270 cm. SCROPHULARINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Limnqpkila. 



Flooded grounds in the S. DECCAN, Bottler, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft. long, slender, erect or ascending from the long floating portion which 

 is densely clothed with the dissected leaves. Leaves, upper -! in., from narrow linear 

 to oblong, 3-5-nerved ; in small specimens 4-8 in. high all the leaves are pinnatisect. 

 Spikes sometimes divaricatingly branched, 2-6 in. long ; bracts ovate, usually shorter 

 than the flowers. Calyx % in., quite glabrous, fruiting hemispheric ; lobes ovate, 

 acuminate, not striate. Corolla much longer than the calyx, white. Capsule globose, 

 as long as the calyx. 



17. Ei. sessiliflora, Blume Bijd. 750 ; stem 4-8 in. slender hirsute 

 above rarely glabrate, leaves 3-6 in a whorl all lobulate or pinnatisect or 

 the uppermost very rarely opposite and entire, flowers axillary solitary 

 sessile or very shortly pedicelled, fruiting calyx hemispheric membranous 

 not striate, lobes ovate long-acuminate. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 25, and in DC. 

 Prodr. x. 389 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 683 ; Wall. Cat. 3902. Hottonia 

 sessiliflora, Vahl Symb. ii. 36. 



Throughout INDIA, in rice-fields and swamps, from the Punjab to Bengal, Central 

 India, Chittagong. CEYLON, common. DISTKIB. Java, Japan. 



Leaves rarely more than \ in. long, irregularly pinnatifidly gashed or pinnatisect, 

 but not capillaceo-multifid, or rarely so. Sepals with long points. Corolla \ in. long. 

 Capsule orbicular, turgid, in. diam. This strongly resembles a sessile -flowered form 

 of L. gratioloides, or a short pubescent form of L. heterophylla wanting the 

 multifid submerged leaves. Bentham's L. gratioloides var. myriophylloides seems 

 more akin to this ; it is a Ceylon plant with tufted creeping stems and roots, erect 

 rigid branches 4-8 in. high, densely clothed with whorls of short capillaceo-multifid 

 rigid leaves, giving a cylindric form to the branches, which are ^-1 iu. diam. The 

 flowers are sessile or pedicelled in the upper axils. The uppermost leaves are some- 

 times entire. 



18. Ei. heterophylla, Benth. ScropJi. Ind. 25, and in DC. Prodr. x. 



390; glabrous, stem elongate slender, uppermost leaves usually opposite 

 small sessile ^-amplexicaul oblong crenulate, those next below 4-6 in a whorl 

 pinnatifid, the submerged long capillaceo-multifid, flowers axillary solitary 

 sessile or subsessile, or the uppermost in a short leafy spike, fruiting calyx 

 hemispheric membranous not striate, lobes ovate shortly acuminate. Wall. 

 Cat. 3905 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 97, and Ic. PL Asiat. 416, f. 2. L. Eoxburghii, 

 var. tenuior, Plant. Hohenack. 679, not of Don. Columnea heterophylla, 

 Boxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 97. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON, in rice-fields and swamps. DISTEIB. Borneo, 

 Japan, China. 



The much larger size, glabrous stem, abundant multifid leaves, frequent presence of 

 upper opposite and alternate small entire floral leaves, and the shortly acuminate 

 calyx-lobes distinguish this from L. sessiliflora, but there are a good many specimens 

 which in a dried state may be referred to either. 



VAE. reflexa; very slender, submerged leaves short J in. very finely divided, 

 lower pedicels longer than the calyx recurved in fruit. L. reflexa, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 25, and in DC. L c. 389; Wall. Cat. 3904. Tavoy, Wallich', Malacca, 

 Cuming. 



19. L. tillaeoides, HooTc.f. ; very small, 2-4 in. high, quite glabrous, 

 leaves all whorled - in. long upper pinnatifid lower multifid, flowers 

 numerous axillary solitary, pedicels shorter than the calyx recurved in fruit, 

 calyx not striate in fruit, lobes short triangular acute. 



ASSAM ; banks of the Kullung river, Simons. 



A small loosely tufted speoies, stern and branches slender but rigid, with the whorls 

 of leaves rather distant. Upper flowers sessile, lower pedicelled. Corolla fa-\ m - 



