286 CUI. SCROPHULARINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Bonnaya. 
growing in moist grassy places; if so, it is a remarkable one, the fruiting calyx being 
much shorter, not above à in. long, and the habit is considerably different. It 
approaches very closely Vandellia pedunculata. 
5. B. oppositifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 41; very short, erect, diffusely 
branched, leaves sessile linear-oblong obtuse subserrate, pedicels short 
often shorter than the calyx axillary or the upper racemed reflexed in fruit, 
corolla 4 in. long, capsule small twice as long as the calyx or more. Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. x. 421; Wall. Cat. 3862; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 179. 
B. minima, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 538. Gratiola oppositifolia, Roxb. Cor. 
PI. ii, 30, t. 155, and Fl. Ind., and Ed. Wall. & Carey, i. 139. G. minima, 
Roth Nov. Sp. 8. Henckelia oppositifolia, Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 572. 
Deccan PENINSULA, Heyne, Wight, &c. 
A much smaller plant than any of the first four species, and with a somewhat 
different habit, and very small blue flowers; but beyond the general characters indi- 
cated above, I am unable to add anything. The flowers are blue (2ozd.). 
6. B. tenuifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 42; succulent, erect, diffusely in- 
iricately branched, leaves sessile linear nearly entire, pedicels axillary and 
the upper racemed deflexed in fruit, corolla 4 in. long, capsule slender two to 
three times as long as the calyx. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 422; Wall. Cat. 
3863; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 698. B. pusilla, Griff. Notul. iv. 107. 
Gratiola tenuifolia, Vahl Enum. i. 95. 
BENGAL; at Serampore, Griffith. Deccan PENINSULA, Rottler, &c.; Quilon, 
Wight. TENASSERIM, Griffith. CEYLON; at Peradenzia and Caltura, Macrae.— 
DISTRIB. China. l 
This appears to be a very distinct species, growing in a tufted manner, probably 
in marshes, with interlaced branches and slender leaves 1-1} by 4-4 in. The flowers 
are very small (pale blue, Griff.), and the capsules vary from 1—j in. in length. 
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27. BYTHOPHYTON, Hook. f. 
A slender submerged glabrous herb. Leaves opposite, subulate-lanceo- 
late, quite entire. Flowers axillary, shortly pedicelled, ebracteolate. Sepals 
4, subulate-lanceolate. Corolla minute, much shorter than the caly% 
subcylindric, membranous, obscurely 2-lipped, 4-lobed. Stamens, 2 anterior 
perfect, included, filaments very short sometimes gibbous; anther-cells 
parallel. Ovary ovoid; style short, curved, stigma subcapitate. Capsule 
much shorter than the sepals, broadly oblong, compressed, obtuse, 2-valved, 
valves 2-fid or 2-partite. Seeds many, narrowly oblong, reticulate. 
B. indicum, Hook. f. Micranthemum indicum, H. f. & T. in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. ix. (1857) 245, t. 7 (excl. fig. of anthers). 
KnasrA Mrs. ; marshes at Nonkreem, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. . 
Stems 2-3 in.,loosely tufted, flaccid, erect, wholly submerged, terete. Leaves j-j in. 
long, 3-nerved at the base. Sepals X in. Corolla with the lobes closed over the 
anthers as in submerged states of Limosella. Stamens very variable.—A singular 
little plant, the flowers of which may assume a different character when the marshes 
dry up. It is clearly the type of a genus, the exact position of which is uncertain. 
The anthers are erroneously figured as hairy. 
28. MICROCARPIEA, Br. 
A very small slender diffuse or creeping nearly glabrous herb. Leaves 
opposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse, quite entire. Flowers minute, axillary, 
