Artanema.] cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 275 



ii. 71. Diceros longifolius, Pers. Syn. ii. 164 ; Blume Bijd. 751 ; Wall Cat 

 3884 .BAKfc Sort. Mai. ix. t. 87. 



DECCAN PENINSULA ; on the west side, from the Concan southwards. MALAY 

 PENINSULA ; from Tenasserim southwards. CEYLON ; common, ascending to 3000 ft. 

 DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java, Philippine Islands, Borneo ; Tropical Africa ? 



A tall herb, 2-3 ft, sparingly branched. Leaves 2-4 in., acuminate, entire or 

 serrate. Pedicels equalling or exceeding the calyx, which varies from |- in. long. 

 Corolla lilac. Capsule |-i in. diam. A tropical Eastern African plant from Zanzibar 

 seems the same, except that the upper leaves are more amplexicaul. A Western African 

 plant more similar in the leaves has crimson flowers. 



2. A. ang-ustifolium, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 408 ; leaves sessile narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, corolla -^ in. 

 long, tube narrow. Diceros angustifolius, Wall. Cat. 3885. 



SINGAPOBE ; Wallich, Cuming. 



Very near to A. sesamoides, but the leaves are much narrower, the pedicels usually 

 shorter, and flowers much smaller. 



22. CURANG-A, Juss. 



Diffuse or creeping herbs. Leaves opposite, ovate, crenate. Flowers in 

 short terminal or pseudo-axillary racemes; pedicels opposite, bracteate, 

 ebracteolate. Sepals 4, spreading, upper and lower very large, much 

 enlarged in fruit, lateral small, narrow. Corolla-tube short, upper lip 

 broad, arched, notched ; lower longer, spreading, 3-fid. Stamens, 2 upper 

 perfect, included ; anthers cohering, cells divaricate ; staminodes 2, clavate. 

 Stigma 2 -lamellate. Capsule orbicular, included in the much enlarged calyx, 

 septicidal, valves separating from the broad placentiferous axis. Seeds 

 numerous, rugose. Species 2, Indian and Malayan. 



C. amara, Juss. in Ann. Mus. ix. 320; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 408. 

 Caranga amara, Fa/^ Symb. i. 100. Gratiola amara, Roxb. Fl. Ind., and Ed. 

 Wall. Sf Carey, i. 136. Herpestis amara, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30. Syn- 

 phillium torenioides, Grriff. in Madr. Journ. Nat. Sc. iv. 1, 1. 11. Tristeria 

 assamica, G-riff. Notul. iv. 111. Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. t. 170, f. 1. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3000 ft., Clarice. ASSAM and MISHMI, Griffith. 

 CACHAE, Keenan. CHITTAGONG, Clarke. TENASSEBIM; at Mergui, Griffith. 

 DISTEIB. Borneo, Philippine Islands, Amboyna. 



Annual, glabrous. Branches slender, straggling, divaricate, rooting at the lower 

 nodes, 2-3 ft. long. Leaves 2-2J in., obtuse or acute; petiole % in., slender. Ra- 

 cemes short, few-fld. ; pedicels |-^ in. Calyx in flower | in., in fruit \ in.; outer sepals 

 broadly ovate-cordate, membranous, reticulate. Corolla red-brown. Capsule j in. 

 diam., compressed. Foliage very bitter. 



23. TORENIA, Linn. 



Glabrous or pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, entire crenate or serrate. 

 Flowers axillary or in terminal or pseudo-axillary umbels or racemes; 

 pedicels ebracteolate. Calyx tubular, 3-5-winged or plaited or keeled, 

 2-lipped, or 3-5-toothed. Corolla-tube cylindric, dilated above ; upper lip 

 erect, concave, notched or 2-fid ; lower larger, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens, 

 4 perfect, 2 upper included, 2 lower appendaged^at the base and conniving 

 under the upper lip ; anthers touching or cohering in pairs, cells often con- 

 fluent. Stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule linear or oblong, included, septicidal ; 

 valves separating from the flat placentiferous axis. Seeds numerous, rugose 



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