148 SCROPRULARIACE&. [ Vandellia. 



2-lamellate. Fruit a linear or oblong septioidal capsule, included, valves 

 separating from the placentiferous dissepiment. Seeds many, rugose 

 or cancellate. — Species 25, in tropical Asia and Africa, and one in 

 America. 



T. cordifolia, Boxb. Cor. PL ii, 32, t 161 ; Fl. Ind. Hi. 95 ; Boyle III. 

 291 ; F.B.I, iv, 276; Oollett Fl. 8iml. 353 ; Train Beng. PL 767 ; Cooke 

 FL Bomb, ii, 292. 



An erect nearly glabrous annual, 4-10 in. high. Stems and branches 4- 

 augled or almost 4-winged. Leaves %-l\ in. long, ovate, acute or sub- 

 obtuse, sharply serrate, glabrous, base usually cuneate, petioles \-\ in. 

 long. Floxoers solitary or fascicled in the axils towards the" ends of the 

 branches ; pedicels slender, often exceeding the leaves. Calyx f in. 

 long, 2-lipped, ovoid, cordate or rounded at the base, wings not decurrent 

 on the pedicel, teeth cdiate. Corolla f in. long, bluish-purple. Fila- 

 ments arching, not toothed. Capsules oblong, acute, enclosed in the 

 persistent calyx. Seeds minute, truncate at both ends. 



Dehra Dun. Flowers Sep. Distbib.: W. Himalaya from Simla to 

 Kumacn up to 6,000 ft., Behar and billy part3 of Peninsular India, 

 Burma, Java and China. 



13. VANDELLIA, Linn.: Fl.'Brit. Ind. iv, 279. 



Herbs, usually annual, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 often toothed, penninerved (except, in F. pyxidaria). Flowers small, 

 axillary or eub-racemose, bracteole* none. Calyx subcampaoulate ; 

 lobes free or connate, not winged. Corolla 2-lipped, tube cylindric ; 

 upper lip outside, erect, concave, notched or bifid, lower broader, 3-lobed, 

 spreading. Stamens didynamous, usually, all perfect, 2 posterior usually 

 included ; 2 anterior with arched filaments, appendaged near the base ; 

 anthers touching or cohering in pairs under the upper lip, cells divari- 

 cate. Ovary 2-celled, style slender, stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit a 

 globose or ovoid or long-ovlindric septicidally 2-valved capsule, valves 

 separating from the plaoentiferous septum. Seeds many, rug09e.— 

 Species about 26, chiefly in Trop. Asia- 



Leaves pinnately veined :— 

 Capsule equalling the calyx or shorter t — 

 CaWxin flower not divided beyond the 



middle . . . 1. T. Crustacea. 

 Calyx divided to the base or nearly so . 2. V. multiflora. 

 Capsule much longer than the calyx : — 

 Calyx in flower cleft to the middle . 3. V. nummulanfolia. 

 Calyx-lobes free to the base or nearly 

 80 4. V. pedunculata. 



