SCROPHULARIACEAE 423 
Crevices of the old city walls, on old building, etc., fl. all the year; 
widely distributed in Luzon. Chittagong, Tenasserim, Burma, China, and 
Java. 
6. LIMNOPHILA R. Brown 
Glabrous or pubescent, aromatic, gland-dotted, usually marsh or water 
plants. Leaves opposite or whorled, toothed, cut, or in submerged plants 
multifid. Flowers sessile or pedicelled, solitary, racemed, or spicate, 
bracteoles present or absent. Sepals narrow, subequal, or the posterior 
one larger. Corolla-tube cylindric, the upper lip entire or 2-fid, the lower 
spreading, 3-fid. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs, included. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 
dehiscent. (Greek “swamp” and “to love,’ from the habitat of most 
species.) 
Species about 25, Africa, Asia, through Malaya to Australia and Poly- 
nesia, about 8 in the Philippines. 
Leaves shortly petioled, narrowed at the base; flowers pedicelled. 
1. L. manilensis 
Leaves sessile, base broad, somewhat clasping the stem; flowers sessile. 
2. L. fragrans 
1. L. manilensis Merr. 
An erect or spreading, simple or ultimately much branched, more or 
less pubescent, aromatic herb, the stems up to 50 cm in length, usually 
much shorter: Leaves opposite, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, sessile, 
serrulate, acute or obtuse, 1.5 to 3 em long. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
shortly pedicelled. Calyx 5 to 6 mm long, somewhat pubescent, the tube 
green, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, purple. Corolla purple, about 9 m 
long. Capsule ovoid, 3 to 4 mm long. 
In open wet grass lands, La Loma, Caloocan, etc., fl. Dee—Feb.; of local 
occurrence in the Philippines. Endemic. 
2. L. fragrans (Forst. f.) Seem. (L. serrata Gaudich.). 
A procumbent or ascending, usually simple, aromatic, glabrous or nearly 
glabrous plant, usually less than 20 cm high. Leaves oblong, serrate, 1 
to 2 cm long, sessile, the base broad and somewhat clasping the stems. 
Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary. Calyx glabrous, the segments lanceo- 
late, acuminate. Corolla very pale lilac, about as long as the calyx. 
In low wet places, old rice paddies, etc., San Lazaro, Guadalupe, etc., 
fl. Dec—Jan.; of local occurrence in the Philippines. Malay Archipelago 
to Polynesia. 
7. MAZUS Loureiro 
Small herbs, the leaves below opposite or rosulate, above opposite or 
alternate. Flowers in terminal racemes, the bracteoles small. Calyx 
campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla-tube short, the upper lip erect, 2-fid, the 
lower much larger, spreading, 3-fid, the throat with a 2-lobed palate. 
Stamens 4, in 2 pairs. Capsule included in the calyx, globose, loculicidal. 
Seeds minute, numerous. (Greek “nipple” from the papillae at the corolla 
throat.) 
Species about 12, mostly Asiatic, 1 in Australia, the following extending 
to the Philippines. 
1. M. japonicus (Thunb.) O. Kuntze. (M. rugosus Lour.). 
An annual, erect, glabrous or somewhat hairy herb 6 to 20 cm high. 
Basal leaves numerous, crowded, subrosulate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, crenate, 
