266 cm. SCROPHULARINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Limnopliila. 



386 ; Dalz. # Gils. Bomb. Fl. 175. Herpestis rugosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 290. 

 Capraria gratissima, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 92, (excl. citat. of Rheede). Antir- 

 rhinum, gratissimum, Roxb. Ic. ined. Stemodia menthastrum, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 23 ; Wall. Cat. 3927. Adenosma triflora, Seem. Fl. Viti 284, not of 

 Nees. 



Watery places in the plains of N. INDIA, and outer HIMALAYA, ascending to 

 6000 ft., from Chamba toMishmi; ASSAM, BENGAL, SILHET, CENTRAL INDIA, and 

 the CONCAN and CIECABS. DISTEIB. Java, China, the Philippines, Pacific Islands. 



Annual, aromatic ; root creeping ; stems many, 1-2 ft., stout ; " nodes under water 

 emitting many fibrous roots or multifid filiform leaves," Roxburgh. Leaves 2-3 in., oftt n 

 rugose, narrowed into a petiole of |-1 in. ; nerves many, stout. Flowers usually in 

 axillary sessile or shdrtly peduncled heads. Corolla ^ in. long, pubescent, blue-purple, 

 mouth yellow. Capsule ellipsoid. Roxburgh's drawing identifies this plant with his 

 Capraria gratissima. He quotes Rheede's Pola-tsjira (ix. t. 78) for the same, but I 

 have seen no specimens from Malabar, and Rheede makes no mention of the aromatic 

 smell and taste, which he could not fail to have noticed if this plant had been under 

 his observation. 



2. Xi. balsamea, Benth. in DC.Prodr. x. 386; softly pubescent, leaves 

 all opposite sessile elliptic subacute narrowed at the base obscurely crenulate 

 punctate beneath, nerves slender, flowers axillary in shortly peduncled heads 

 or spikes, calyx hirsute, lobes lanceolate finely acuminate striate in fruit. 

 Stemodia balsamea, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 23 ; Wall. Cat. 3928. 



PEGU, M'Lelland. TENASSEEIM, Wallich; Mergui, Griffith. 

 Stem 1-2 ft., stout. Leaves 1-2 in., entire below the middle, nerves 3-5-pair. 

 Corolla A in., twice as long as the calyx. Capsule broadly elliptic, obtuse. L. mill- 

 fera, Miquel, of Sumatra, is probably this. 



3. Xi. conferta, Benth. in DC. Trodr. x. 387; erect or procumbent, 

 glabrous except the inflorescence, leaves all opposite sessile or subpetioled 

 oblong or elliptic-oblong obtuse crenate-serrate punctate beneath, ^base 

 narrowed or subamplexicaul, nerves slender, flowers axillary solitary or in 

 short axillary heads spikes or cymes, calyx glabrate, segments lanceolate 

 finely acuminate striate in fruit. Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 177. L. repens, 

 Benth. 1. c. 387. L. serrata, Benth. I. c. (the Burma plant only) ; Thwaites 

 Fnum. 218. ? L. punctata, Vahl Fnum. i. 90, and Bonnaya punctata, G. 

 Don Gen. Syst. iv. 538. Stemodia sessilis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 23 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 3939. S. tenuiflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind, 23 ; Wall. Cat. 3940. S. 

 repens, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3935. Gratiola lucida, Heyne. ? Rheede Sort. 

 Mai. ix. t. 78. | 



Marshes, from ASSAM, BENGAL and CHITTAGONO- to TENASSEEIM and BUEMA ; 

 throughout the DECCAN and CEYLON. 



A very variable plant ; in its larger state diffuse, 12-18 in. long, with subpetioled 

 leaves 1-1^ in. long, and often spicate flowers j in its smaller (St. sessilis, Wall.) short, 

 stoat, with quite sessile oblong leaves J in. long, and crowded axillary flowers ; in its 

 smallest state (St. tenuiflora,Wa.\l., and serrata, Bth.) erect or procumbent, with oblong 

 sessile leaves \-% in. long and solitary axillary flowers. Between these there are all 

 intermediates. Thwaites has reduced all to Gaudichaud's L. serrata, a Polynesian 

 plant with solitary flower and sepals not striated. Leaves very minutely punctate, 

 entire below the middle, nerves few, faint. Corolla about | in. long. Capsule as in 

 L. balsamea, but much smaller. Heyne's Gratiola lucida, referred here by Bentham, 

 is a small creeping form approaching L. micrantha. 



4. Xi. diffusa, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 387, not of G. Don; erector 

 decumbent, pubescent, leaves all opposite petioled elliptic-ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate subacute crenate-serrate punctate beneath, nerves slender, flowers 



