Bonnaya.] CII. SCROPHULARINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 285 
petioled obovate-oblong obtuse sharply serrate, flowers racemed shortly 
pedicelled, corolla # in. long, capsules spreading twice as long as the calyx 
or more. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 420; Wall. Cat. 3856; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb, Fl. 179. B. ruelloides & ciliata, Spreng. l. c. Gratiola ciliata & 
ruelloides, Ken. ; Vahl Enum. i. 97,99. G. reptans, Roxb. Fl. Ind., and Ed. 
Wall. § Carey, i. 140. Henckelia Roxburghiana, Dietr. Sp. Pl.i. 572. 
Eastern India; from NEPAL and SIKKIM (ascending to 7000 ft.) to AssaM, the 
Kuasta Mrs., CACHAR and TENASSERIM. MADRAS, Shuter. SOUTHERN CÓNCAN 
(Dalzell § Gibson). —D1sTR1». J ava, Philippine Islands. 
Stems or branches often a foot long, with distant pairs of leaves, slender, diffusely 
branched. Leaves 3-1} in., narrowed into the petiole, finely serrate. Corolla light 
purple. Capsule 1 in. long, very slender. 
3. B. veronicwfolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 41; stem creeping or de- 
cumbent; branches ascending, leaves subsessile or narrowed into a short 
petiole oblong or oblong-lanceolate or obovate serrate or subserrate, 
flowers racemose, corolla 4-4 in., capsules erecto-patent twice as long as the 
calyx or more. Wall. Cat. 3857; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 421; Wight 
i.t. 1411; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 178; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 696. 
. marginata, Spreng. l. c. B. rigida & procumbens, Benth. in Wall. 
Cat. 3899, 3860. B. Rothii, Dietr. Sp. Pl.i. 556. B. bracteata, Griff. 
Notul. iv. 107. Gratiola veroniesfolia, Retz Obs. iv. 8; Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 
90, t. 154, and FZ. Ind. j. 138, and Ed. Wall. & Carey, i. 139. G. marginata, 
Colsm. in Vahl Enum. 1.98. G. racemosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 9. 
Throughout INDIA ; from the Upper Gangetic plain southwards and eastwards to 
“sam, Travancore and Singapore. CEYLON, common.—DiIsTRIB. Java, Siam, 
China, Philippine Islands. 
Very variable in habit, but distinguished from B. brachiata and reptans by the 
vit (ent serratures of the leaf, which are more distant and less deep. Corolla 
ole xb.). : 
Var. grandiflora ; branches short stout, flowers chiefly axillary light blue, 
capsules smaller hardly twice as long as the calyx. B. grandiflora, Spreng. Syst. i. 
îl; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 421; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 179; Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat. ii, 697. B. pulegiifolia, Spreng. l. c. B. Wightii, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3864. 
‘iola grandiflora, Roxb. Cor. Pl. ii. 42, t. 179, and Fl. Ind. i, 136, and Ed. Carey 
$ Wall. i. 137, G. pulegiifolia, Vahl Enum. i. 98. Henckelia grandiflora, Dietr. 
Sp. i. 573.—1 find it impossible to separate this satisfactorily ; it inhabits the same 
area as p. veronicefolia and Vandellia pedunculata, which it closely resembles. The 
"ame grandiflora is not appropriate. Corolla light blue (Roxd.) . 
. AR. verbenefolia ; branches usually long and slender, leaves narrower subentire 
M distantly serrate, flowers larger in often elongate naked racemes. B. verbenzfolia, 
Wak in DC. Prodr. x. 421; Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 178; Wall. Cat. 3858. 
x Jit le t. 1412. B. Roxburghiana, Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 599. B. cyanea, Griff. 
tu. iv. 107. Gratiola verbenafolia & ciliata, Colsm. in Vahl Enum. i. 96, 97. 
p cemosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 138, and Ed. Wall. & Carey, i.139. G. Roxburghiana, 
woe d Sch, Syst. i. 123. Tittmannia Colsmanni & Torenia gracilis, Benth. in 
all. Cat, 3950, 3952.—This again is with difficulty separated as a variety from 
- veronicefolia, and it inhabits the same area. It bears the same relation to it as 
andellia angustifolia (which it closely resembles) does to V. pedunculata. 
X g B. peduncularis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 34, amd in DC. Prodr. 
li l, and in Wall. Cat. 3865; stems erect slender simple, leaves sessile 
Jew oblong obtuse nearly entire, pedicels axillary very long solitary 
the wt much longer than the leaves, capsule nearly three times as long as 
yx. l 
SILUET, Wallich, l po 
5 as Bentham suggests, may be a variety of B. veronicafolia var. grandifolia, 
