282 cm. SCROPHULARINKSJ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Vandellia. 



recorded from Ceylon) . DISTEIB. Siam, China, Japan, Malay and Polynesian Islands, 

 and westwards to France. 



Branched from the base; branches divaricate, not rooting, 4-8 in. high. Leaves 

 J-f in. Pedicels very slender, usually twice as long as the leaves. Sepals - in. 

 long, rather obtuse. Closely resembles Ilysanthes parviflora. So common a plant as 

 this is cannot have escaped the notice of Roxburgh, and I think it must be his 

 Gratiola integrifolia. Maxirnovicz has discussed at length the variations exhibited 

 by this plant, and its passage into the northern Lindernia pyxidaria, in which the 

 flowers are sometimes cleistogamous, the filaments straight and sometimes not 

 appendaged. The Indian forms should be carefully studied. 



** Capsule ranch longer than the calyx. 



10. V. nummularifolia, Don Prodr. 86 ; erect, quite glabrous, leaves 

 sessile or shortly petioled ovate orbicular or obovate obtuse crenate-serrate, 

 pedicels axillary and in subumbellate or few-fld. racemes longer than the 

 leaves, calyx 5-toothed fruiting shorter than the ellipsoid acuminate cap- 

 sule. Senth. in DC. Prodr. x. 416. 



STJBTBOPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-7000 ft., from Kashmir to Sikkim. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Simple or branched from the base, the branches not rooting, divaricate, 4-6 in. 

 high. Leaves J-f in., often as broad as long, nerves subflabellate. Pedicels J-f in., 

 very slender. Calyx in. long, cleft to the middle, teeth acute, irregularly cleft to 

 the base in fruit. Corolla red-purple, lateral lobes of lip white. Lower filaments 

 with a broad obtuse tooth. Capsule nearly \ in. 



11. V. sessiliflora, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 37, and in DC. Prodr. 416; 

 erect, glabrous or puberulous, leaves sessile rounded or broadly ovate crenate- 

 serrate, flowers sessile or very shortly pedicelled, calyx 5-toothed fruiting 

 shorter than the ellipsoid acute capsule. V. minima, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 

 37. Torenia sessiliflora, Senth. in Wall. Cat. 3959. 



SUBTEOPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-7000 ft., from Kashmir to Mishmi. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft. AVA, Wallich. BEHAE; on Parusnath, J. D. H., Clarke. 



Probably a sessile-flowered form of V. nummularifolia, from which the short pedicels 

 alone distinguish it in a dried state. 



12. V. pedunculata, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 37, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 416 ; glabrous, branches long procumbent, leaves shortly petioled ovate 

 obscurely crenate-toothed, pedicels axillary much longer than the leaves 

 and in terminal racemes, sepals free to the base half as long as the linear- 

 lanceolate capsule. Dalz. <Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 179 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 120, and 

 Ic. PL Asiat. t. 418, f. 2. V. Koxburghii & cordifolia, G. Don Gen. Syst. 

 iv. 549. Gratiola cordifolia, Va/il Enum. i. 97 ; Don Prodr. 85. Bonnaya 

 cordifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 42. Tittmannia grandiflora, Senth. in Watt. 

 Cat. 3949. Torenia diffusa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 95. T. varians, Griff. Notul. 

 iv. 125, not ofJKoxb. 



Throughout INDIA, and in CEYLON ; abundant in rice-swamps. DISTEIB. Borneo, 

 China, Cochin-China. 



Stem sometimes creeping at the base, branches 4-10 in., slender, prostrate. 

 Leaves |-1 in., obtuse or subitcute. Pedicels twice as long as the leaves, sometimes 

 1 in. Sepals ^ in., narrowly lanceolate. Corolla white, or pale blue with a white 

 spot. Longer filaments with a small obtuse tooth. Capsule ^ in. I have seen no 

 specimen of Bentham var. /3 parviflora from Ceylon. See Bonnaya peduncularis and 

 veroniccefolia for remarks. 



13. V. ang-ustifolia, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 37, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 417; diffuse, glabrous, leaves sessile linear or linear-lanceolate obtuse entire 



