172 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Erect, with Opposite ExstTIpULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Vandellia crustacea, 
SCROPHULARIACES. 
BBs sie, 299. 
The Plains to 
3,000 ft. 
Sutle} Valley 
(Collett). 
Vandellia erecta, 
SCROPHULARIACES. 
FE. B. Liv. 281. 
The Plains. 
Ilysanthes parviflora, 
SCROPHULARIACE®. 
Pts. bv. 280. 
The Plains. 
Lear Maroins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
COROLLA TWO-LIPPED. 
STAMENS FOUR. 
small, annual, found in marshes, much and widely 
branched from the root in threes, smooth or slightly hairy ; 
leaves 3-1 in., sometimes toothed, ovate or lanceolate, 
shortly stalked ; flowers } in. long, pale purple, solitary 
on axillary straight slender stalks, $-13 in. long, or crowded 
towards the ends of branches, calyx ; in. and in fruit 
1 in., shortly 5-lobed, longer than the capsule, nearly 
bell-shaped, not angled, corolla 2-ipped, upper lip erect, 
notched, lower broader, horizontal, 3-lobed, stamens 4, 
in unequal pairs, 2 anterior longer with curved filaments 
spurred near the base, 2 posterior, usually included, an- 
thers touching or joiming in pairs under the upper lip, 
style curved, stigma flat, 2-lobed; capsule shorter than 
the calyx, oblong-ovate, blunt, opening through the lines 
of junction, seeds wrinkled. 
very like the last species, but smaller, and more 
erect, quite smooth, leaves sessile oblong with rounded 
ends, flower stalks twice as long as the leaves, calyx lobes 
shorter than the rounded ovoid capsule. 
small, annual, usually much branched, found in 
marshes ; leaves {-1 in., ovate with ends rounded or linear- 
oblong, sessile, usually untoothed ; flowers §-; in. long, 
white or blue, on threadlike stalks }-} in. long in the axils 
of leaves or at the end of branches in racemes, calyx half 
the length of the corolla, lobes narrowly lanceolate, corolla 
2-lipped, }4-} in., tube cylindric, upper lip erect, concave, 
notched, lower larger, spreading, 3-lobed, stamens 4, 2 
upper perfect, enclosed in the corolla, filaments thread- 
like, anthers meeting, 2 lower 2-lobed, one lobe 
slandular, the other smooth, style single, stigma round, 
consisting of 2 plates; capsule ovate, oblong, short- 
pointed, longer than the calyx. 
