Benth. in Hohen. ^. 
+g. 1156, 1157. T. rubens, Thwaites Enum. 219. 
Nronrnny Mrs., Hohenacker, Czyrox; Gardner, &c. ascending to 2007 Mery 
shortly" distinct species, at once recognizable by the very slender hant ME S is 
“tly petioled leaves, ‘The corolla is small, with short lobes. Thwai 
