Herpestis.} cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 273 



. Wet places in northern India ; from the PUNJAB, ascending to 3000 ft., MALWAR 

 and the CONCAN, to BENGAL, ASSAM and SILHET. DISTRIB. Senegal. 



Quite glabrous. Stem about a span high, usually very stout and much branched. 

 Leaves -1 in., nerves very obscure. Calyx % in. Corolla-tube hardly exceeding the 

 calyx. 



3. H. floribunda, Br. Prodr. 442 ; erect, leaves linear-lanceolate entire 

 or obscurely toothed, flowers peduncled, sepals membranous outer very broad 

 upper almost orbicular, capsule globose. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 400; 

 Both Nov. Sp. 289 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 684. H. linearis, Spreng. Syst. 

 Veg. ii. 802. H. lanceolata, Wight in Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30 ; Wall. Cat. 

 3899. H. amara, Spanoghe in Linncea, xv. 332 ? Lindernia sesamoides, 

 Spreng. new entd. i. 261. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; common in wet places from the Concan southwards, and 

 CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem a span high and upwards, more slender than in H. Hamil- 

 toniana. Leaves -1 in., sometimes linear, at others contracted into a petiole. 

 Peduncles about equalling the calyx, very slender, 2-bracteolate below the top, 

 puberulous, as are the reticulate sepals. 



19. GRATXOXiA, Linn. 



Glabrous or glandular-pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 

 Floivers axillary, solitary, 2-bracteolate. Sepals 5, subequai. Corolla-tube 

 cylindric ; lips spreading, posterior the outer entire or 2-fid ; anterior 3-fid. 

 Stamens, 2 posterior perfect included, anther-cells distinct; staminodes 2, 

 filiform or 0. Style filiform, stigma deflexed dilated or 2-lamellate. Cap- 

 sule ovoid, loculi- and septi-cidal ; valves separating from the placentiferous 

 axis. Seeds many, small, reticulate. Species about 20, chiefly of temperate 

 regions. 



1. G-. Griffith!!, Hoolc. f. glabrous, succulent, erect, leaves elliptic- 

 oblong obtuse 3-nerved entire, flowers sessile diandrous, staminodes 0, cap- 

 sule globose. 



UPPER ASSAM, on moist banks ; Gabovo, Nam Senna and Noa Dehing, Griffith 

 (Kew Distrib. 3915), Simons. 



Yery succulent, branched from the base, 6-10 in. high ; branches erect. Leaves 

 i~| in., sometimes obscurely sinuate, most minutely punctate ; nerves very slender. 

 Flowers minute. Corolla ^ in., yellow, tube scarcely exceeding the linear-oblong 

 sepals ; lobes short, rounded. Anther-cells parallel, shortly oblong. Capsule in. 

 diam., membranous. Seeds cancellate. A very interesting plant, as being the only 

 tropical Asiatic representative of the genus. 



UNKNOWN SPECTES. 



G. CHAM.33DRYS and G. STRIGOSA, Eoth Nov. Sp. 10, two Peninsular plants of 

 Heyne, are unrecognizable from the descriptions, and no doubt well-known species of 

 other genera. 



G. CHAM^DRIFOLIA, LamTc. Diet. iii. 27 (Limnophila cbamrcdrifolia, G. Don 

 Gen. Syst. 343, is doubtfully referred by Miquel (PI. Ind. Bat. ii. 682) to Limnophila 

 gratissima Bl. (under L.punctata Bl.), of which it may be a small state. 



20. DOFATRXUni, Samilt. 



Yery slender glabrous marsh annuals. Leaves few, opposite, lower small, 

 upper pairs remote and minute. Flowers small, violet, axillary, solitary; 

 pedicels or filiform, ebracteolate. Calyx 5-fid. Corolla-tube slender below, 

 throat broad; upper lip the outer, short, 2-fid; lower broad, spreading, 

 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 upper perfect, included ; anther-cells parallel, distinct, 

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