98. SCROPHULARIACE^. [15. Vandellia 



Capsule very narrow, over •25" long. Sepals free or 



connate at base : — 

 rt. Leaves closely sharply and deeply serrate, broadly 



elliptic oblong. Erect rather rigid herb . . '. 7. brachiata. 

 b. Leaves shallowly or obscurely serrate or entire : — 

 *Both pairs of stamens fertile : — 



L. ovate or oblong-ovate -S-'y". Fls. never racemose 8. eonUfoUa. 

 L. linear or narrowly lanceolate. Fls. often race- 

 mose , [aiiffusfij'olia).* 



**One pair of stamens only fertile : — 



L. broadly elliptic to ovate-oblong, lower shortly 



petioled. Calyx •2-'3" 9. i-eroniccefolia. 



L. linear or narrow-lanceolate, scarcely serrate. 



Calyx •1--2" 10. cerlencpfolia. 



L. oblong, serrate, thick. Calj^x •l-"2" . . .11. opponififolia. 

 Tufted slender erect. L. linear. Calyx •Oi-*07" . 12. fennifolia. 



1. Y. stemonoides, Miq. Syn. V. Hookeri, Clarice. 



A rather robust plant for the genus and i-esembling a Torenia, with 

 sharply 4-angled hairy steins, up to 11" long, much diffusely branched. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, hairy. T-l'S" long, 

 serrate, sessile or with lower petioles up to -4", base decurrent on the 

 petiole. Flowers blue-purple on spreading axillary and terminal 

 sub-verticillate hairy jDedicels. Calyx •2-3" in flower or up to "o" in 

 fruit, liispidly-hairy, strongly ribbed but not decurrent nor winged, 

 sepals often distinct to base in fruit, rarely calyx 5-cleft to middle in 

 flower. Capsule •lo-"25". Seeds subglobose, pale-yelloAv, granulate- 

 rugose. 



Wet gi'ound, rice-fields, etc. Mountains of Chota Xagpur, Singbhum ! Ranchi 

 and Palamau (Neterhat) ! Parasnath, Clarke ! Fl. Aug. -Oct. Fr. Nov.-Dec. 

 Easily distinguished by its hairiness. Pedicels S-'o", often deflexed. 



2. Y. Crustacea, Benth. 



A glabrous, or nearly glabrous, Ioav often diffiisely branched herb 

 2"-] 2" high with angled stems and branches, small ovate entire or 

 serrate leaves •25-"75" long and axillary and terminal small purple or 

 blue-violet flowers •26-'35" long Avith calyx "IS-'IT" long only, not 

 divided more than one-fourth way down, sometimes splitting down 

 one side, but not accrescent in fruit. Capsule equalling the calyx 

 with two elliptic valves. 



Very common in wet places, rice-fields, damji ravines, etc Singbhum ! Man- 

 bhum, CrtHij;. ! Ranchi, C/nrte ! Probably in all di.stricts. Fl., Fr. July-Dec. 



Leaves sometimes crenate usually obtuse and with broad base, but sometimes 

 suddenly contracted into the very short petiole which is ■25' or under, sec. n. .3-4. 

 Pedicels erect in type (see var.), slender, •3-l'5" long. Calyx distinctly 5-ribbed 

 and angled, often hirtellous, teeth triangular or lanceolate. Corolla narrow, lower 

 lip with a yellow blotch in the throat. Lower pair of stamens nearly exsert, with 

 a geniculate knobbed filament or nearly straight. Seeds pale 3'ellow granulate. 



Var. verticillata. Syn. V. molluginoides, Benth. ? 



Much 3-chotomously branched with the pedicels spreading and 

 deflexed sub-verticillate at the top of the branches. 



Purneah ! Ravines in Singbhum ! 



Except in its dwarf more rigid habit and less divided calyx this appears to be the 

 same as V. molluginoides, Benth. 



* For T'. angu^tifolia see V. verheiKpfolia = Bonnaya verb€mrJ'oli«. 



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