15. Vandellia.] 98. 8CR0PHULARIACE.E. 



10. Y. verbenaefolia, corrib. nov. Syn. Bonnaya verbensefolia, Spreng. ; 



B. veronicaefolia, F.B.I, (in part). Incl. V. angustifolia, Benth. 

 An erect glabrous herb 5-10" high Avith suberect slender branches. 

 Leaves linear, linear-oblong or oblanceolate sparsely toothed or entire, 

 sessile or sulosessile -S-l'T" long. Flowers about So" in terminal 

 racemes. Pedicels divaricate in frviit ■25-"3". Calyx •l-*2". Capsule 

 linear, striate (with fine nerves), •4--5". 



Near Purneah, Kiirzl Manbhum, Kurzl Singbhum, common in wet places! 

 Fl., Fr. r.s.-Nov. The form with two pairs of fertile anthers occurs in Rauchi and 

 probably with precisely the same distribution so far as can be judged from 

 herbaria. 



L. acute or obtuse, sec. n. obscure or very fine. Colour of the flowers has not 

 been noted. Pedicels rarely attain "8" (in V. august if olia). 



Under this species T include Vandellia an gust (folia, Benth., and Bonnaya verbence- 

 folia, Spreng. The former appears to differ only by having both pairs of anthers 

 perfect. My specimens of B. verhencefolia, instead of showing the anterior pair 

 of stamens reduced to mere clavate filaments as in V. veroniccefolia, show distinct 

 but infertile anthers smaller than the normal ones ; the filaments are correct. 



11. Y. oppositifolia, comh. nov. Syn. Bonnaya oppositifolia, Spreng.; 



Gratiola oppositifolia, Hoxh. 

 An erect closely branched rather stout little herb, sometimes only 

 2" high with angled branches. Leaves oblong, slightly serrate, 

 sessile •4-"6" (attaining 1"2", Cooke). Flowers "25", blue (Roxh.), 

 axillary and upper racemed with very short pedicels mostly shorter 

 than the calyx which is •'2-"2o" long with 1 -ribbed narrow sepals. 

 Capsule '3" long. 



Manbhum, Clarke ! Fl., Fr. c.s. 

 I do not know this plant growing. 



12. Y. tenuifolia, comb. nov. Syn. Bonnaya tenuifolia, Spreng. 



A tufted erect intricately branched herb with filiform branches and 

 sessile linear nearly entire leaves 1-15" long, under '2" broad. 

 Flowers very small, pale blue (Griffith), axillary and upper racemed, 

 about '12" long. Calyx •04-*07". Capsule ■25-'5" long slender. 



Topchanchi (Manbhum), Anders. ! 



This also I do not know in a living state. 



16. LINDERNIA, All. (1755). 



(Including Ilysanthes, Rajin, 1820.) 



Annual glabrous marsh herbs with leaves parallel-nerved not or 



usiially faintly pvinctulate. Flowers small as in Vandellia, but 



imperfect stamens, if jDresent, 2-lobed, one lobe glandvilar obtuse, the 



other glabrous variously shaped. Capsule and seeds as in Vandellia. 



See remarks under Vandellia re inclusion of Ili/santhes in Lindernia. 



Boih pairs of stamens usually perfect 1, pyxidaria. 



Anterior pair of stamens imperfect -. — 

 Corolla twice or two and a-half times as long as the -OS-'l" long 



(in flower) calyx 2. parcifloi-a. 



Corolla ::i-l-times as long as the •l-"12"-long calyx . . . .3. hyssopioideg. 



1. L. pyxidaria, ^??. Syn. Vandellia erecta, Ben^/i. ; Vandellia pyxi- 

 daria, Maxim. 

 A small erect glabrous herb 4-8" much bi*anched from the base 

 with sessile 3-5-nerved elliptic, oblong or ovate leaves often somewhat 



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