288 XC. SCROPHULARIACE.E. 



septicidally, or valves 4 dehiscing both septicidally and locuhcidally. 

 Seeds minute, numerous. — Distrib, Tropical and S. America, Austraha, 

 Africa, Tropical Asia; species about 26. 



Flowers pedicellerl ; coi-olla twice as long as tlie calyx 1. S. viscosa. 



Flowers subsessile ; corolla scarcely longer than the calyx 2. S. serrata. 



1. Stemodia viscosa, Roxh. Cor. PI. v. 2 (1798) p. 33, t. 163. 

 Erect, much-branched, 3-24 in. high, aromatic ; stem and branches 

 angular, viscidly pubescent. Leaves variable, |-1| by §-| in., sessile, 

 usually oblong, acute (rarely obovate), serrulate or subeutire, glandular- 

 pubesL-eut or nearly glabrous, usually tapering, often cordate and 

 amplexicaul at the base. Flowers axillary, solitary, or in terminal few- 

 flowered racemes; pedicels fihform, i-^- in. long; bracteoles 2, a little 

 below the calyx, linear-subulate, -^ in. long. Calyx ^ in. long, 5-partite; 

 sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, glandular-hairy and ciliate. Corolla 

 ^ in. long, violet, glabrous ; upper lip broad, entire or emarginate ; 

 lower lip hairy in the throat, with 3 rounded or emarginate lobes of 

 about equal length, the mid-lobe the broadest. Filaments glabrous ; 

 anther-cells shortly stalked, suborbicular. Ovary glabrous. Capsules 

 5 in. long, ovoid-oblong, acuminate, glabrous, 4-valved, slightly longer 

 than the sepals. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, about J^ in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 4, 

 p. 265 ; Grab. Cat. p. 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 176 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1408 ; 

 AVoodr. in Jom-n. Bomb, Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod.v. 6, part 3, p. 359. — Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



KoNKAN : Sfocksl; Kalyan (rice-field near Railway Station), Woodrow] Deccan : 

 Woodrow\; Kolhapur, Cooke \ Gujarat : Vera wal, Woodrow, Unkleshyar, Woodrow — 

 DiSTKin. Central and Western India; Afghanistan. 



2. Stemodia serrata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. v. 10 (1846) p, 381. 

 A robust leafy erect viscidly-pubescent annual ; stem obtuse, 4-angled. 

 Leaves |-lj by g-^ in., sessile, narrowly obovate-oblong, acute, serrulate 

 above the middle, entire below it, base narrowed, amplexicaul. Flowers 

 subsessile, or very shortly pedicelled, axillary, solitary; bracteoles 2 

 beneath the calyx, linear-subulate, about -^-^ in. long. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 divided almost to the base, glandular-hairy ; segments ^ in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute. Corolla -^^ in. long; upper lip bifid ; lower lip with 

 3 subequal, oblong obtuse lobes. Ovary glabrous. Capsules hnear-oblong, 

 acute, slightly shorter than the persistent calyx, glabrous. Seeds minute, 

 less than -^ in, long, oblong-ellipsoid. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 265 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174.— Flowers : Dec.-Feb. 



Konkan: Stocks], Law\; Fen, Kaniikarl — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula); Nubia, 

 Egypt, Senegaiubia. 



9. LIMNOPHILA, E. Br. 



Herbs often paludine or aquatic, glabrous or pubescent, aromatic. 

 Leaves transparently dotted, opposite or whorled, toothed or cut, or, 

 where submerged, oi'ten mullifid. Flowers sessile or pedicelled, axillary, 

 solitary, or passing into terminal spikes or racemes ; bracts usually leafy; 

 bracteoles small or 0. Calyx 5-partite ; segments subequal or the upper 

 the largest. Corolla 2-lipped; tube cylindric ; upper lip outermost, 

 suberect, entire or 2-fid ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, throat not plicate. 

 Stamens 4, didynaraouB, included ; anther-cells usually separate and 

 stalked, rarely contiguous. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules numerous in each 



