284 CHI. SCROPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ilysanthes. 
half the size.—This differs from Vandellia erecta in the reduction of the shorter 
stamens, and in the longer acute capsule. 
3. I. minima, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 420; very small and slender, 
erect, subsimple, leaves few minute ovate- or elliptic-oblong entire, pedicels 
axillary capillary, corolla three times as long as the calyx, fruiting sepals 
equalling the subglobose capsule. Bonnaya minima, Wight Ic. t. 858, not of 
G. Don. 
The Deccan; at Palamcotta, Wight. 
Stem 1-3 in., filiform, always simple below. Leaves 2-3 pairs, ył in. obtuse, 
quite entire. Flowers few, large for the size of the plant; pedicels i-i in. Corolla 
ł-4 in. Capsule } in. diam.—A very elegant minute plant. 
4, I. rotundifolia, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 420; diffuse or creeping, 
leaves sessile broadly ovate elliptic or rounded entire or toothed 3-5-nervel, 
pedicels axillary shorter or longer than the leaves, corolla twice as long as 
the calyx, fruiting sepals equalling the globose capsule. Gratiola rotundi- 
folia, Linn. Mant. 174; Roxb. Cor. Pl. iii. 3, t. 204, and Fl. Ind. i. 137, and 
Ed. Wall. & Carey, i. 138. 
CoROMANDEL, Roxburgh. CANARA, Hohenacker. CEYLON, Macrae, &c.— DISTRIB. 
Mauritius and Madagascar. 
Stems or branches 6-10 in., often rooting at the nodes. Leaves i-i in., obtuse 
? subacute. Flowers few, white; pedicels 1—2 in. Corolla } in. long. Capsule 
in, 
26. BONNAYA, Link et Otto. 
Annual, quite glabrous herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or serrate, penn! 
nerved, nerves very obscure. Flowers solitary, axillary, or the upper oppos! 
and racemose, pedicels ebracteolate. Sepals 5, narrow. Corolla-tube cylin- 
dric; upper lip erect, broad, concave, 2-fid; lower larger, spreading, 3-lobed. 
Stamens, 2 lower only perfect, subincluded, filaments filiform ; anthers 
touching, cells divaricate ; staminodes 2, entire, glandular, obtuse. Stigma 
2-lamellate. Capsule narrow, far exserted, septicidal; valves entire, sepa- 
rating from the placentiferous septum. Seeds numerous, rugose.— Species 
8, tropical African and Asiatic. 
.. Several species of this genus so closely resemble others of Vandellia as to render 
its validity very doubtful. 
1. B. brachiata, Link & Otto, Ic. Pl. Sel. i.25, t. 11; erect, diffusely 
branched, leaves sessile oblong obtuse or acute sharply closely deeply 
serrate, flowers racemed shortly pedicelled, corolla } in. long, capsules 
spreading or erect twice as long as the calyx or more. Benth. in Wall. Cat. 
3855, an in DC. Prodr. x. 420; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 178; Miquel Fl. 
Jnd. Bat. ii. 695. B. serrata, Grp Notul. iv. 108, and Bonnaya sp. l. c. 
106. Gratiola serrata, Roxb. F7. Ind. i. 139, and Ed. Wall. & Carey, i. 1%. 
B. brachiata & pusilla, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 32, 33.—Rheede Hort. Mal. 
1X, i. . 
, Throughout INDIA, from the Punjab to Travancore and Malacca, ascending the 
Himalaya to $000 ft. CEYLON, common.—Disrars. Java, China, Philippine Islands. 
A rather rigid herb, 4-10 in. high ; branches divaricate, outer decumbent below. 
Leaves 4-1} in., margins thickened, teeth mucronate. Racemes sometimes 4 M. 
long, with opposite bracteate flowers; icels about ‘lee the calyx rigid. 
Corolla red or white. Capsule } in., i Podio s about equalling yx 
2. B. reptans, Spreng. Syst. i. 41; prostrate, creeping, leaves 
