144 SCROPKTJLAKIACEM. [ Stemodia. 



M. rugosus, Lour, Fl Cohinch. 385 ; Boyle III 291 ; F. B. I. iv, 259 ; 

 Collett Fl. Siml 351 ; Prain Beng. PI. 759. Columnea tomentosa, Boxb. 

 Fl. Ind. Hi, 98. 



A small glabrous or sparsely hairy annual. Stems tufted, without run- 

 ners. Badical leaves crowded, 1-3 in. Ion?, oblong or obovate-spathu- 

 late, coarsely crenate, narrowed to the base into a short petiole. Scapes 

 many from the root, 2-10 in. long, leafless or with a few spathulate 

 leaves. Bacem.es terminal, 1-6 in. lonpr, bracteoles none. Flowers 

 pale-blue or white streaked with blue. Calyx £ in. long ; lobes half 

 as long as the tube, ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading in fruit. 

 Corolla i-| in. long. Capsule £in., globose. Seeds very minute, pale- 

 yellow. 



Chiefly in the northern districts of the area, in the sub-Himalayan tracts 

 from Dehra Dun eastwards, Moradabad (T Thomson). Agra (Munro). 

 Disteib. Punjab Plain, Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan up to 

 7,000 ft., Pengal, Burma and the Malay Peninsula ; also in Afghanistan, 

 extending to China, Japan, Java and the Philippines. 



9. STEMODIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 265. 



Herbs, sometimes woody below, glandular- pubescent and often 

 aromatic. Leaves opposite or sometimes whorled. Flowers solitary, 

 axillary, passing into terminal leary spikes or dense racemes ; bracts 

 leaf-like, bracteoles 1 or 2. Calyx 6-paitite ; segments narrow, 

 imbricate, equal or the upper somewhat larger. Corolla 2-lipped, 

 tube cylindric ; upper lip suberect, entire or notcheJ, outside in 

 bud ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, throat not plicate. Stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, included ; anther-cells distinct, stipitate, all fertile. Ovary 

 2-celled ; style filiform, dilated but not winged at the apex, stigma 

 ■usually 2-lobed. Fruit a globose ovoid or acuminate capsule ; valves 

 2, bifid and dehiscing septicidally, or 4-valved and dehiscing both 

 septicidillv and loculicidallv. Seeds many, minute. — Species about 

 30, in tropical regions of both hemispheres. 



S. vlscosa, Boxb. Cor. PI. ii, 33, t. 163 ; Fl. Ind. Hi, 94 ; F.B.I, iv, 



265 ; Watt E. D. ; Prain Beng. PI. 761 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 288. 



An erect viscidly pubescent aromatic herb, 3-24 in. high ; stem and branches 

 angular. Leaves £-lf in. long, sessile, usually ohlong, tapering to 

 the base, or the upper cordate-amplexicaul, acute or rarely obovate at 

 the apex, glandular-pubescent or subglabrous, margins serrulate or 

 subentire. Flowers axillary, solitary or in terminal, few-flowered 

 racemes ; pedicels filiform, ^-£ in. long, bracteoles J, close under the 

 calyx, linear-subulate. Calyx -g- in. long ; segments narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, glandular-hairy and ciliate. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, 



