854. SOLANUM TRILOBATUM.  (Linn.) frutescent, 
scandent, prickly ; prickles hooked : leaves panduriforml y 
3 lobed, or 3 lobed obtuse, glabrous and are, as well as the 
petioles and peduncles, prickly : racemes subumbellate 
terminal and lateral : corollas deeply 5 cift. Don. gard. 
dict. 4, p. 437, 
A common plant found creeping on the ground or 
climbing among hedges and bushes. The color of the 
flower varies from white to purplish the berries red. 
855, STRIGA EUPHRASIODES. (Benth. Buchnera euph- 
rasivides Vahl.Benth.) nearly glabrous, rough, leaves linear 
oblong: calyx oblong, marked with about 15 trio tube 
of the corella pubescent. Benth. Scrof. Ind. p. 41. 
This plant is common in wet pasture land. Since the 
publication of his synopsis of Indian Serofularine Mr. 
Bentham has revised his previous labours in this family 
and has separated the Indian species of Buchnera, from 
the Cape ones, under the generic name of Striga, mainly 
on account of the very different form of the corolla— 
being straight salver-shaped in Buchnera and abruptly 
bent in Striga. This therefore being a true Striga I have 
adopted the name and quote that on the plate as a 
synonym, without, however, approving of the principle 
and still less the practice of constructing genera based on 
such slender points of difference. So far as I can judge 
from a perusal of the generic character, I should suppose 
that a subgenus would have amply sufficed, thereby avoid- 
ing the injury to the science arising from breaking down 
good natural genera and unnecessarily adding to the al- 
ready too long list of synonyms under which Botany 
groans. 
856. SUTERA GLANDULOSA. (Roxb. Benth.) diffuse, 
clothed with glandular hairs, viscid, segments of the pin- 
natified leaves cut; the upper ones, with the racimes of 
flowers, alternate : sepals obtuse.— Bentham’s Synopsis, 
. 42. 
å This drawing was not made under mv direction and the 
analysis are less perfect than I could have wished. The 
plants forming this genus are low diffuse herbs with op- 
posite pinnatified leaves, pedicelled axillary, solitary, or 
occasionally, racemose flowers. 
857. BoNNAYA Hissopioipes. (Benth.) stem elongated 
lax : leaves oblong lanceolate, remote: pedicels axillary 
elongated, filiform corolla three or four times longer than 
the calyx. Benth. Synop. p. 34. 
This is a common plant on the banks of paddy fields 
and in wet pasture every where during the rainy season. 
858. Bonnaya minima? (G. Don. Gratiola minima. 
Roth.) stem filiform erect simple: leaves oblong, sessile, 
remote, serrulated and are, as well as the calycine seg- 
ments, ciliated on the margin : capsule oblong, rather 
longer than the pedicels. Don. gard. dict. 4, p. 538. 
This very minute species is found in paddy fields, but 
to the best of my recollection is of rare occurrence. ‘The 
flowers are pale yellow. I am uncertain whether this 
is Roth’s plant, but I think it corresponds well with the 
character and, like it, only attains the height of about 3 
inches. 
859. Doparrium LOBELIOIDES. (Benth. Gratiola lobe- 
lioides Roxb.) stem elongated, sparingly branched : leaves 
of the stem minute,obtuse : capsules globose : corolla nearly 
five times the length of the calyx. Benth. Synop. p. 31. 
Frequent in rice fields growing in water, flowers usual- 
ly pale blue, longish pedicelled ; racimes on the ends of 
the brauches. The draftsman from not understanding it, 
has not clearly shown the structure of the capsule which 
is four valved. This however is unquestionably Mr. 
Bentham’s plant. : 1 
Figure 4 is a detached antlıer considerably magnified. 
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860. LIMNOPHILA POLYSTACHYA. (Benth.) leaves 
emersed ternnately whorled, 3 nerved : racemes branched, 
slender many flowered : flowers small sessile. Bench, 
Synop. Scropularinæ Indice, p. 27. 
Not unfrequent in rice fields and other flooded grounds 
in the Tanjore distriet and indeed in most parts of Coro- 
mavdel. Flowers small white. 
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861. 1۱ ٥021117۸ racemosa (Benth. Cyrilla aqua- 
tica Roxb.) leaves emersed opposite or subverticelled, 
three nerved, entire, or the lower ones divided : racemes 
dense many flowered ; flowers pedicelled and like the mem- 
branaceous calyx smooth. Benth. Synop. Scroph. Ind. 26, 
A native of flooded ground such as rice fields the flow- 
ers are purplish, possessing considerable fragrance. 
862. Torrnıa ASIATICA. (Linn.) leaves ovate or ovate 
lanceolate : peduncles axillary fascicled: calyx oblong, con» 
tracted at the base, about half the length of the corolla. 
Bentk. Synop. Scroph. Ind. p. 38. 
An alpine or subalpine plant very widely diffused in 
alpine regions, The specimen selected by the drafts- 
man for the illustration of this species is not so favoura- 
ble a one as might have been. The plant itself has little 
beauty, except when formiug a compact tuft with a num- 
ber of open blossoms when it does become one strikingly 
so, owing to the deep rich purple of its flowers. 
863. VANDELIA CRUSTACEA. (Benth. Gratiola lucida, 
Roxb.) diffuse, glabrous : leaves ovate : peduncles axillary 
or subracimose two or three times longer than the calyx : 
calyx before expansion 5 toothed, afterwards 5 parted, ex- 
ceeding the ovate capsules. Benth. Synop. Seroph. Ind. 35. 
A very widely distributed plant and well represented in 
this figure. 
864. ANISOMELES MALABARICA, (Brown. Benth.) tomen- 
tosely villous : leaves oblong lanceolate narrowing at the 
base: verticillasters many flowered, dense, or at length 
elongating into large cymes; floral leaves, bracts, and 
subulate teeth of the calyx very soft. Benth. Leb. p. 704. 
Frequent in many parts of the Carnatic, but has an ex- 
tensive range, being also found in Burmah, the Mauritius, 
Penang, Java, China, &c. 
865. ÅNISOMELES OVATA. (R. Brown.—Benth.) hairy 
or subglabrous: leaves ovate or roundish, acuminated, 
rounded, or truncately subcordate, at the base; verticillas- 
ters dense, many flowered, teeth of the calyx lanceolate 
acute. Benth. l. c. p. 702. 
A common plant not very ornamental and with as wide 
a geographical range as the preceding. 
866. Leucas Bircors, (Brown. Benth.) herbaceous 
diffuse : leaves ovate, coarsely dentate, pubescent on both 
sides: verticillasters two flowered ; bracteas minute: calyx 
tubular, mouth equal, teeth subulate. Benth. l. c. p. 610. 
A low growing plant, common in arid jungles, very 
polymorphous in its general appearance. The form here 
represented is not the most common, but being suitable 
for the size of the plates was taken, I have seen plants. 
three or four feet long, usually lying on the ground, but 
sometimes climbing to that height among bushes, 
867. LEONOTIS NEPETIOFOLIA. (R. Brown—Benth.)her- 
baceous : leaves ovate crenate : all the teeth of the calyx 
spinous, the upper one larger ovate: corolla (red) about 
twice the length ofthe calyx. Benth. l. e. p. 618. 
This very conspicuous plant, owing to its large redish 
orange coloured flowers, is usually found growing among 
rubbish and in neglected places, flowering at all seasons. 
It is widely distributed over the world, being found in the 
tropical parts of Asia, Africa, America, and New Holland, 
