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broadly ovate, less than 0.5 mm long. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
about 12 mm in diameter, pubescent externally, the tube about 
3 mm long, the lobes oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
obtuse, about 5 mm long. Anthers free, oblong, blunt, 2.5 mm 
long ; pedicels in fruit stellate-tomentose, 1 to1.5cmlong. Calyx, 
in fruit, stellate-pubescent, divided at least one-half to the base 
into 5, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, 3 mm long 
lobes. Fruit globose, fleshy, about 5 mm in diameter, the peri- 
carp thin, glabrous, the seeds numerous, flattened, subelliptic 
to somewhat reniform, about 2 mm long. 
Guam Experiment Station 188, 446 (type), on rocks near the sea, Cabras 
Island, locally known as berenghenas halomtana. 
The alliances of the species are not clear to me, but it apparently belongs 
to the group with Solanum verbascifolium Linn. 
SCROPHULARIACEAE 
BACOPA <Aublet 
BACOPA MONNIERA (Linn.) Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
4” (1891) 77; Safford 193. 
Gratiola monniera Linn. Cent. Pl. 2 (1756) No. 120. 
Herpestis monniera HBK. Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 2 (1817) 366. 
G. E. S. 10. 
Tropics of both hemispheres. 
BONNAYA Link & Otto 
BONNAYA VERONICAEFOLIA (Retz.) Spreng Syst. 1 (1825) 42. 
Gratiola veronicaefolia Retz. Obs. 4 (1786) 8. 
G. E. S. 112. 
Widely distributed in tropical Asia and Malaya. 
LIMNOPHILA R. Brown 
LIMNOPHILA FRAGRANS (Forst. f.) Seem. Fl. Vit. (1865-73) 180. 
Ruellia fragrans Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 44. 
Limnophila serrata Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. (1826) 448, t. 57, f. 2. 
Ambulia fragrans Drake Fl. Polyn. France. (1892) 140; Safford 181. 
G. E. S. 169, in wet places; Volkens 329 from the Caroline Islands, 
distributed as Lindernia scabra Wettst., is Limnophila fragrans. 
Luzon to Australia and Polynesia. 
LIMNOPHILA INDICA (Linn.) comb. nov. 
Hottonia indica Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 919. 
Limnophila gratioloides R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 442. 
Ambulia indica W. F. Wight ex Safford in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 
(1905) 181. 
Collected in Guam by Gaudichaud; tropical Africa and Asia to Aus- 
tralia. 
