272 cm. SCROPHULARINE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Limnopliila. 



short 1-2 in. densely clothed with short whorled rAultifid leaves, flowers 

 solitary long-pedicelled, fruiting pedicels deflexed. L. sessiliflora, Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 99, t. 418, f. 5. L. gratioloides var. myriophylloides, Bentli. in DC. 

 Prodr. x. 389 (the Malacca plant). Quinquelobus glaber, Benj. in Linncea, 

 xx. 316. Benjaminea glabra, Benj. I. c. 761. 



MALACCA, Cuming, Griffith, Maingay. 



A small black densely tufted herb, with creeping tufted stems that send down long 

 rigid roots, and up short stout and stiff or slender flaccid branches. Leaves about 

 | in. long, usually densely imbricate. Pedicels % in. and less, slender. Calyx ^-^ 

 in. long, fruiting not seen. Corolla ^ in. long. This may, as Griffith supposed, be 

 referable to L. sessiliflora, as some of the specimens have pedicels shorter than the 

 leaves, but its habit is very singular, it is of remarkably small size, and the specimens 

 from all three collectors agree. It closely resembles a West African white-flowered 

 plant found near Nufa on the Niger by Barter. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



L. HTSSOPIFOLIA, Roth Nov. Sp. 297 ; is not determinate ; it is a Peninsular 

 species, and possibly L. gratissima or racemosa. 



18. HERPESTIS, Gaertn.f. 



Glabrous, often punctate herbs. Leaves entire, or toothed, or submersed 

 and multifid. Flowers axillary or racemose, yellow blue or white ; pedicels 

 bracteolate or not. Sepals 5, upper often very large. Corolla-tube cylin- 

 dric ; lips spreading, upper the outer in bud, notched or 2-lobed ; lower 

 3-lobed. Stamens didynamous, included ; anther-cells contiguous, distinct. 

 Style dilated at the top and 2-lobed or entire. Capsule 2-grooved ; valves 

 2 or 4, separating from an entire column. Seeds numerous, very minute. 

 Species about 50, all warm countries. 



The Indian species all belong to the section Bramia, with subequal corolla-lobes 

 and stamens, sagittate or didymous anthers, and capitate 2-lobed stigma. 



1. H. BXonniera, H. B. $ K. ; Bentli. Scroph. Ind. 30, and in DC. 

 Prodr. x. 410 ; creeping, leaves obovate- oblong or spathulate quite entire, 

 peduncles longer than the 2-bracteolate calyx, upper sepal ovate, capsule 

 ovoid acute. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 426 ; Wall. Cat. 3900 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 178 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 685 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2557. H. spathu- 

 lata, Blume Bijd. 748. Gratiola Monniera, Linn.; Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 41, 

 1. 178, and Fl. Ind., and Ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 141. Septis repens, Lour. Fl. 

 Coch. 392. Bramia indica, LamTc. Diet. i. 459. Rheede Sort. Mai. x. t. 14. 



Marshes throughout INDIA, ascending to 4000 ft. ; from the Punjab to Ceylon and 

 Singapore, common. DISTEIB. All warm countries. 



Quite glabrous, rather succulent ; branches 4-10 in. long. Leaves -f in., sessile, 

 obtuse, entire in the Indian plant, nerves very obscure. Peduncles usually longer than 

 the leaves. Calyx ^-^ in. long. Corolla twice as long, lobes subequal. Capsule 

 included. Seeds pale, irregular. Mr. Clarke points out to me that the Caly triplex 

 obovata, R. & P. of Peru, cited as a synonym of H. Monniera in De Candolle's Pro- 

 dromus, is, according to the figure of the authers (overlooked by Bentham), a very 

 different plant. 



2. H. Kamiltoniana, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 400 ; erect, stout, leaves linear-lanceolate entire or subserrate, flowers sessile, 

 upper sepal ovate-cordate, capsule globose. Wall. Cat. 3898 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 178. Cardiolophus decussata, Griff. Notul. iv. 105, and /<?. PI. 

 Asiat. t. 417, f. 1. 



