Vanddlia.~\ cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 281 



cosa, Eeichb. Ic. Exot. i. 26, t. 38. Tittmannia sp. n. 3, Griff. Notul. iv. 

 117. Hornemannia prostrata, Jacq. Eel. t. 150. 



EASTEEN and'SotrTHERN INDIA; from Bengal and Sikkim to Ava, and throughout 

 the Deccan Peninsula. CEYLON, near Kornegalle, Thwaites. DISTEIB. Java, Borneo, 

 China, Philippine Islands. 



Very similar in habit, foliage and inflorescence to V. multiflora, but always hairy. 

 Corolla blueish white, according to Griffith. 



7. V. scabra, BenCh. Scroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414; 

 diffusely branched, more or less clothed with long white spreading hairs, 

 leaves subsessile broadly ovate or ovate-cordate serrate or entire, pedicels 

 axillary and terminal much longer than the calyx, sepals lanceolate hirsute 

 or glabrous equalling the orbicular capsule. Miquel Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 692 ; 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 122, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 418, f. 4. V. monnierioides, Ham. 

 mss. Torenia hirta, Cham. <fy Schl. in Linncea, ii. 571. T. globosa, Ham. 

 mss. Gratiola pusilla, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 105. Columnea minuta, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 98. Tittmannia pusilla, Benth., and T. sulcata, Hb. Wight, in 

 Wall. Cat. 3945, 3946 (both in part only). Bonnaya Yahlii, and Stemodia 

 minuta, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 538 & 542. Selago pusilla, Thunb. Prodr. 

 PL Cap. 99. 



TROPICAL INDIA, and in CEYLON ; in rice-fields, &c., abundant. DISTRIB. Java, 

 Borneo, China, Philippine Islands, S. Africa, Madagascar. 



Stem slender and branches 2-4 (rarely 6-8) inches high, rather rigid. Leaves 

 - in., sometimes orbicular, acute or obtuse. Pedicels capillary, $-! in., strict, 

 spreading in fruit. Corolla about g- in. long, three times as long as the calyx. 



VAR. laxa ; stem elongate very slender dichotomously branched. V. laxa, Benth. 

 Scroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414 j Dalz. $ Gils. Boml.Fl.V13. Titt- 

 mannia pusilla, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3945 C. Deccan Peninsula, Wight ; Vingorla 

 (Dalz. $ Gibs.). This is, I think, only a drawn up state of F. scabra, and hardly 

 even a variety. I have seen no specimen from Vingorla. ^ 



8. V. inollis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 37, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414 ; 



procumbent, softly villous all over, leaves shortly petioled ovate or ovate- 

 oblong crenate-serrate, pedicels axillary or in axillary or terminal racemes 

 much longer than the calyx, sepals subulate hirsute longer than the oblong 

 capsule. Tittmannia hirta, Benth. in Wall. Gat. 3948. 



SIZKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H., &c. ASSAM, SILHET and the 

 KHASIA MTS., ascending to 3000 ft. DISTRIB. S. China. 



Stem creeping below, 6-18 in. long, sometimes robust. Leaves 1-1 1 in., villous 

 on both surfaces, petiole in. or 0. Pedicels very slender, -f in. Sepals sometimes 

 nearly * in. long. Corolla with a brown upper and yellow lower lip. Filaments 

 hairy at the base, with a process. 



9. V, erecta, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 415 ; erect, 

 quite glabrous, leaves sessile elliptic or oblong obtuse 3-5-nerveq. entire or 

 obscurely crenate, pedicels axillary longer than the leaves and the sepals, 

 sepals lanceolate or linear rather shorter than the ovoid-orbicular capsule. 

 Maxim. Diacjn. PL Nov. Dec. xix. 413. Y. pyxidaria, Maxim. I. c. 419 ; 

 Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 427. Tittmannia erecta, Benth. in Wall. Gat. 3947. 

 Lindernia pyxidaria, All. ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 418 ; Gaertn. Fruct. in. 

 34, t. 184, f. 8 ; JBeickb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1723 ; Lamk. III. t. 522. L. 

 Kitaibelii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 557. Ilysanthes gratioloides, Hegel FL 

 Usur. n. 359, not of Benth. (ex Maxim. L c. 420). Gratiola inundata, Kit. in 

 Schultz FL Austr. ii. 32. G. integrifolia, Roxl. Fl. Ind. i. 137, and Ed. 

 Carey Wall. i. 138. Eheede Sort. Mai. ix. t. 57. 



Throughout INDIA ; from Kashmir to Assam, Tenasserhn and the S. Deccan (not 



