2l6 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



4. STEMODIA. 



S. viscosa. An erect plant, hairy, sticky, and strong-smell- 

 ing, stem square, leaves stem-clasping, oblong or fiddle-shaped, 

 flowers axillary solitary or terminal, dark blue, the throat 

 nearly closed, calyx with 2 linear bracts as long as the ovate 



Deccan, Konkan, and Guzerat, often found on dry rice-fields. It 

 is sometimes less hairy, and with pale flowers. 



* 8. serrata, viscid, usually densely branched from the base, leaves 

 sessile, obovate, serrated above, flowers smaller than the last, capsule 

 linear oblong. Not in D. or O. Konkan (H.). 



5. LlMNOPHILA. 



1. L. conferta. A rather succulent procumbent plant, 

 leaves sessile, ovate, serrate or crenate, flowers pretty, purple 

 or pink, axillary generally solitary with 2 bracts, calyx seg- 

 ments lanceolate, capsule broad elliptic. 



Marshes at Malwan (D.), where I also found it. Throughout the 

 Deccan. Very variable, the larger variety having slightly petioled 

 leaves and spiked flowers (H.). 



2. L. gratioloides. Erect or diffuse, with a smell of turpen- 

 tine, leaves verticelled, lower submerged and divided into 

 many hair-like segments, those just above water pinnatifid, 

 upper lanceolate, flowers solitary, axillary stalked, pale purple ; 

 capsule round. Turti. 



Deccan and Konkan. Throughout India in swamps, rice-fields, 

 Ac. It is very variable, and H. says the normal form is with 

 pinnatifid leaves only. The flowers are rather like those of a 

 Linaria. 



* L. racemosa, smooth, erect, stout-stemmed, flowers bluish or 

 purplish in dense racemes, calyx segments with slender points. 

 Konkans and Belgaum (G.). Matheran, Hirdwood. The small 

 states of this are with difficulty distinguished from the laat (//.) 

 * L. gratissima, leaves in 3's, linear lanceolate, calyx and peduncles 

 glandular and hairy, capsule oblong acute. D. and Q. without hab. 

 or colour of flowers. * L. Roxburghii (L. mentliastrum, D.), erect 

 with many stems, leaves oblong serrated, flowers axillary, solitary or 

 in heads, purple, calyx lobes lanceolate, capsule elliptical. No hab. 

 (D. and (?.). Konkan (H.). 



Note. H. has apparently not identified D.'s L. Roxlurghii, and he 

 says that the genus is a very variable one, the foliage and habit of 

 the species depending on the depth, &c., of the water in which they 

 grow. 



