Torenia. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA, vd 
* 
Found on old walls about Calcutta, It flowers during the 
rains. 
Root ramous, seems perennial, Stems many, ascending, 
ramous, herbaceous, woody, somewhat viscous, the whole 
- plant about twelve or eighteen inches high. Leaves oppo- 
site, petioled, ovate, deeply serrate, soft, a little hairy ; 
about an inch long. Petio/es shorter than the leaves, chan- 
nelled. Stipules none. Flowers axillary, sub-sessile, soli- 
fary, opposite, small, yellow. Calyx ten-furrowed, five- 
toothed, permanent, Coro/ personate; tube the length of the 
calyx ; both lips projecting, and shut ; apex of the under lip 
broad, depending, three-toothed, of the upper one very nar- 
row, bifid ; inside of both hairy, and beautifully marked with 
_ small purple dots, Filaments and anthers, as in the genus. 
Stigma slighty two-lobed,. 
TORENIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1011. 
Calyx dilabiate. Corol irregular, one pair of the filaments 
with a barren branchlet. Capsule two-celled, par Bice E 
SS parallel, 
¢. 
1. T. cordifolia, Corom., pl. ii. p, 2. f. 161. 
Annual, brachiate, four-sided. Leaves satiatal 20 
serrate. Calyx two-cleft, with divisions two and three-toothed. : 
Nut cordate, serrate. Calyx two-cleft, with divisions two 
and three-toothed. 
- Corosinam. Rheed. Mal, ix. t. 68. 
A native of the sth sis Dison 5 in the sea season, 
= 
a ae iffusa. 
Annual, diffuse. Leaves sessile, cordate, entite. Flowers 
solitary, long-peduncled. Calyx gan antes ie =A 
ments” vali sterile branch. - 
