146 SCROPHULARIACE^E. [Limnophila. 



Java and Trop. Africa. This species closely resemble short-flowered 

 forms of L. gratioloides, also states of L. heterophylla in which the 

 multifid submerged leaves are not present. 



2. L. racemosa, Berth. Scroph. Ind. 442 ; F. B. I. iv, 271 ; Train Beng. 

 PI. 764; Cooke. Fl. Bomb, ii, 291. Cyrilla aquatica Boxb.; ii, 115. 



An aquatic herb with creeping roots ; stems stout, erect, attaining 12 ft. 

 or more in deep water, glabrous or slightly hairy. Upper leaves sessile, 

 l|-2 in. long, opposite or 3-nately whorled, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 serrulate, glabrous, ^-amplexicaul and somewhat rounded at the base, 

 3-5-nerved ; lower leaves capillaceo-multifid, often deflexed and root- 

 like. Flowers rather large, usually in erect terminal leafy racemes, 

 2-4 in. long, bracteoles linear-subulate ; pedicels filiform, longer than 

 the bracteoles. Calyx £ in. loDg, lobes as long as the tube, deltoid, 

 acute or acuminate, often coloured, membranous and not striate in fruit. 

 Corolla | in. long or more, pale-violet with yellow tube ; lobes of upper 

 lip rounded, of the lower acute. Capsules % in. long, sub-globose, enclosed 

 in the membranous calyx. Seeds truncate at both ends. 



Merwara (Duthie), C. India (Edgeworth) on black soil. Distrib: Eajputana, 

 N. & C. Bengal, Deocan, Ceylon extending to Java. Small states of this 

 species are with difficulty distinguished from L. gratioloides. 



3. L. gratioloides, B. Br. Prod. 442; Boyle III. 291; F.B.I, iv. 271 ; 

 Prain Beng. PI. 264 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 291. Columnea balsamica, Boxb. Fl. 

 Ind. Hi, 97. 



A small herb, 3-8 in. high, with a strong scent of turpentine, roots creep- 

 ing ; stems much branched from the base, erect, stout or slender, sub-4- 

 angular, rooting from the lower nodes, glabrous, striate. Leaves sessile, 

 usually all whorled, pinnatifid or the lowest multifid, the upper occa- 

 sionally opposite and entire. $-§ in. long, linear-oblong, serrate-dentate, 

 1-nerved. llo:vers pedicelled, usually axillary and solitary, rarely 

 racemose, bracteoles linear j subulate ; pedicels longer than the leaves, 

 filiform, spreading. Calyx (in flower) %-^ in long, membranous, glandular, 

 hemispheric aud not striate in fruit ; lobes narrowly triangular, acute 

 or acuminate. Corolla % in. long, pink. Capsules £ in. long, sub-globose. 

 Seeds truncate or obscurely rounded at each end. 



Saharanpur dist. (Royle), Moradabad (T. Thomson), Merwara (Duthie) 

 Rohilkhand and Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), in swamps and rice-fields 

 Flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. Distrib. : Punjab Plain 

 Eajputana and throughout the greater part of India, also in Ceylon, 

 extending to Baluchistan, Trop. Africa, the Malay Archipelago, China, 

 Japan and Australia. 



Var. intermedia F.B.I. Ic.— St em robust. Lee res all close-set. Flowers 



sometimes racemose with opposite entire bract-like leaves. Moradabad 



(T. Thomson). Patli Dun (Strach. & W. No. 2). Sub-Siwalik tract 



Edgeworth). Distrib.; Punjab Himalaya 3-4,000 ft., extending to 



Baluchistan. 



