98. SCROPHTJLARIACE.E. [13. Limnophila. 



tip, winged below the entire or 2-lamellate stigma. Capsule 2- 

 grooved, loculicidal and septicidal, 4-valved. Seeds many, minvite, 

 reticulate. 



1. A. capitatum, Benth. 



An erect, glandular-villous herb 1-2 ft. high with numerous opposite 

 and decussate ascending branches gradually shorter upwards and 

 short-petioled ovate or ovate-oblong serrate leaves 1-2" long. Flowers 

 blue in dense cylindric or ovoid terminal bracteate heads, a few also 

 sometimes axillary in the uppermost leaves. Usually deep brown 

 when in fruit with capsules narrow-ovoid, thinly coriaceous and 

 glistening, divided septicidally into two halves and then loculicidally 

 dehiscent, closely invested by the calyx. 



Damp meadows, grass jungles, etc. Purneah, common ! Chota Nagpur, fre- 

 quent ! Fl.r.s. Fr. c.s. 



Somewhat with the habit of the English Frunellavulgaris. Leaves often reflesed, 

 base more or less cuneate, tip obtuse or subacute, petiole up to -'6" long. Heads 

 •5-75" or sometimes much longer, with an involucre of leaves or bracts, bracts 

 between the flowers linear and hardly exceeding them. Calyx -25", sepals lanceo- 

 late, upper largest. Seeds smooth. 



12. STEMODIA, L. 



Hairy or glandular aromatic herbs. Leaves sometimes whorled. 

 Anther-cells all polleniferous. Seeds most minute, ellipsoid. Other 

 ■characters as in Adenosma. 



1. S. viscosa, Pi.oxh. 



A herb 6-18" high resembling some of the larger semi-terrestrial 

 Limnophilas, with leafy erect bi'anched ridged stems, and viscidly 

 pubescent all over. Leaves sessile oblong serrate or serrulate 1-2" 

 long, or rarely all small and under -5", with amplexicaul cordate or 

 auricled base. Flowers violet 4" long, long-pedicelled in nearly all 

 the leaf (or bract) axils. Pedicels 'o-G" or upper -25" only in small 

 plants. Calyx •17-" 18" Avith narrow lanceolate sepals. Corolla-tube 

 •2b", limb "2" diam. Capsule as long as calyx acuminate. 



Behar, near the Sone River, Griffith ! 



13. LIMNOPHILA, Br. 



(Ambulia, Xajji., in the Nat. Pfianzenfamilien,) 



Herbs of very various habit, often aquatic, aromatic and with 

 glands (visible as dots) in the leaves which may be submersed and 

 multifid, or whorled, or opposite and toothed, ^'lowers axillary, 

 solitary or racemose or spicate, bracteolate or not. Sepals narrow, 

 subeqixal or the posterior larger. Corolla-tube cylindric, upper lip 

 outer in b\id, suberect, entire or 2-fid ; lower spreading, 3-fid, base 

 not plaited. Stamens -i didynamous, included, anther- cells usually 

 separate and stipitate. Style detlexed at the tip, stigma shortly 

 2-lamellate. Capsule ovoid or oblong, septi- and loculi-cidal, valves 

 bearing the placentiferous septa. Seeds angular reticulate (F.B.I., 

 I have not always found this). 



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