Liauiqphifa.] cm. scRornuLARiNE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 



long. Calyx hemispheric in fruit, membranous. Capsule broadly oblong, nearly as 

 long as the calyx. A very singular little species. 



ft Flowers pedicelled, pedicels usually longer than the calyx. 



20. Xi. racemosa, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 26, and in DC. Prodr. x. 390; 

 stem 1-2 ft. stout erect, leaves sessile upper opposite or 3-nately whorled 

 ^-amplexicaul ovate or linear-oblong serrulate, lower capillaceo-multifid, 

 flowers large usually in erect terminal racemes, calyx-lobes ovate acuminate, 

 fruiting not striate. Wall. Cat. 3907; Wight Ic. t. 861; Dalz. Sf Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 177. L. Benthamiana, Miquel Plant. Hohenack. n. 71 c. L. 

 Roxburghii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 388, not of Don. Cyrilla aquatica 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. ii. 47, t. 189, and Fl. Ind. iii. 115. 



Pools, &c., in BENGAL ; at Dinagepore, Clarice. MAEWAE ; Mt. Aboo, Kurz. 

 DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON, common. DISTEIB. Java. 



Stem hirsute or glabrous. Leaves 1^-2 by |-J in. most minutely punctate 

 beneath, nerves strong. Racemes 2-6 in., strict ; pedicels |-f in., much longer than 

 the bracts. Calyx \ in. ; lobes with slender points, fruiting membranous. Corolla 

 \ in. diam., -f in., bluish or purple, fragrant. Capsule almost globose. The upper 

 part of this resembles L. hypericifolia with pedicelled flowers ; some states are with 

 difficulty distinguished from C. heterophylla, and small ones from L. gratioloides. 



21. Xi. gratioloides, Br. Prodr. 442 ; glabrous, stem short erect or 

 diffusely branched or elongate and slender, leaves all whorled and pinnatifid 

 or a few upper entire and opposite, or upper pinnatifid and lower multifid, 

 iiowers axillary solitary pedicelled rarely subracemose, calyx hemispheric in 

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

 Prodr. x. 389 ; Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. 447, t. 57, f. 1 ; Wall. Cat. 3901 ; 

 Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 177 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 683. L. trifida, 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 802. L. myriophylloides, Roth Nov. Sp. 294. Gratiola 

 virginiana" Linn. Sp. PI. 25 (the Malabar plant). G. trifida, Willd.Sp. PI. 

 i. 104. Hottoma indica, Linn. Sp. PI. 208 ; Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 55, f. 1. Hy- 

 dropityon pedunculatum, Serinae in DC. I. c. i. 422. Columnea balsamea, 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. W.Rhcede tfort. Mai. ix. t. 85, and xii. t. 36. Burm. Fl. 

 Zeyl. t. 55, f. 1. 



Throughout INDIA, in swamps, rice-fields, &c. DISTEIB. Beluchistan, Malayan 

 Islands, China, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



In its most common form a simple or branched plant 4-8 in. high, smelling of 

 turpentine, with whorled pinnatifid leaves, \~\ in. long, which in wetter places appear 

 to acquire a few emersed opposite entire leaves at the top of the stem, and numerous 

 capillaceo-multifid ones at its base. The stems are stout or slender. Very small 

 specimens from Rohilkund (Kuttra, Edgeworth) have very fine wiry simple stems 

 3 in. high, and capillary peduncles three times as long as the leaves ; others have 

 stout stems and peduncles, the latter shorter than the leaves. Calyx |- in. long, 

 rarely larger. Corolla ^ in. Large specimens of var. intermedia approach L. race- 

 mosa ; short-pedicelled onps are hardly distinguishable from L. sessiliflora ; and the var. 

 elongata is almost identical with L. heterophylla. Bentham's var. myriophylloides 

 does not seem to me distinguishable from the common form of gratioloides. 



VAE. intermedia ; stem robust, leaves all close-set, flowers sometimes racemose 

 with opposite entire bracteal leaves. N.W. India ; Moradabad, Thomson; Garwhal, 

 Strachey $ Winterb. (L. Roxburghii in Serb.); Subsiwaliks ? Edgeworth; Kangra 

 and Dharmsala, alt. 3-4000 ft., Clarke. (Beluchistan, Stocks). 



VAE. elongata, Benth. in DC. I.e.; stem very long, upper leaves opposite 

 entire, submerged capillaceo-multifid. L. elongata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3903. 

 Oude, Wallich ; Moradabad, Thomson; Deccan, Heyne, &c. 



22. Zi. Griffith!!, Hook. f. ; glabrous, stems densely tufted, branches 



