Torenia. didynamia angiospermia. 95 



Found on old walls about Calcutta. It flowers during the 

 rains. 



Root ranious, seems perennial. Steins many, ascending, 

 ranious, herbaceous, woody, somewhat viscous, the whole 

 plant about twelve or eighteen inches high. Leaves oppo- 

 site, petioh'd, ovate, deeply serrate, soft, a little hairy; 

 about an inch long. Petioles shorter than the leaves, chan- 

 nelled. Stipules none. Flowers axillary, sub-sessile, soli- 

 tary, opposite, small, yellow. Calf/x ten-furrowed, five- 

 toothed, permanent. r*oro/ 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. Sckreb.gen. N. 1011. 



Calyx bilabiate. Corol irregular, one pair of the filaments 

 with a barren branchlet. Capsule two-celled, many-seeded; 

 partition parallel. 



1. T.cordijblia. Corom.pl. '\\.p, %f, IGl. 



Annual, brachiate, four-sided. Leaves petioled, cordate, 

 serrate. Calyx two-cleft, \\\i\\ divisions two and three-toothed. 



Nut cordate, serrate. Calyx two-cleft, with divisions two 

 and (hree-toothed. 



Corosinam. Rheed. Mai. ix. t. G8. 



A native of the Circars, appearing in the dry season. 



2. T. diffusa. 



Annual, difluse. Leaves sessile, cordate, serrate. Flowers 

 solitary, long-peduncled. Cabjx five-parted, superior fila- 

 ments with a sterile branch. 



V^andellia diffusa. Willd. iii. 343. 



