XC. SCROPHULARIACE,!:. 289 



cell ; style slender, deflexed at the top ; stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule 

 ovoid or oblong, opening both septicidally and loculicidally, the placeuti- 

 ferous dissepiment separating with the valves. Seeds numerous, small, 

 angular, truncate. — Disteib. AVarmer regions of Atrica, Asia, and 

 Australia ; species about 25. 



Leaves pinnately nerved ; no whorls of piunatiiid or multifid 

 leaves. 



Calyx not striate in fruit ; leaves opposite, petiolate ; 



flowers sessile 1. L. Bo.vhiirghii. 



Calyx striate in fruit. 



Flowers se.^sile 2. L. confcrta. 



Flowers pedicellate 3. L. gratissima. 



Leaves with 3-5 parallel nerves running from base to tip, or 

 lower leaves wiiorled, pinnatifid or multifid ; fi'uiting 

 calyx not striate. 



Flowers sessile or nearly so. 



Flowers white, in terminal and axillary often divari- 

 cately branched slender spikes 2-3 in. long 4. L. polystachya. 



Flowers pink, usually axillary, solitary 5. L. sessilifioi-a. 



Flowers pedicellate; pedicels usually longer than the 

 calyx. 



Stem 1-2 ft. ; coi'olla ^ in. long or more 6. L.racemout. 



Stem 3-8 in. ; corolla \ in. long. Plant smelling 



strongly of turpentine 7. L. gratioloides. 



1. Limnophila Roxburghii, G. Don, Gen. Si/st. v. 4 (1837) p. 543 

 (not of Benth.). An erect veiy aromatic herb 1-2 ft. high ; stems many, 

 stout, glabrous. Leaves all opposite, 1-3 by -f-lj in., elliptic-lanceolate, 

 acute or subobtuse, crenulate, glabrous or pubescent, often hairy on the 

 nerves beneath, transparent-dotted, base acute ; main nerves pinnate, 

 arching from the midrib, numerous, strong and prominent beneath ; 

 petioles variable, sometimes reaching | in. long, sometimes hardly any. 

 Flowers sessile, in axillary shortly pedunculate heads, rarely solitary. 

 Calyx not divided quite to the base, pubescent outside ; tube y\^ in. long ; 

 upper segment ^ in. long, linear-oblong, subobtuse, ciliate, broader than 

 the other 4 which are -1- in. long, narrowly lanceolate, very acute, ciliate. 

 Corolla rather less than | in. long, bluish-purple with a yellow mouth, 

 pubescent outside ; lower lip with yellow hairs in the throat. Capsules 

 ^ in, long, oblong-ellipsoid, glabrous. Seeds scarcely -^\ in. long, angular, 

 truncate. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 265 ; Grab. Cat. p. 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 177 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174. Limnophila 

 Menthasfrum, Benth. in DC. Prod. v. 10, p. 386 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 177.— 

 Flowers : Sept. 



Konkan: Stocks'.; Talkut GhAt, BalzcH 4' Gihso7i. Kanaka: Kum-pta,, Woodroiv, — 

 Disteib. More or less throughout India ; Java, China, Philippines, Pacific Islands. 



2. Limnophila conferta, Benth. in DC. Prodr. v. 10(1846) p. 387. 

 Erect or procumbent ; stem stout, spongy, usually prostrate or floating 

 below, with long roots from the nodes, glabrous or more or less hairy. 

 Leaves with a strong camphoraceous odor and taste, subsessile, I-I4 in. 

 long, oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, crenate-serrate, punctate beneath, 

 rather thick, dull pale-green, glabrous, base narrowed or subamplexicaul ; 

 nerves inconspicuous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in short leafy axillary 

 spikes ; bracteoles beneath the calyx y^^ in. long, linear-subulate. Calyx 

 \-\ in. long, not divided quite to the base, usually hairy, becoming striate 



