LimnopMla.~] cm. SCROPHULARINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 267 



in short axillary cymes or long spikes or racemes, calyx hirsute, lobes 

 lanceolate finely acuminate striate in fruit. L. camphora.ta, Benth. in Wall. 

 Cat. 3932, and Scroph. Ind. 24, not of Vahl. Stemodia cimicina, Benth. 

 in Wall. Cat. 3933. 



EASTERN BENGAL to CHITTAGONG, BTJEMA and TENASSERIM. TEAVANCOEE, 

 Wight. CANARA, HohenacJcer. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Closely allied to S. conferta, but with pubescent more strongly nerved crenato- 

 serrate leaves, and often racemose flowers. Roxburgh's Capraria dijjfusa (Limnophila 

 diffusa, G. Don) is Ebermeyera thyrsoidea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1870. 



5. It. micrantha, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 387 ; small, creeping below, 

 glabrous, leaves opposite small sessile entire or subserrate, nerves very 

 obscure, flowers axillary subsessile, calyx l in. long glabrous, lobes subulate 

 fruiting striate. Stemodia micrantha, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 23 ; Wall. Cat. 

 3936. Herpestis pygmaea, Griff. Notul. iv. 104. 



Marshy places in BENGAL, ASSAM, SILHET, CHITTAGONG and TENASSERIM. 

 DISTEIB. Cochin-China. 



Stem 3-6 in., stout, branching from the root. Leaves crowded, \^ in., punctate, 

 thick, teeth few. Floivers |- in. long, red-purple. A very distinct little species. 



ft Flowers pedicelled. Leaves all opposite. See also 10, L. gratissima ; 

 and 11, L. hirsuta. 



6. Zi. laxa, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 388; stem 8-12 in. slender flaccid 

 sparsely hairy, leaves all opposite subsessile or petioled oblong-lanceolate 

 obtuse subcrenate, nerves very slender, flowers solitary axillary, pedicels 

 longer than the calyx, calyx hirsute, lobes subulate fruiting striate. Her- 

 pestis sp. 2; Griff. Notul. iv. 103. 



TENASSEEIM; at Mergui, Griffith; Tavoy, Parish. CEYLON, Walker. 

 & Stem ascending, rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves |-1 in., flaccid, narrowed 

 into a short petiole. Resembles a reduced form of L. hirsuta. 



7. Zi. erect a, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 388; glabrou^ stem 4-6 in. 

 subsimple stout erect, leaves all opposite subsessile linear-oblong subserrate, 

 nerves obscure, flowers solitary axillary, pedicels shorter than the calyx, 

 fruiting recurved, calyx in. glabrous, lobes lanceolate acuminate fruiting 

 striate. Maxim. Diagn. PI. Nov. Dec. xix. 406. Stemodia gratioloides, Benth. 

 Scroph. Ind. 25 ; Wall. Cat. 3938. 



BENGAL; Serampore, Griffith. TENASSEEIM; at Tavoy, Wallich. DISTEIB. 

 China. 



A small stout species, with leaves rarely 1 in. long. 



8. Zi. pulcherrima, Hoolc.f. ; stem 4-6 in. pubescent, stout, erect or 

 ascending, leaves all opposite sessile elliptic-oblong subcrenate, nerves 

 obscure, flowers axillary solitary, pedicels, shorter than the calyx fruiting 

 erect, calyx % in. hirsute, lobes subulate acuminate fruiting striate. L. laxa, 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 388, in part. L. villosa var. sumatrana, Miguel 1. 

 Ind. Bat. ii. 68. Herpestis pulcherrima, Grijf. Notul. iv. 104. 



BENGAL; at Comilla, Clarice. MALACCA, Griffith, Cuming. SINGAPOEE, G. 

 Thomson. DISTEIB. Sumatra. 



Very closely allied to L. laxa and L. erecta, differing from the former m the stout 

 erect habit, and more sessile shorter leaves ; and from the latter m the pubescence and 

 the erect fruiting pedicels. 



