1. Androsace.] 82. PRIMULACE.E. 



l'5-2'5" slender with 3~i fls. "25" diam. on slender hairy pedicels 

 •5-1 '25" long. Calyx enlarged in fruit, with spreading lobes. Corolla 

 white with annulate yelloAv mouth. 



Damp ground aud near streams. Singbhum ! Purneali ! Fl. Jan .-March. 



2. LYSIMACHIA, L. 



Herbs with entire opj)Osite alternate or whorled usually minutely 

 gland-dotted leaves and solitary spicate or racemose usually Avhite or 

 yellow flowers. Corolla rotate or funnel-shaped, 5-6-partite. Stamens 

 inserted on the base of the lobes. Ovary subglobose, style filiform 

 persistent. Capsule 5-valved or bursting irregularly, many-seeded. 

 Seeds 3-gonous or plano-convex. 



Fls. white, in elongate racemes 1. ohocafa. 



Fls. yellow, mostly axillary on very slender peduncles . . . 2. peduucularh. 



1. L. obovata, /. D. H. Syn. L. Candida, LindL, var. obovata. 



An erect slender pretty herb with strict leafy stems 12-20" high 

 terminating in elongate racemes of small funnel-shaped white 

 flowers "S-'SS" diam. Capsule as long as the persistent calyx. 



In watery places, pafx of Chota Nagpur, elev. 3000 ft. FL, Fr. Maj'-July. 



Glabrous. Radical leaves elliptic or oblanceolate Avith an attenuate base passing 

 into the petiole, l'5-2" with the petiole, cauline alt., erect shorter and smaller 

 upwards, minutelj- gland-dotted. Racemes 2-8", Pedicels slender, 'S-'S" in fruit, 

 shorter or longer than the subulate bracts. Sepals linear acuminate, "2", with 

 some yellow glands. Corolla "3" long, lobed more than half-way down, lobes oblong 

 rounded '1'' broad. 



2. L. peduncularis, Wall. 



A small erect annual 4-8" high, not or sparingly branched, with 

 narrowly winged stems, lanceolate leaves 1-2" long narrowed into the 

 short petiole and axillary small yellow flowers on axillary capillary 

 peduncles. 



Damp places in Bamboo forests, Porahat. Singbhum ! Fl., Fr. Dec. -Jan. 

 Pubescent. Peduncles "o-l'S" long. Sep. •12-'17", oblong-lanc. acute. Filaments 

 connected at base by a membrane. Capsule •12" diam., valves rounded at apex. 

 Previously only collected in Birma by Wallich. 



3. ANAGALLIS, Townief. Pimpernel. 

 Slender herbs with opposite entire dotted leaves and solitary 

 axillary ebracteate flowers. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate 5-partite. 

 Stamens with villous filaments. Capsule globose circumsciss. Seeds 

 many peltate. 



1. A. arvensis, L. Scarlet Pimpernel and Blue Pimpernel. 



An erect or procumbent herb with 4-angled branches 5-10" long 

 and sessile ovate or oblong-ovate or lanceolate leaves •5-'8" x-arely up 

 to 1" (in our area). Fls. very pretty blue (in our area, usually scarlet 

 in Eurojje) "S-o" diam. on slender peduncles Avhich are decurved in 

 fruit. 



Usually neai- cultivation. Champaran ! Chota Nagpur, rare, Woodl Hazari- 

 bagh, Gamble ! Fl., Fr. Jan.-March. 



Branches usually i)rostrate and ascending. Peduucles 1-2". Sepals narrow 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Capsule '2b" diam. 



Commoii in England, often called "the poor man's weather glass" from the 

 flowers closing in dull weather. 



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