Limxophila. ] SCROPRULARIACRM. 145 



violet, glabrous, tubo compreaaed, lower lip hairy in t v n throat, lobea 

 about equal in length, Filaments glabrous ; anther-cells shortly stalked 

 sub-<>rbieular. "niry glabrous. Capsules - in. long, ovrid-oblong, 

 aouminate, 4 valve d and glabrous. 



Common within the area, especially in rice-fields and in swampy ground. 

 Flowers daring the ci>ld season. DibTEiB. W. Behar, C. and S. India; 

 also in Afghanistan. 



10. LIMNOPHILA, R. Br.\ Fl. Brit. Ind.iv, 265. 



Glabrous or pubescent aromatic herbs, often aquatic or paludine. 

 Leaves with transparent dots, opposite or whorled, toothed or incised, 

 often tnultiBd when submerged. Flowers sessile or pedicelled, 

 axillary, solitary or passing into terminal spikes or racemes ; bracts 

 leaf-like, bracteoles small or none. Calyx 5-partire, segments sub- 

 equal or the posterior larger. Corolla 2-lipped, tube cylindric ; upper 

 lip outside in bud, suherect, entire or 2-fid. ; lower spieading, 3-l<»bed, 

 throat not plicate. Stamen* didynamous, included ; anther-cells 

 usually separate, s^ipitate. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, deflexed at 

 the tip, stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit an ovoid or oblong capsule, opening 

 both septicidally and loculicidally, the placentiferous dissepiment 

 separating with the valves. Seeds many, small, angular, reticulate. — 

 Spe.-ies about 30, in the warmer parts of Africa, Asia and Australia. 



Flowers sessile or nearly ao . . . 1. L. sessiliflon. 



Flowers stalked, the pedicels usually longer 

 than the calyx ; — 



Stems 1-2 ft., corolla \ in long or more . 2. L. racemosa. 



Stems 3-8 in., corolla $ in. long. . . . 3. L. gratioloides. 



1. L. sessiliflora, Blume Bijdr. 749; F.B.I, iv, 270 ; Prain Beng. PL 

 764 i Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 290. 



A small pubescent or subglabrous herb. Stem rather stout, 4-8 in. long. 

 Leaves sessile or nearly so, usually 3-6 in a whorl ; the upper often 

 undivided, lanceolate, acute, serrate or dentate, 3-nerved, the lower 

 divided into numerous very narrow segments. Flower* solitary, 

 axillary. Calyx less than -*- in. long, glandular hairy, divided 

 about -j way down ; tube hemispheric in fruit, membranous not s rriate ; 

 lobea ovate, long-aciminate. Corolla i in. long, pink. Capsule $ in. 

 long, snb globose, glabrous. Seeds trunoate at both ends. 



In rice-fields and swampy ground. Flowers in rainy and cold seasons. 

 Distbib.: From Punjab Plain and Bengal to C. India and the Deccan ; 

 also in Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Burma, extending to China, Japan, 



