9S. SCROPHULARIACE^. [10. Lindenbergia. 



1. M. gracilis, Br. 



An erect herb 6-20" high with compressed and angular stems 

 grooved each side, sessile narrow-oblong suberect or erect glabrous 

 leaves, lower 1-2" long, gradually shorter upwards, gland-dotted 

 beneath, base 3-nerved. Flowers white or pinkish -5" long, on 

 slender stalks elongating to 1" or more. Capsule oblong compressed 

 as long as the calyx. 



Purneah! Santal Parg., Banks of Ganges, -ST^r;-! Singbhum, Ranchi, and 

 Palamau, near streams in the hills, also banks of rice-fields in the plains in r.s. I 

 FL, Fr. April-Jan. 



Leaves sometimes slightly toothed, widest in middle, obtuse or acute. Calyx 

 •25", lobes about one-fourth tube, keeled, acute. Corolla scarcely exserted, side- 

 lobes of lower lip external in bud, then the two short upper lobes, the middle lobe 

 of lower lip innermost and inflected, side-lobes spurred, middle anterior lobe 

 broadest papillose, calli of throat brown-spotted. Two lower stamens longest, all 

 with 2 large reflexed anther-cells confluent at tip. 



2. M. orbicularis, Benth. 



Collected hj Hooper on the shores of the Chilka Lake, but just outside our 

 boundaiT. 



Creeping with petioled orbicular fleshy nerveless entire leaves. Corolla -h-'^" . 

 Capsule -3 ' exserted. 



Several species are cultivated. M. mo^cliaius, L., ha* a delicate smell and is 

 usually called " musk." It is native of America. 



9. DOPATRIUM, Hamil. 

 Very slender glabrous marsh herbs with few opposite leaves, upper 

 remote and minute. Flowers small pink or purple axillary or in 

 terminal pseudo-racemes, ebracteolate. Calyx 5-fid. Corolla-tube 

 slender below, Avide towards the throat. Upper lip outer 2-fid, lower 

 3-lobed. Stamens 2 upper perfect included, anther-cells parallel 

 distinct, equal ; staminodes 2 minute. Style short, stigma 2-lamel- 

 late or sub-peltate. Capsule loculicidal, valves placentiferous. Seeds 

 very minute, tubercled. 



1. D. junceum, Ham. 



A slender herb with erect succulent stems which bear small 

 opposite distant pairs of leaves or are quite leafless and end in a 

 slender raceme of distant opposite pairs of small rose-colovired 

 floAvers •2--25" long on slender pedicels "5". Bracts small oblong 

 rounded at tip, "05". 



Marshy places, not very commonly collected. Singbhum ! Manbhum, Camp. I 

 Ranchi ! Also verj- common in rice-fields, etc., in the Jalpaiguri district bordering 

 on Purneah, where it is no doubt common and probably is found in all districts. 

 Fl., Fr. Aug.-Oct. 



Stems striate 6-12". Leaves oblong obtuse "5-2" at base of stem, parallel-nerved, 

 upper reduced to bracts. Calyx 06" very thin, tubular, teeth about half as long as 

 tube, lanceolate, black-tipped' Corolla glandular-puberulous, upper lip about "l" 

 broad. Capsule brown glabrous -08" diam., polished, slightly grooved over the top. 



The structure of the stem is peculiar ; the strife correspond to radiating septa 

 within, which divide it up into about 10 separate cavities. 



10. LINDENBERGIA, Lehm. 

 Herbs, sometimes woody at base. Leaves opposite or the upper 

 alternate, toothed. Flowers axillary, spicate or racemed, yelloAv^ 



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