15. Vandellia.] 98. SCROPHULARIACEM. 



3. Y, scabra, Benth. 



A little plant of similar habit to V. Crustacea, but easily recognised 

 by its being- hispidly-hairy all over or the leaves glabrous above. 

 The flowers have a purplish or brown- veined upper lip, a light blue or 

 white vmder-lip and yellow throat and are more spreading than in 

 V. Crustacea, being -Zo-S" broad and long. Calyx divided nearly ta 

 the base and fruiting pedicels spreading and deflexed, not at all 

 racemose or verticillate. 



Wet ground, rice-fields, etc. PurneRh. £:etv Herb. \ Ranchi, PmJw ! Sino-bhum ' 

 ChUkALnke, Al cock \ Throus-hout India. JF'.B./. Fl., Fr. Aug.-Jan. Also^Mav. 



Branches much spreading, often proi^trate. L. small ovate or ovate-cordate 

 about '4'', rai-ely "S" long, obscurely crenate, obtuse. Pedicels capillary. Calyx 

 •08--1" m flower, sometimes -12" in fruit, lobes lanceolate rather remote in fruit 

 disclosing the spherical capsule, which is about '1" and glabrous. 



4. Y. hirsuta, Benth. 



Erect succulent, sparsely clothed with spreading hairs, lower leaves 

 petioled ovate or oblong obtuse entire or sinuate, upper sessile broader, 

 flowers racemed, pedicels exceeding the calyx. Corolla pale yellow 

 white, or bluish-white (Griffith). Sepals lanceolate, longer than th& 

 orbicular capsule. 



This, which has been collected in the Sikkim Tarai as well as Bengal and the 

 Deccan, no doubt occurs in the eastern parts at least of our area, almost certainly 

 in Purneah. 



5. Y. multiflora, G. Don. 



Similar in habit to T^ hirsuta, but glabrous. Stems 3-chotomously 

 branched 4-6". Leaves sessile or narrowed into a short petiole,, 

 oblong or ovate-oblong or obovate. Flowers in numerous racemei 

 with minute bracts and pedicels mostly under -3". Calyx •08--1''. 

 Capsule orbicular slightly exceeding it, 



Monghyr, Mam. I Also Maldah, on the borders of our province' Santal Paz-- 

 ganas, Ktirz ! Fl., Fr. May (and no doubt at other times). 



6. Y. sessiliflora, Benth. 



A small erect strict or 2-3-chotomously branched herb 2-6" high 

 with puberulous angles to the stems and branches and sub-orbicular 

 or broadly ellipsoid rounded crenate-serrate or dentate leaves S-G". 

 Flowers purplish not racemed, sessile and pedicelled, several together 

 at the top of the stems, about -25" long. Calyx 08-- 1", sometimes 

 lobed only half-way doAvn. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, apiculate, 

 •23-25". Seeds granulate. 



On damp rocks under shade. Ichadar (Ranclu), 35()0 ft. ! Parasnath (Hazari^ 

 bagh) ! Fl., Fr. July-Nov. 



Leaves sometimes puberulous on midrib beneath and on the margins, sec. n 1-2 

 faint. Pedicels 0--75" long (on same plant), deflexed in fruit or the shorter ones 

 erect. 



7. Y. brachiata, comb. nov. Syn, Bonnaya brachiata. Link ^' Otto ; 



Gratiola serrata, Roxh. 



A rather rigid erect but diffusely branched herb, 3-10" high, 



glabrous. Leaves sessile broadly oblong obtuse or subacute sharply 



closely spinulose-serrate •5-1-5" long, sec. n, 4, very faint or not visible. 



Flowers -25" long, pink or Avhite, in lax terminal racemes with rio-id 



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