282 CHI. SOROPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Vandellia. 
recorded from Ceylon).—DISTRIB. Siam, China, Japan, Malay and Polynesian Islands, 
and westwards to France. e. 
Branched from the base; branches divaricate, not rooting, 4-8 in. high. Leaves 
3-8 in. Pedicels very slender, usually twice as long as the leaves. Sepals 44 in. 
long, rather obtuse.— Closely resembles Z/ysanthes parviflora. So common a plant as 
thisis cannot bave escaped the notice of Roxburgh, and I think it must be his 
Gratiola integrifolia. Maximovicz has discussed at length the variations exhibited 
by this plant, and its passage into the northern Lindernia pyxidaria, n which the 
flowers are sometimés cleistogamous, the filaments straight and sometimes noi 
appendaged. The Indian forms should be carefully studied. 
** Capsule much longer than the calyx. 
10. V. nummularifolia, Don Prodr. 86; erect, quite glabrous, leaves 
sessile or shortly petioled ovate orbicular or obovate obtuse crenate-serrate, 
edicels axillary and in subumbellate or few-fld. racemes longer than the 
eaves, calyx 5-toothed fruiting shorter than the ellipsoid acuminate cap- 
sule. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 416. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-7000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. KĦAsIA 
Mrs., alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. . ; 
Simple or branched from the base, the branches not rooting, divaricate, 4-6 in. 
high. Leaves 1-3 in., often as broad as long, nerves subflabellate. Pedicels 3-3 a 
very slender. Calyx 1 in. long, cleft to the middle, teeth acute, irregularly clett is 
the base in fruit. Corolla red-purple, lateral lobes of lip white. Lower filaments 
with a broad obtuse tooth. Capsule nearly } in. 
1l. V. sessiliflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 97, and in DC. Prodr. 416; 
erect, glabrous or puberulous, leaves sessile rounded or broadly ovate crenate- 
serrate, flowers sessile or very shortly pedicelled, calyx 5-toothed fruiting 
shorter than the ellipsoid acute capsule. V. minima, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 
37. Torenia sessiliflora, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3959. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-7000 ft. from Kashmir to Mishmi. Knuasia 
Mrs., alt. 2-4000 ft. Ava, Wallich. BEHAR; on Parusnath, J. D. H., Clarke. 
Probably a sessile-flowered form of V. nummularifolia, from which the short pedicels 
alone distinguish it in a dried state. 
19. V. pedunculata, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 97, and in DC. Prodr. x. 
416; glabrous, branches long procumbent, leaves shortly petioled ovate 
obscurely crenate-toothed, pedicels axillary much longer than the leaves 
and in terminal racemes, sepals free to the base half as long as the linear, 
lanceolate capsule. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. F1. 179; Griff. Notul. iv. 120, - 
Ie. Pl. Asiat. t. 48, f£. 9. V. Roxburghii & cordifolia, G. Don Gen. Syst. 
iv. 949. Gratiola cordifolia, Vahl Enum. i. 97; Don Prodr. 85. Bony 
cordifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 42. Tittmannia grandiflora, Benth. in Wall. 
Cat. 3949. Torenia diffusa, Rows. FU. Ind. ii. 95. T. varians, Griff. Notul. 
iv. 125, not of Roxb. 
Throughout INDIA, and in CEYLON ; abundant in rice-swamps.—D1sTRIB. Borneo 
China, Cochin-China. 
Stem sometimes creeping at the base, branches 4-10 in., slender, prostrate. 
Leaves 3-1 in., obtuse or subacute. Pedicels twice as long as the leaves, sometimes 
lj in. Sepals + in., narrowly lanceolate. Corolla white, or pale blue with a white 
spot. Longer filaments with a small obtuse tooth. Capsule 4 in.—1 have seen no 
specimen of Bentham var. 8 parviflora from Ceylon. See Bonnaya peduncularis an 
veronicefolia for remarks, 
13. V. angustifolia, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 37, and in DC. Prodr. * 
417; diffuse, glabrous, leaves sessile linear or linear-lanceolate obtuse entire 
