2 54 ScrophulariacecE . \Peplidiitm. 



Throughout Tropical Asia. 



Variable in habit and inflorescence. Hermann gives ' Hiramana" as 

 the Sinhalese name for this. 



3. B. tenuifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 42 (1825). 



Gratiola tenitifolia., Vahl, Enum. i. 96 ; Moon Cat. 4. Thw. I!num. 

 220. C. P. 2883. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 286. 



Stem erect, 4-6 in., with erect branches from the base,, 

 glabrous; 1. i-i^ in., linear or linear-lanceolate, entire or very 

 slightly toothed ; fl. on rather long deflexed ped., axillary; 

 sep. linear, acute. 



Sandy damp places in the low country, rare (?). Peradeniya (Thwaites) \ 

 Kalutara (Macrae). 



Also in India, Burma, and China. 



I do not know this species, of which there are very indifferent speci- 

 mens in Herb. Perad. It seems to be very close to Vandellia angusti- 

 folia and Ilysanthes hyssopzoides, and is probably often confounded with 

 them. 



II. IHZCROCARPSiA, Br. 



Minute annual, 1. opp., sessile, oblong, fl. minute, axillary^ 

 without bractlets ; cal. tubular, segm. 5 ; cor.-tube short and 

 broad, lobes 5, two upper slightly connate ; stam. 2, anth.- 

 cells confluent, no staminodes ; stigma not 2-bladed ; capsule 

 loculicidally 2-valved. — Monotypic. 



Tit. muscosa, Br. Prodr. 436 (18 10). 



Thw. Enum. 220. Benth. in DC. Prod. .x. 433. C. P. 2728. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 287. 



Stems very slender, filiform, creeping, rooting at nodes, 

 much branched and matted, quadrangular, glabrous ; 1. very- 

 small, under \ in., oblong-linear, obtuse, glabrous ; fl. solitary, 

 sessile; cal. -tube 5-ribbcd, glabrous, segm. short, acute, 

 slightly ciliate, spreading. 



Creeping on mud, in moist low country, rather common. Kitulgala; 

 Bentota ; Kalutara; Ambagamuwa. Fl. March-May. 

 Also in India, Burma, Java, China, Australia. 

 A minute herb with the habit of Callitriche stagnalis. 



12. PEPXiZSZUBZ, Del. 



Small annual, 1. opp., spathulate, fl. axillary ; cal. tubular, 

 enlarged in fruit, segm, 5, short ; cor.-tube short and broad, 

 lobes 5, lowest the widest ; stam. 2, fil. curved, anth. i -celled, 

 no staminodes ; stigma large, flat, tongue-shaped, curved ; 

 capsule globose, bursting irregularly. — Sp. 2 ; i in Fl. B. Ind. 



