242 ScropIndariacecB. \LimnopMla. 



Stem 2-3 ft., bluntly quadrangular, glandular-hair}', with 

 long branches ; 1. 2-3 in., passing into bracts above, oval- or 

 ovate-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, acute, coarsely crenate- 

 serrate, slightly glandular-hairy above, more so beneath^ 

 petiole short, obscure ; fl. rather large, on slender glandular- 

 hairy ped., solitary, axillary, forming long lax terminal 

 racemes leafy below, bractlets linear, rather shorter than sep. ; 

 sep, linear, subacute, with long glandular hair, the uppermost 

 broader and longer ; upper lip of cor. entire, lobes of lower 

 lip lanceolate, acute ; capsule \ in, (half as long as sep.) 

 pointed. 



Moist low country below 2000 ft.; in wet places, rather common. Fl. 

 March-May; bright yellow. 



Endemic. 



The whole plant dries black. Foliage very aromatic when bruised^ 

 but scarcely camphoraceous. 



3. A. capitatum, Benth. ex Fl. D. Ind. iv. 264 (1884). Nll- 

 grona-kola, S. 



Steniodia ca^iiphorafa, Moon Cat. 45 (non Vahl ). Pterostis^ma 

 capitatum^ Benth., Thw. Enum, 218. C, P. 2880. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 264. 



Stem 9-18 in., erect, very stout, cylindrical, densely villous- 

 hairy, with numerous slender whorled ascending branches ; 

 1. usually in whorls of 4, sessile, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, crenate-serrate, villous-hairy on both sides, copiously 

 gland-dotted beneath ; fl, small, sessile, whorled in axils of 

 leafy bracts, densely aggregated into short, rounded or ovoid, 

 terminal heads \-\ in. long, bractlets filiform, as long as sep. ; 

 sep. linear, equal in length, acute, very hairy ; capsule shorter 

 than Sep., globose, acuminate. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft.; rather common. About Colombo,, 

 abundant in the Cinnamon Gardens; Pasdun Korale. Fl. Nov.; bluish- 

 purple. 



Also in India, Burma, Malaya, China. 



Very aromatic ; the leaves are chewed with betel. Very like a Labiate 

 in appearance. 



Steniodia parvi/lora, Ait., a small annual from Trop. America, has 

 occurred as a weed in Dolosbagie District. 



3. ZiZBINOPHIIiA, Br. 



Annual, aquatic, 1. opp, or whorled, copiously gland- 

 dotted, the lower often pectinatcly cut, fl, axillary, racemose 

 or spicate, with or without bractlets ; sep. 5, equal ; upper lip 

 of cor. faintly bilobcd, lower 3-lobed ; stam. 4, didynamous. 



