cm. SCROPHULARINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 269 



pedicels very slender ; bracteoles nearly as long as the calyx. Corolla about i in. long. 

 Capsule obovoid-oblong. 



** Leaves with 3-5 parallel nerves running from the base to the tip, or 

 pinnatifid or multifid. 



f Flowers sessile or very shortly pedicelled. 



13. Xi. Helferi, Hook. f. glabrous, 4-6 in., stem or branches very 

 slender ascending, leaves opposite and 3-4-nately whorled sessile linear 

 obscurely serrulate, flowers minute very numerous in peduncled axillary 

 cymes, pedicels shorter than the calyx and peduncles capillary, calyx -^ in. 

 long, lobes subulate erect, fruiting very narrow striate. 



TENASSEKIM, Heifer. 



A very elegant little plant, the smallest flowered of any allied to L. polyanfha, of 

 which it is a glabrous miniature. Leaves -| in. long. Pedicels rarely as long as the 

 narrow calyx. Corolla ^- in. long. Capsule obovoid-oblong. 



14 Zi. hypericifolia, Benth. in DC. Prodr. -&. 386; glabrous, stem 

 1-2 ft. stout erect simple, leaves all opposite and entire i-amplexicaul 

 elliptic or ovate-oblong obtuse crenulate, flowers large sessile in the axils 

 of opposite or alternate leafy bracts forming terminal and axillary sessile or 

 peduncled spikes, calyx-lobes ovate acuminate, fruiting membranous not 

 striate. Cybbanthera connata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 87. Herpestis connata, 

 Spreng. Syst. cur. post. 234. Stemodia hypericifolia, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 

 23 ; Wall. Cat. 3934. 



Marshy places in the WESTERN and CENTEAL HIMALAYA, from Kan^ra, Edge- 

 tvorth, to Nepal, Wallich. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. <f T. T. 

 NILG-HIBI MTS., Wight, &c. 



Stem rarely branched. Leaves all opposite in every specimen, J-2 by \- in., 

 rather thick, minutely punctate beneath. Flowers f in. long, rose-purple, pedicels 

 very rarely in. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, purple, fruiting membranous. 

 Capsule broadly elliptic. I find no trace of pinnatifid or multifid leaves on any of the 

 numerous specimens. 



15. Zi. cana, G-riff. Notul. iv. 98; stem 6-10 in. veiy stout hirsute, 

 leaves 3-6-nately whorled sessile upper elliptic or linear-oblong obtuse serru- 

 late 3-5-nerved, lower 'pinnatifid, flowers sessile crowded in terminal rarely 

 axillary erect leafy spikes with opposite or whorled bracts, calyx-tubes subu- 

 late. 



EAST BENGAL, in the Jheels, Griffith, J. D. H. $ T. T. ; Dacca and Pubna, 

 Clarke. 



Stem extensively creeping, sending up erect simple branches. Leaves |-1 by |- 

 in., thick, gradually passing upwards into the bracts which are almost imbricate. 

 Flowers quite sessile, violet. Calyx\ in. long, fruiting not seen. I have referred this 

 very distinct species to Griffith's L. cana at Mr. Clarke's suggestion; from the habitat 

 and other characters it may be the true plant, but I have seen no specimens from 

 . Griffith, who describes the leaves as 3-nately whorled and the flowers as furnished with 

 2 most minute tooth-like bracteoles, which latter I do not find. It should ba sought 

 for at Jumalpore, Griffith's locality. 



16. Zi. polystachya, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25, and in DC. Prodr. x. 



790 ; glabrous, floating, upper leaves opposite or 3-4-nately whorled ^sessile 

 linear or oblong crenulate, lower capillaceo-multifid, flowers sessile in ter- 

 minal and axillary long-peduncled slender spikes with short bracts. Wall. 

 Cat. 3909 ; Wight Ic. t. 860. Stemodia aquatica, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 346. 

 Conobea indica, Spreng. Syst. ii. 771. 



