292 XC. SCUOPUULAUIACE.li;. 



usually violet ; bracteoles ; pedicels filiform or 0. Calyx small, 5- 

 partite; segments narrow, imbricate. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube slender 

 below, dilated into a large throat ; upper lip outer, short, 2-fid ; lower 

 lip broad, 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens : 2 ujjper perfect; filaments fili- 

 form ; anther-cells parallel, distinct, equal; stamiuodes 2, minute, in- 

 cluded in the tube. Style short ; stigma 2-lamellate. Capsules globose 

 or oblong, loculicidal ; valves entire or rarely 2-fid, carrying away the 

 placentas. Seeds numerous, very small, tuberculate. — Distbib. Asia, 

 Africa, and Australia ; sp 'cies 5, 



1. Dopatrium junceum, Buch.-Hain. in Beath.Scroph. Ind. (1835) 

 p. 31. Somewhat fieshy ; stems 6-12 iu. long, usually jnuch-branched 

 at the base, the lower part swollen and spongy, the upper part slender. 

 Leaves few, sessile, the lower oblong, elliptic or slightly obovate, obtuse, 

 4-1 by \ in., the upper much smaller, remote, bract-like. Flowers 

 axillary, opposite, distant ; pedicels 0-1 in. long, filiform, erect in fruit. 

 Calyx -^ in. long, divided rather more than ^-way down ; segments 

 oblong, obtuse. Corolla ^-i in. long, pale pinkish-violet. Ovary glo- 

 bose, 1-celled with 2 parietal placentas ; style stout, about -^ in. long ; 

 stigma broad, 2-lamellate. Capsules -^^ in. in diam., globose, 1-celled. 

 Seeds ^ in. long, oblong, tuberculate. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 274; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 142 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 178 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 247 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174. Gratiola jimcea, Eoxb. Cor. 

 PL V. 2 (1798) "p. 16, t. 129.— Flowers : July-Sept. 



Swampy places, Dalzell ^- Gibson. Deccan : Neral, Kanitkar\, Bhival, Woodroir. 

 Kanara: Woodroir. — Disthib. Throughout India iu swampy places j Ceylon, Malay 

 Islands, China, Japan, Philippines, Australia. 



11. TORENIA, Linn. 



Glabrous or pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, entire, crenate or 

 serrate. Flowers often showy, axillary or in terminal or pseudo-axillary 

 umbels or racemes ; bracteoles 0. Calyx tubular, 3-5-winged, or plaited, 

 or keeled, 2-lipped or 3-5-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube cyUndric, 

 somewhat curved, dilated upwards ; upper lip erect, concave or pinched, 

 notched or 2-fid; lower larger, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didy- 

 namous ; the 2 upper included in and aduate to the tube ; the 2 lower 

 adnate to the throat, often appendaged at the base, conniving under the 

 upper lip ; anthers touching or cohering in pairs, the cells often con- 

 fluent. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many in each cell ; style slender ; 

 stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule linear or oblong, not exceeding the calyx ; 

 valves separating from the placentiferous dissepiment. Seeds rugose or 

 cancellate. — Distrik. Species 20, tropical Asiatic and African, one of 

 them also American. 



Stem erect or suberect ; calyx winged ; longer pair of filaments 



not toothed at the base 1. T. cord if alia. 



Stem creeping ; calyx ribbed but not winged ; longer pair of 



filaments toothed at the base 2. T. bicolor, 



1. Torenia cordifolia, lloxh. Cor. PI. v. 2 (1798) p. 32, t. 161. 

 An erect or suberect sparsely hairy herb 4-10 in. high; stems and 

 branches 4-angled or sometimes almost 4-winged. Leaves f-l^ by 

 4-1 in., ovate, acute or subobtuse, sharply serrate, glabrous, base usually 



