264 fRlMULACEi^. 



** (Large form). Stem as thick as a lead pencil, 

 growing up to 4 feet, finely pubescent with red or yellow 

 hairs, not so well clothed as the ordinary form, because 

 the axillary buds are not so leafy. Leaves spreading, 

 narrowed to the broad short stalk, elliptic, acute, margin 

 finely waved, pinkish and the veins purple, with 

 numerous superficial purple dots of various sizes, and 

 also internal brown glands. Flowers in racemes 

 terminating the axis and branches : lower bracts leaf- 

 like, longer than the pedicels, which run up to l^ inches. 

 Sepals \i inch, mauve. Corolla pink, funnel-shaped ; 

 tube 1/16 inch; lobes ^ inch; the lowest 1/12 inch 

 contracted to slightly less than the tube, the upper 

 J4 inch, flat and spreading, broadly obovate. Stamens 

 at the mouth of the corolla, exactly equal to the petals; 

 filaments subulate, pink, anthers dark purple. 



Pulneys : in sholas, higher than Kodaikanal. Fyson 2059. 

 Bourne 1852.* 



The height, 6 to 8 feet, given in F.B.I, is unusual and perhaps due to an 

 error in the reading of a Collector's note on a sheet at Kew (which rather 

 lends itself to such a mistake). The plant is usually much less. 



This species is closely allied to and somewhat similar to the European 

 L. vulgaris. Eng. Yellow Loosestrife. Fr. Corneille. Ger. Goldfelberich. 



Lysimachia dcltoidcs Wight, Cat. 109 ! ; F.B.I, iii 505, 

 V 14 ; Creeping Jenny. A trailing herb with, mostly 

 opposite, ovate leaves and flat yellow flowers ; closely 

 allied to and not unlike the Creeping Jenny of England. 



Stem slender, round, pubescent, purple or brownish, 

 prostrate; all except the corolla hairy or pubescent. 

 Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, their stalks J^ to 

 H inch, brownish purple like the stem ; blades broadly 

 ovate, of the lowest leaves as little as ^ inch long, of the 

 middle ones M by J^ inch larger or smaller, usually more 

 or less erect. Pedicels solitary in the leaf-axils, slender, 

 % to 2 inches. Sepals ^ inch, lanceolate, acute, covered 

 outside and in with small red glands. Petals J4 by i/s 



