98. SCROPHJJLARIAGE.E. [17. Microcarp^a. 



tapering towards base, lower "S-'TS" long. Fls. •2--3" long- white on 

 very slender axillary suberect spreading or rarely deflexed pedicels 

 •.5--6" long or usually twice as long as their subtending leaves. Calyx 

 •08-1" in flower, •12--15" in fruit, sepals linear, rather remote in fruit. 

 Capsule broadly ellipsoid, as long as calyx or only very slightly 

 longer. ' 



Frequent in swamps. Behar, J.D.II. ! 



Sometimes purplish. Leaves obscurely punctate, entire or slightly crenate, 

 ohtnse. Sepals sub-obtuse. Both pairs of anthers fully developed. 



Weftstein states that L. pyxidaria extends from Eastern Asia to Southern 

 Europe, that the flowers in the temperate European and Asiatic zone are mostly 

 cleistogamous {= L. pyxidaria. All.), in the Indian region only chasmogamous 

 (= Vandellia et-ecta, Benth.), and in the intermediate regions flowers of both forms 

 occur. 



2. L. parviflora, comh. nov. Syn. Ilysanthes parviflora, Benth. ; 



Gratiola parviflora, Roxh. 

 This is said to differ from I. pyxidaria only in the reduction of the 

 shorter stamens and in the longer acute capsule {F.B.I.). Erect, 

 slender, with sometimes very numerous slender and spreading stems 

 4-6". L. ovate-lanceolate •2--4" or lower more elliptic, and T" 

 sessile, Avith 3-5 nerves from the base. Flowers white (or blue, 

 F.B.I.), •2"--22", on slender pedicels -S-'T" long. Calyx •08--12" in 

 ilower, -15" in fruit, sepals linear- subulate, 1-nerved, acute. Capsule 

 '15--2" long, acute, striate. 



Apparently more common in our province than the last. Purneah ! Singbhum, 

 frequent ! Manbhum, Clarke ! Palamau, Gamble ! Fl., Fr. r.s.-c.s. 



The anthers of the longer (not shorter) stamens inmy specimens are rudnnentary. 



3. L. hyssopioides, comh. nov. Syn. Ilysanthes hyssopioides, Benth. 

 Habit usually much laxer than in I. parviflora, erect, simple, or 



diffusely branched. Leaves in distant pairs sessile oblong, oblong- 

 lanceolate or sometimes narroAvly lanceolate, not punctate, usually 

 entire, 1-3-nerved. Flowers pale blue, or purple {Wood), -35- 5" long 

 and -3" broad on axillary filiform pedicels -o-Vo" long. Calyx 12". 

 Capsule -2" or rather less, rounded at end, minutely striate. 

 Sarguja, in water of small streams, elev. 1500-2000 ft.. Wood ! 



17. MICROCARPiEA, Br. 



A very smaU diffuse or creeping herb with opposite sessile entire 

 narrow leaves. Flowers minute, axillary solitary sessile ebracteolate. 

 Calyx tubular, 5-angled, 5-fid or -lobed. Corolla very short, tube 

 broad ; lobes 5, broad, spreading, 2 upper subconnate. Stamens 2, 

 anthers confluent, 1-celled, staminodes 0. Style filiform, stigma 

 capitate recurved. Capsule included, ovoid, 2-grooved, loculicidal ; 

 valves separating from the placentiferous septum. Seeds few, ovoid. 



1. M. muscosa, Br. Syn. Ammannia dentelloides, Kurz (fide Koehne). 

 A very slender often tufted herb with numerous intricately 

 branched angled creeping stems and branches 2-4" long; angles 

 sometimes ciliolate. Leaves linear-oblong or linear •1--25" glabrous 

 subobtuse. Flowers mostly in one axil only of each pair of leaves. 

 Calyx -1", lobed about one-fourth to one-third down, lobes very acute 



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