Torenia.] cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 



pedicels longer than or equalling the calyx fruiting thickened, flowers in 

 distant pairs, fruiting calyx |-f in. elliptic-lanceolate winged, corolla in. 

 blue. Senth. in DC. Prodr. x. 411 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 689. T. race- 

 mosa, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 38, not of Grriff. T. flava, Wall. Gat. 3957 c. 

 T. coerulea, Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. Suppl. 562. 



PENANG, Wallich. 



Very similar to T. flava, but the fruiting calyx is winged, and the corolla 

 blue. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. EDENTULA, Griff, in Madr. Journ. So. iv. 4. " Suberect, softly hirsute, leaves 

 petioled ovate-cordate subrugose, flowers pseudo-axillary fascicled and racemed, corolla 

 usually pale blue with yellow spots." Upper Assam at Suddya, Griffith. Bentham 

 (in DC. Prodr.) refers his T. peduncularis (Scroph. Ind.) to this, but Griffith's charac- 

 ter of softly hirsute is irreconcilable. It may be Vandellia mollis. 



TOEENIA ? Tresteira lanceolata, Grin . Notul. iv. Ill, t. 458, f. 6, from Mergui, 

 with terete pubescent stems suffruticose below, is undeterminable. 



24. VANDELLIA, Linn. 



Herbs, usually annual, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves opposite, often 

 toothed, penninerved (except in V. erect a). Flowers small, axillary or 

 racemose; pedicels ebracteolate. Sepals 5, free or connate in a subcam- 

 panulate calyx, angles not winged. Corolla-tube cylindric ; upper lip erect, 

 broad, concave, notched or bifid ; lower broader, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 

 4, all perfect (except Y. molluginoides] ; 2 posterior usually included ; 2 

 anterior with arched filaments appendaged at or towards the base ; anthers 

 touching or cohering in pairs under the upper lip, cells divaricate. Stigma 

 2-lamellate. Capsule septicidal, valves separating from the placentiferous 

 septum. Seeds rugose. Species about 30, chiefly tropical Asiatic. 



* Capsule about equalling the calyx in length, or shorter, 

 f Calyx in flower 5-cleft to the middle or above it. 



1. V. Crustacea, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 35, and in DC. Prodr. x. 413 ; 



diffusely branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, leaves shortly petioled ovate 

 or lanceolate, pedicels axillary or subracemose, calyx shortly 5-lobed exceed- 

 ing the 'oblong-ovate obtuse capsule. Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 180; 

 Wight Ic. t. 863 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 690. V. alba, Senth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 35. Torenia varians, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 96. T. lucida, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3962. T. alba, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3261, in part. T. flaccida, 

 Sr. - Prodr. 440. Gratiola lucida, Vahl Enum. i. 95. ? Eoxb. Cor. 

 PI. ii. 2, t. 202, and Fl. Ind., and Ed. Carey Sf Wall. i. 138. G. aspera, 

 Moth Nov. PI. 11. Peristeira paniculata, Grriff. Notul. iv. 119. Capra- 

 ria Crustacea, Linn. Mant. 87. Morgania lucida & aspera, Spreng. Syst. 

 ii. 802, 803. Mimulus javanicus, Slume Sijd. 283. Hornemannia ovata, 

 Link # Otto Ic. PI. Sel. i. 9, t. 3. Tittmannia ovata, Beichb. Ic. Exot. 

 i. p. 27. Antirrhinum hexandrum, Forsk. Fl. Mg. Arab. 4&.Rumph. 

 Herb. Amb. v. t. 170, f. 3. 



Throughout INDIA and CEYLON, a weed. DISTBIB. Tropics of the Old World ; 

 rare (introduced ?) into the New. .. "v r 11 



Stem excessively trichotomously branched from the root, 4-18 in. high. Leaves J-l 

 in., entire or serrate. Pedicels J-1J in., slender, strict. Calyx T \, in. long in flower, & 

 in fruit. The citation of Roxburgh's Gratiola lucida is doubtful ; if correct, Kox- 

 burgh's figure of the filaments, where the appendages are omitted, is faulty. 



2. V. mollug-inoides, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 35, and in DC. Prodr. 



