PrimuLace^. 265 



inch, ovate, obtuse, with a few red glands, and connected 

 only at the base into a tube of 1/20 inch. Stamens five : 

 filaments connate at the base into a tube 1/20 inch, 

 seated on the corolla tube and bent abruptly inwards 

 above: anthers 1/16 inch opening inwards. Fruit a 

 capsule, t. 181. Wight 111. t. 144. 



On cool shady banks and on the open damp hill-side. 

 Pulney downs : in and near Kodaikanal. Nilgiris : Ootaca- 

 mund, Pykara and Coonoor. Fyson 310, 2125. Bour?ie 1157. 



Gen. Dist, Ceylon, Nilgiris and Pulney mountains only. 



All the sheets from both the Nilgiri and Pulney mountains at Kew 

 (August 1914) are named in Sir J, D. Hooker's writing *' z^ar cordifolia." 

 Wight's Herb. Prop. No. 109, named by him " L. deltoides t^.TF. " and 

 presumably therefore the type plant, is a Ceylon specimen. I am unable 

 to distinguish it from ours. 



Closely allied to the European L. nummularia L., Eng. Creeping 

 Jenny or Money-wort, Fr. Chasseborse, Ger. Egelkraut ; and also to L. 

 nemorum Z., Eng. Yellow Pimpernel, Fr. Corneille de bois. 



ANAGALLIS. f.b.i. 87 vn. 



Slender herbs with opposite entire leaves and solitary 

 blue or red flowers stalked, without bracteoles in the leaf- 

 axils, and characterised by the flat corolla of five lobes 

 twisted in bud, the filaments of the stamens hairy, and 

 the globose, circumciss, capsule (opening by a transverse 

 slit). Seeds numerous plano-convex, attached by the 

 middle. 



Species in north temperate regions and temperate South 

 America. 



Anagallis arvcnsis Linn.; F.B.I, iii 506, VII I ; common 

 Pimpernel. Stem weak, four-angled. Leaves opposite, 

 subsessile, ovate, glabrous, gland-dotted, entire. Flowers 

 on long slender pedicels in the leaf-axils. Sepals five, 

 linear, J4 inch. Corolla J^ inch, pink or less often blue. 

 Capsule globose surmounted by the style, and opening 

 by an equatorial split. Seeds many. Wight Sp. Nilg. 

 t. 133 (A. latifolia). 



