Vandellia.] cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 283 



or obscurely toothed, pedicels axillary solitary equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves, sepals free to the base half as long as the linear-lanceolate capsule. 

 Tittmannia angustifolia, Benth. in Wall. Gat. 3951. Torenia calcarata, 

 . Notul. iv. 124. ? Lindernia micrantha, Don Prodr. 85. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Edgeworth; Nepal, Wallich. BENGAL, ASSAM, 

 the KHASIA MTS., BUBMA and PEGU. CEYLON, not [common. DISTEIB. Sumatra, 

 Java, China, Japan. 



Stem sometimes shortly prostrate and rooting at the base ; branches erect, divari- 

 cating, 6-12 in. high, slender or succulent. Leaves f-l in., rather thick, nerves 

 obscure. Pedicels variable in length. Calyx - 1 in., fruiting ^ as long as the 

 capsule. Longer filaments toothed at the base. Capsule linear-lanceolate. See 

 Bonnaya veroniccefolia var. verbencefolia for a very near ally of this plant. 



25. ILVSANTHES, Safin. 



Annual, glabrous, slender marsh-plants. Leaves opposite, entire or 

 toothed, parallel-nerved. Flowers small, axillary or the upper racemose; 

 pedicels ebracteolate, often reflexed in fruit. Sepals narrow. Corolla-tube 

 cylindric ; upper lip erect, broad, concave, notched ; lower larger, spreading, 

 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 upper alone perfect, subincluded, filaments filiform ; 

 anthers meeting, cells divaricate ; staminodes 2, 2-lobed, one lobe glandular 

 obtuse, the other glabrous of various shapes. Stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule 

 septicidal ; valves entire, separating from the placentiferous septum. Seeds 

 numerous, rugose. Species 8, 1ST. American, S. African, Indian and one S. 

 American. 



The staminal characters separating IlysantTies from Vandellia are not satis- 

 factory ; I should prefer that of the nervation of the leaves, which would remove 

 Vandellia erecta (which is hardly recognizable from I. parviflora} to this genus. 



1. I. hyssopioides, BentJi. in DC. Prodr. x. 419; erect, simple or 

 diffusely branched, leaves in distant pairs sessile oblong or oblong-lanceo- 

 late usually entire 1- or 3-nerved upper linear, pedicels axillary filiform, 

 corolla 3-4 times longer than the calyx, fruiting sepals half the length of 

 the ovate-oblong acute capsule. Dalz. <$f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 179; Miquel 

 Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 695. Gratiola hyssopioides, Linn. Mant. 174; Soxl. Cor. 

 PI. iii. 3, t. 203 (not ii. t. 128, nor of Fl. Ind.}. Morgania hyssopioides, 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 803. Bonnaya hyssopioides, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3866 

 Wight Ic. t. 857. 



SILHET, Wallich. KHASIA MTS.; at Nurtiung, alt. 5000 ft.,/. D. H.SfT.T 

 DECCAN PENINSULA, abundant. CEYLON, common. DISTRIB. China. 



Usually very slender, 4-18 in. high. Leaves \-\ in., rather thick, obtuse, seldom 

 toothed. Pedicels \-\\ in. Sepals narrowly lanceolate. Corolla %-% in. long, pale 

 blue. Capsule in. 



2. I. parviflora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 419; erect, simple or 

 diffusely branched, leaves sessile ovate elliptic or linear-oblong usually 

 entire 1-5-nerved, pedicels axillary and in terminal racemes filitorm, 

 corolla twice as long as the calyx, fruiting sepals shorter than the vate- 

 oblong acute capsule. Gratiola parviflora, JRoxb. Cor. PI. iii. 3,t. 204, and J<1. 

 Ind. i. 140, and Ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 141. Bonnaya parviflora, Benth. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3867, and Scroph. Ind. 34. 



Throughout INDIA; in wet places, from the Punjab to Assam, Bengal and the 

 Deccan Peninsula (not seen from Ceylon). DISTBIB. Siam, Trop. Africa. 



Very near to I. hyssopioides, but a shorter stiffer more branched plant, more- 

 piously flowering, with usually much shorter pedicels, and white or blue flowers not 



