﻿Torenia.^ scrophulabiace.e (Hiern). 363 



shining, grass-greeu, strict, simple or sparingly trichotomous, about 

 2 in. high ; root simple ; stem and branches sharply tetragonal, 

 almost Avinged in the dry state, leafy, pale green ; leaves opposite 

 or the uppermost alternate, the radical or lowest pair spathulate, 

 shortly petiolate, repand, about ^ in. long; upper cauline leaves 

 narrowly elliptical, lanceolate or sublinear, pbtuse, somewhat 

 narrowed to the sessile connate base, sparingly denticulate, moderately 

 thick, longer than the internodes, ^-f in. long, yVH i^- broad; 

 floAvers racemose or the lower leaf-opposed, about } in, long ; 

 racemes terminal, about 1 in. long ; pedicels ^-fV^^- '«"?' bracteate 

 at the base ; bracts subulate, about -^^ in. long; calyx about } in. 

 long in flower, 4- in. long in fruit, erect, shortly 5-lobed, bilabiate, 

 in fruit bipartite ; tube 5-ribbed ; ribs mostly winged ; upper lip 

 3-toothed, lower 2 -toothed ; teeth small, lanceolate and acute; 

 stamens all antheriferous and perfect; capsules ovoid-oval, | in. 

 long, y\- in. broad. 7\ incsqualifolia, Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 502 ; 

 Hiern, Oat. Aft. PL Welw. i. 762. 



Kalauari Region: Trausvaul; Manaka, 2700 ft., SchlecUer, 4641! 



This locality is in Tropical Transvaal, but the plant probably occurs withiu the 

 limits of this Flora, and is therefore included. 



* XXXI. ILYSANTHES, Rafiu. 



Calux tubular, more or less turbinate at the base, 5-dentate 

 5-cleftor 5-partite, not very strongly 5-costate nor ^i^g^'^^^J^^ 

 ribs ; teeth or lobes slightly or scarcely imbricate in bud J^otoUa-^ 

 tube cylindrical or somewhat campanulate above ; ^i^^b bi abiate 

 posterior lip exterior, erect, concave, shortly bifad ; ^^^^"^^ ^^J 

 interior, spreading, 3-iobed; lobes nearly equal ^^amen. in erted 

 on the ;pper part'of the corolla-tube, 2 only or 4 and "i^dy^^^T";, ^ 

 only 2 antheriferous and perfect, posterior ; fil^'^^^*'^ ^^f^ of^^ 

 anthers often cohering, 2-celled, cells divergmg ; f lamodes .or 

 anterior, bilobed or entire. Ovary 2-celled ; style ^l^ff °^'^J^^^^^^^^ 

 bilamellate at the apex; lobes stigmatic ^^tl^^.V/r'Ld valves 

 Capsules ovoid, oblong or subfusiform, septicidal, bilobed, valves 

 thin. Seeds numerous, minutely tuberculate or rugose. 



Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or f l-^'^xXr^ sSry T" ie^ 

 delicate; leaves opposite, entire or dentate; flowers axillary, solitary 

 together : pedicels not bracteate. , .. 



DisTHiB. Species about 20, occurring in the tropical and warmer pu.ts of 

 world. 



Staminodes tuberculate, bearing a small tooth ... (1) ^^^" 



Staminodes wanting or filiform and smootn = ^^. 



Aquatic; leaves crowded at or near lae i ^ ^^^ conferta. 



Ten-esS ;'stem.leaves not crowded at or near 

 the top of the stem : 



