XC. SCHOPHULABIACEil':. 291 



Trim, Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 244. LimnophUa heterophylla, AVoodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174 {not of Benth.).— Flowers : Oct.-Nov. 



Deccan : Mahableshwar, Cooke !, Woodrow ! S. M. Country : Belgaum, Cooke ! 

 — DiSTRiB. Throughout India in rice-fields and swampy places ; Ceylon, Java, Japan. 



6. Ijimnophila racemosa, Benfh. So-ojjh. Ind. (1835) p. 26. Stem 

 1-2 ft. long or in deep water longer, stout, erect, mostly submerged, 

 glabrous or hairy. Upper leaves sessile, 1^-2 by J-| in., opposite or 

 3-nately whorled, g-amplexicaul and somewhat rounded at the base, 

 oblong-lanceolate, serrate-dentate, glabrous, strougly 3-5-nerved ; lower 

 leaves submerged, capillaeeo-multifid, often deflexed and root-like. 

 Flowers large, usually in long erect leafy racemes 2-4 in. long ; brac- 

 teoles jl^ in. long, linear-subulate ; pedicels ^-| in. long, filiform. Calyx 

 -^ in. long, thinly membranous, glabrous, not striate in fruit, divided 

 about l^-way down ; segments deltoid-ovate, acute, sometimes colored. 

 Corolla i in. or more long, pale-violet ; lobes of the upper lip short, 

 rounded, those of the lower lip ovate, acute. Capsules subglobose, -g- in. 

 long, enclosed in the membranous calyx. Seeds scarcely ^^ in. long, 

 truncate at both ends. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 271 ; Gi-rah. Cat. p. 144 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 177 ; Wight, Icon. t. 861 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 245 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174. Cyrilla aquatica, 

 Eoxb. Cor. PI. V. 2 (1798) p. 47, t. 189.— Flowers : Nov.-Jan. Veen. 

 Mahaha. 



KoNKAN : Law\; Matheran, Coo^"e!, Woodrow \ S. M. Country: Belgaum, Cooke\ 

 Kanaka : N. Kanara, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Bengal, Eajputana, W. Peninsula) ; 

 Ceylon, Java. 



7. Ijimnophila gratioloides, R. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 442. A 

 small plant 3-8 in. high, smelling strougly of turpentine ; stems sub- 

 quadrangular, slender, rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous, sti-iate, 

 usually much branched from the base. Leaves usually all whorled or 

 pinnatifid, the upper sometimes entire and opposite, |-| by jV-g i^-j 

 linear-oblong, serrate-dentate, 1-nerved, the lowest sometimes, though 

 not commonly, capillaeeo-multifid. Flowers solitary, axillary or race- 

 mose ; bracteoles -^ in. long, linear-subulate ; pedicels i-^ in. long, 

 filiform, divaricate. Calyx membranous, thinly and finely glandular, 

 not striate in fruit, ^^ in. long in flower, hemispheric in fruit, divided 

 scarcely |-way down ; segments narrowly triangular, acute. Corolla 

 pink, I" in. long. Capsules broadly ovoid or subglobose, \ in. long. 

 Seeds -^ in. long, trimcate or obscurely rounded at the ends. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 4, p. 271 ; Grab. Cat. p. 143 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 177 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 3, p. 245 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174.— 

 Flowers : Nov.-Jan. Veen. Turti. 



On the margins of tanks and in rice-fields. Konkan : Stocks ! ; Pen, Woodrow ; 

 Matheran, Cooke ! Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrow ! ; Mahableshwar, Woodrow ; rice-fields 

 near Poona, Gangaram ! Gujarat : Dakor, Wcodrotv. — Distrib. Throughout India 

 in wet places ; Ceylon, Beluchistan, Malayan Archipelago, China, Australia, Tropical 

 Africa. 



10. DOP ATRIUM, Buch.-Ham. 



Annual slender glabrous marsh herbs. Leaves few, opposite, the 

 lower small, the upper remote, minute. Flowers small, solitary, axillary, 



