Plants of the Puniab. 535 
Prostrate Herpes with Opposite ExstipuntaAte Simpte Leavss. 
Mazus surculosus, 
SCROPHULARIACES. 
FE. Bs ave 260; 
Himalaya, 
east of the Sutle], 
3-7,000 ft. 
Simla, the Glen 
* (Collett). 
Valley below the 
Convent. 
Garden at Barne: 
Court. 
Herpestis monniera, 
Barambhi, safed 
chamni. 
SCROPHULARIACES. 
Bo Bivkiav. 272: 
The Plains to 
4,000 ft. 
Sutle] Valley, Suni 
(Collett). 
In wet ground. 
Vandellia 
pedunculata, 
SCROPHULARIACE®. 
Rb ledve 282: 
The Plains in 
swamps. 
Bonnaya brachiata, 
Bonnaya 
veroniceefolia, 
SCROPHULARIACER. 
F. B. I. iv. 285. 
The Plains. 
PETALS UNITED. 
small, perennial, nearly smooth, stems often tufted 
with long leafy runners rooting at the joints; radical 
leaves 1-3 in., broadly ovate with a wide tip, narrowed to 
a stalk-hke base, irregularly toothed, often pinnately 
divided at the base, stem leaves similar but smaller ; 
flowers 4-% in., pale blue or white in terminal racemes, 
calyx shortly 5-toothed, bell-shaped, corolla 2-lipped, 4-4 
in. long, tube short, upper lip erect, 2-lobed, lower much 
larger, spreading, 3-lobed, with 2 prominent yellow glan- 
dular ridges at the base, stamens 4, in unequal pairs, en- 
closed, stigma flat, 2-lobed ; capsule enclosed in the calyx, 
round or flattened, blunt, valves entire, seeds many, very 
minute, ovoid. 
small, perennial, quite smooth, creeping, rather sue- 
culent, branching, 4-10 im. long, rooting at the joints; 
leaves $-? in., oblong-ovate with a broad tip, blunt, sessile, 
entire ; flowers nearly } in. diam., pale blue, purple veined, 
single on alternate axillary stalks, longer than the leaves, 
bracteoles 2, calyx 4-3 in., deeply 5-lobed, lobes unequal, 
upper ovate, short-pointed, corolla tube cylindric, longer 
than the calyx, lobes 4, spreading, nearly equal, upper 
one notched, stamens 4, in unequal pairs, enclosed style 
linear, stigma round, 2-lobed ; capsule 2-grooved, ovoid, 
short-pointed, seeds many, very minute. This plant ig 
used by Hindus as a diuretic and aperient. 
small, annual, smooth, stem sometimes creeping, 
branches 4-10 in., slender, prostrate ; leaves 4-1 in., ovate, 
slightly round-toothed, blunt or nearly short-pointed, 
shortly stalked ; flowers small, white or pale blue with a 
white spot, stalked, solitary, axillary or in racemes, sepals 5, 
+ in., free, half as long as the linear-lanceolate capsule, 
corolla tube cylindric, 2-lipped, upper lip erect, broad, 
concave, notched, lower broad, spreading, 3-lobed, stamens 
4, 2 posterior usually enclosed, 2 anterior arched with a 
small blunt tooth, stigma divided; capsule 4 in., seeds 
wrinkled. 
see Herbs, Erect, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 
Toothed. 
like Vandellia pedunculata, but leaves oblong or ob- 
long-lanceolate or ovate with a broad tip and toothed, 
flower violet, stamens 2, staminodes 2, capsule projecting 
far beyond the calyx. 
