276 cm. SCBOPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Torenia. 



or cancellate. Species 20, tropical Asiatic and African, one of them also 

 American. 



The species 4 to 8 are imperfectly characterized, and are very difficult of dis- 

 crimination in the dried state. 



SECT. I. Tridens. Fruiting calyx suborbicular, broadly winged. 



1. T. polygronoideS; Benth. Seraph. Ind. 39, and in DO. Prodr. x. 

 409; creeping, glabrous, leaves petioled 3 ^ in. orbicular-ovate serrate, 

 peduncles axillary 2-4-fld. Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 688. T. cardiosepala, 

 Benth. I. c. Herpestis polygonoides, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3897. 



CACHAB, Keenan. TENASSEEIM ; at Tavoy, Wallich. SINGAPORE, PENANG and 

 MALACCA, Griffith, &c. Bouton told me PEN ANG-(Mz2eZ). DISTEIB. Borneo, Philip- 

 pine Islands. 



A slender straggling herb, branches 6-10 in. Corolla ^ in. diam., white and red. 

 Fruiting calyx ^ in. long, as long as the pedicel. Capsule ovate-lanceolate, 



2. T. mucronulata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 409; creeping, pubes- 

 cent, leaves petioled |-f in. ovate acute serrate, peduncles axillary 1-4-fld. 



TENASSEEIM; atMergui, Griffith. 



Very similar indeed to T. polygonoides, but pubescent, with rather larger 

 leaves. 



SECT. II. Nortenia. Calyx oblong ellipsoid or linear- oblong, fruiting 

 keeled or winged (often cordate in outline in T. cor di folia). 



* Flowers axillary, solitary or 2-nate, or subumbellate at the ends of 

 the branches. 



3. T. cordifolia, Roocl. Cor. PI. ii. 52, f. 161, and Fl. Ind. iii. 95 ; 



suberect, sparsely hairy, leaves petioled . ovate serrate, pedicels axillary 

 and subumbellate fruiting slender, fruiting calyx \ in. ovoid or oblong 

 winged, base rounded or cordate not decurrent, corolla f in. long pale blue, 

 lower filaments toothless. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 409, in part ; Bot. Mag. t. 3715 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 180. 



WESTEEN HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Kumaon, ascending to 6000 ft. CENTRAL 

 INDIA, BEHAE, on Parusnath. The CIECAES, the CONCAN, PEGTT and TENASSEEIM. 

 DISTEIB. Java, China. 



Annual, nearly glabrous, 4-8 in. high, usually erect and trichotomously branched 

 from the base ; stem and branches almost 4-winged. Leaves 1-1 in., glabrous ; base 

 cuneate very rarely cordate, petiole rarely as long as the blade. Pedicels often longer 

 than the leaves. Clarke remarks that Bentham describes the filaments as toothed, 

 but that he has never found them so, and that Roxburgh's figure represents them 

 as toothless. Rheede's Sort. Mai. ix. t. 68, must be a very different plant. Wight's 

 T. cordifolia from Courtallum with long decumbent stems 12-18 in. long, short 

 petioles, and long axillary pedicels seems hardly the same species, but I cannot satis- 

 factorily identify it with any other. 



4. T. peduncularis, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3956 ; suberect, sparsely 

 hairy, much branched, leaves petioled ovate crenate-serrate, pedicels axillary 

 and 'subumbellate f raiting thickened, fruiting calyx f in. ovoid or oblong 

 winged, base acute decurrent, corolla f in. pale blue, lower filaments tooth- 

 less or minutely toothed. T. edentula, Btnth. in DC. Prodr. x. 410, not of 

 Griffith, and T. asiatica, Scropfi. Ind. 38, in part; Bot. Mag. t. 4229. ? T. 

 exappendiculata, Eegel Gartenfl. t. 892. T. alba, R b. Ham. ; Wall. Cat. 

 3961. 



CENTRAL and EASTEEN HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Hamilton; Sikkim, ascending to 

 - 7000 ft. KHASIA MTS., ASSAM and SILHET ; PENANG, SchomburgJc DISTRIB. 

 Java, Philippine Islands. 



