EXPLANATION OF PLATES 



VOL. IV.— PART III. 



1404-5. Vereascum vikgatum (Withering), stem 

 sub-viscoso-hispidulous or glabrous at the base : 

 leaves oblong, glabrous, or glanduloso-hispid be- 

 neath; the inferior ones petioled, dentate, or sin- 

 uato-pinnatifid ; the superior ones sessile or cor- 

 dato-amplexicaul, or shortly decurrent : racemes 

 glanduloso-hispid ; pedicels 2 or 3 together, rarely 

 solitary, shorter or about the length of the calyx: 

 filaments clothed with violet coloured woolly hairs 

 (violaceo-lanatis). 



This, according to Bentham (D. C. Prod.), is the 

 only Indian species of Stemodia. This genus is dis- 

 tinguished from Limnophila by the dehiscence of its 

 capsule: septicidal in this, loculicidal in that. So 

 far as this species is concerned, it seems to be a dis- 

 tinction of little value, as it seems to open both 

 ways at the same time, splitting into 4 parts, but 

 with this difference that the loculicidal division ex- 

 tends to the base, the septicidal only as far as the 

 top of the placenta, hence it appears to me it might, 



Neilgherries, frequent, flowering during the rainy except perhaps in habit, have accompanied the other 



Indian species, leaving Stemodia as an American, 



season- 

 This plant not unfrequently attains the height of Limnophila as an Indian genus. 



from 6 to 7 feet, though from 3 to 4 is the more 



common size^ Flowers yellow, nearly sessile, the ^ 1409. Limnophila 



short, bent filaments densely clothed with purplish 



coloured, woolly hairs. 



1406. Celsia CoROMAiVDEJLiiVA (Vahl), ramous, 

 below clothed with whitish pubescence or woolly, 

 above viscid: radical leaves lyrato-pinnatifid, the 

 superior ones and bracts oblong, ovate, or orbicular, 

 dentate: racemes sub-paniculate; pedicels longer 

 than the calyx: calyx lobes ovate, oblong or ser- 

 rated. 



Common all over the country, flowering during 



the rainy season. 



A plant so widely distributed and, apparently, 

 growing in all sorts of soils, from the marshy paddy 

 bank, up to arid gravels of Coromandel, is naturally 



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variable in its aspect. 



may be viewed as the ^.^^^ «.«««* — .^ 



but the specimen selected is a small one. 



normal 



1407. Mazus surculosus (Don), stoles creep- 

 ing : leaves inciso-crenate, rugous, hispid, some- 

 what crisp on the margin; those of the sterile 

 branches orbiculate: lobes of the calyx ovate, ob- 

 tuse, shorter than the tube: corolla scarcely twice 

 the length of the calyx.— Radical leaves from 1^ to 

 3 inches long, obovate, oblong; those of the stoles 



small, 



Himalayas, Mussuree, flowering in July. 



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dd^ted to Mr. Edgeworth, of the Bengal 

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HYPE RiciF OLIA (Bentham), 

 glabrous, rooting at the base, ascending: leaves 

 sessile, ovate, oblong, obtuse, cordately semianiplexi- 

 caul at the base; the floral ones smaller: racemes 

 terminal or axillary: flowers sessile, becoming re- 

 mote: calyx deeply 5-cleft, divisions lanceolate, the 

 posterior one larger. — Herbaceous, repent at the 

 base, scarcely branched, 1-2 feet high. Leaves 

 about an inch long, punctuate. Corolla 7-9 lines 

 long. Style winged at the bract with 2 acutish 

 falcate auricles. Capsule short, valvate, bifid. 



Kotergherry, Neilgherries, in swampy ground, 

 flowering in August* 



1410. Artanema sesamoides (Benth.), leaves 

 petioled, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, entire, or serra- 

 ted: pedicels shorter than the calyx: corolla sub- 

 campanulate, twice or scarcely thrice the length of 

 the calyx. — Herbs firom one to two feet high, stem 

 acutely 4-angIed. Leaves 3-5 inches long, 6-18 

 lines broad. Calyx at opening from 2 to 3 lines 

 long. Corolla 6-8 lines long. 



Malabar, in wet soil, flowering in June. 



1411. Bonnaya veronicifolia (Sprengel), stem 

 decumbent at the base or creeping; floriferous 

 branches ascending: leaves subsessile, narrowing 

 at the base, or the inferior ones petioled, oblong, 

 somewhat fleshy, acutely serrated, or the inferior 

 ones sub-entire : flowers racemose, capsules ascend- 

 ing, two or three times longer than the calyx. 



io taken. It was sent with many others, a few only Sterile filaments hooked at the point. Capsule 8-10 



of which, I regret to say, I have as yet been en- 

 abled to publish in this work. 



1408. Stemodia vis cos a (Roxb.), erect, pube- 

 scent, viscid: leaves sessile, ovate, oblong, or 

 lanceolate, acute, narrower towards the base; at 

 the base dilatato-cordate, stem clasping: flowers 

 axillary, solitary, the upper ones racemose : pedicels 

 twice the length of the calyx. — Plant from 10 to 15 

 inches high. Stem angled. Leaves often ternately 

 verticelled, the lower ones firom 1| to 2 inches long; 

 the upper ones decreasing in size. Corolla 4-5 lines 

 long, deep blue. Style much dilated at the apex. 



Frequent in moist or marshy grounds, rice fields, 

 borders of tanks, &c. 



lines long, curved, acute. 



Common every where in wet ground on the banks 

 of water courses, rice fields, &c., flowering during 

 the rainy and cool seasons. 



1412. BoNNAYA vERBEN^FOLiA (Spreug.), erect, 

 ascending or decumbent: leaves subsessile, or the 

 inferior ones petioled, oblong, lanceolate or ap- 

 proaching to linear, somewhat fleshy, entire or 

 serrated : flowers racemose: capsules ascending, 

 (erecto-patentibus, Benth.) two or three lines longer 



than the calyx. 



Common, like the preceding, in wet soil, and flow- 

 ering at the same seasons. It is nearly allied to it 

 in character and habit, but still seems quite distinct. 



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