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I. parviflora, Renih. in DC Prod, r, 419 ; F.U.T. ir, ggg ;| Coolie FL 

 Bomb, ii. 996 j Pram Ben,;. PL 769. Gratiola parviflora, Roxb.; Fl. Ind. i, 

 140. 



A email erect glabrous herb. Stem aV out 6 in. high, simple or diffusely 

 branched. 4-sided. Lcare* sessile or the lowermost very phottly 

 stalked, J-l in. long, oblong or oolong-lanceolate, entire or slightly 

 serrate. 1-5 nerved inm the li.se. Flcwen axillary end in terminal 

 racemes, filiform. Caly hrl "■ lt,r '£> deeply divided : segments 

 linear-lnrceclate. acute. Corolla twice IP lct-pr as the cohx. blue cr 

 white. CanstWe ovoid-( blorg, acute, usually exceeding the calyx. 



Common within the area in wet ground, flowering during the rainy 

 season. Distrib.: Throughcut'the greater part of Int. in. hut not in 

 Ceylon, extending to Siam and Trop. Africa. Very similar in general 

 appearance to Vandellia <pyxidaria, but the shorter stamers reduced 

 to staminodes and the longer and acute capsules distinguish it from the 

 latter. 



15. EONNAYA, Link & Otto ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 284. 



Annual glabrous herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or serrate, ob- 

 scurely yenninerved. Flowers solitary, axillary, or often passing 

 into terminal racemes', bvacteoles none. Calyx 5-partite ; segments 

 narrow, partly imbricate. Corolla 2-lipped, tube cvlindric ; upper 

 lip outside, erect, concave, 2-fid.; lower larger, spreading, 3-lobed. 

 Stamens, the 2 upper only perfect, sub-included, filaments filiform, 

 anthers connivent, cells divaricate ; staminodes 2, entire, obtuse, 

 glandular. Ovary 2-celled, style slender, stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit 

 a narrow exserted septicidal capsule ; valves entire, separating from 

 the placentiferous septum. Seeds many, rugose. — Species 8, in Asia 

 and Trop. Afrca. 



Leaves deeply and closely serrate • . 1. B. brachiata. 



Leaves narrower with shallow distant 

 teeth, the lower leaves often sub-entire 2. B. veronicoefolia- 



1. B. brachiata, Link # Otto I* PL Sel. i, 25, t. 11 ; F.B.I, iv, 284 ; 

 Collett FL Biml. 354 ; Prain Beng. PL 770; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 297. 

 Gratiola serrata, Roxb. FL Ind. i, 139. 



A small rigid glabrous herb, 3-10 in. high. Stem 4-sided, the lowest 

 branches decumbent below. Leaves sessile, -£-L\ in. long, oblong, 

 obtuse or subacute, closely and deeply spinose-scrrate. glabrous. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled, forming terminal racerr.es : pedicels about 

 equalling the calyx, rigid ; hraots lanceolate, lowermost often dentate. 

 Calyx about, i in. long, deeply divided; segments narrow, aristate. 



