Lindenbergia.'] cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 263 



from Jamu to the Nilgherries and Tenasserim ; not seen from Ceylon or Malacca. 

 DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Burma. 



Annual, 4-10 in. high, brittle. Stem sometimes simple with all the flowers 

 solitary in the axils of large leaves, at others branched, the branches running out 

 into leafy racemes. Leaves 1 1$ (rarely 2|) in. long, membranous; petiole |-^ in. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx ^ in., lobes recurved. Corolla twice as long, 

 sparsely hairy, yellow. Capsule hairy above the middle. 



15. ADENOSXKA, Br. 



Annual, villous or glandular, aromatic herbs. Leaves opposite, rugose, 

 crenulate. Flowers axillary or in leafy spikes racemes or heads, bracteolate 

 or not. Sepals 5, sometimes very large in fruit. Corolla-tube cylindric ; 

 upper lip erect, entire or notched ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, base not plaited. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anther-cells separate, stipitate, one cell 

 of all the anthers, or of the two anterior anthers only empty. Style dilated 

 at the tip, winged below the entire or 2-lamellate stigma. Capsule ovoid 

 ellipsoid or lanceolate, 2-grooved, loculicidal and septicidal, 4-valved. Seeds 

 many, minute, reticulate. Species 8 or 9, Asiatic, Malayan and Australian. 



* Flowers axillary ; outer fruiting sepals very large, cordate or ovate. 



1. A. ovatuniy Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 949 ; puberulous or glabrate, 

 leaves ovate obtuse crenate- serrate, flowers axillary sessile, 3 outer sepals in 

 fruit very large cordate, 2 inner very small lanceolate. Herpestis ovata, 

 Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30, and in Wall. Cat. 3896. H. javanica, Blume Bijd. 

 748. Pterostigma ovatum, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 380; Miguel FL Ind. 

 Bat. ii. 678. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; from Tenasserim, Griffith, to Malacca, Wallich. DISTRIB. 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Branched from the base, black when dry; branches 6-18 in., often rooting below, 

 ascending. Leaves 1-1 in., base cuneate or subcordate ; petiole 5- in. Fruiting 

 sepals - 1 in., membranous, reticulate, pubescent; small equalling the lanceolate 

 capsule. 



2. A. subrepens, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 949 ; sparingly hirsute, leaves 

 ovate crenate, 3 outer sepals in fruit large ovate-lanceolate, 2 inner subulate. 

 Pterostigm^ subrepens, Thwaites Enum. 426. 



CEYLON ; Pasdoon Corle and Nana Welle-Galle, Champion, Thivaites. 

 Very near to A. ovatum, but a coarser, larger, more hirsute plant, with narrower 

 fruiting sepals. 



** Flowers racemose, spicate or capitate ; upper fruiting sepal lanceolate, 

 not very large. 



3. A. coeruleum, Br. Prodr. 443 ; erect, viscidly hirsute, leaves ovate- 

 subulate simply or doubly crenate, spikes long, flowers blue, upper fruiting 

 sepal lanceolate, the others linear. Benth. FL Austral, iv. 484. A. villosum, 

 Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3851. Pterostigma villosum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 21, 

 and in DC. Prodr. x. 380 (in part] ; Miquel Fl. Ind, Bat. ii. 678. P. strictum, 

 Griff. NotuL iv. 96, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 41 7, f. 3. Stemodia ccerulea,i?eM. 

 in DC. L c. 381. Herpestis lanuginosa, Blume Bijd. 747. 



KHASIAMTS., alt. 0-4500 ft., Wallich, Clarice. CACHAR, Keenan. TENASSERIM, 

 SINGAPORE, and MALACCA, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo, Australia. 



Stem 1-2 ft., strict. Leaves l-2 1 in., base rounded or cordate ; petiole -1 in. 

 Corolla blue. Fruiting calyx in. long ; sepals variable in width. 



