BonnayaJ] cm. SCROI > HULARINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 285 



petiolcd obovate-oblong obtuse sharply serrate, flowers racemed shortly 

 pedicelled, corolla f in. long, capsules spreading twice as long as the calyx 

 or more. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 420; Wall. Cat. 3856; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 179. B. ruelloides & ciliata, Spreng. 1. c. Gratiola ciliata & 

 ruelloides, Keen. ; Valil Enum. i. 97, 99. G. reptans, Roxb. Fl. Ind., and Ed. 

 Wall. Sf Carey, i. 140. Henckelia Roxburghiana, Dietr. Sp. PI. i. 572. 



Eastern India ; from NEPAL and SIKKIM (ascending to 7000 ft.) to ASSAM, the 

 KHASIA MTS., CACHAR and TENASSERIM. MADRAS, Shuter. SOUTHERN CONCAN 

 (Dalzell fy Gibson). DISTRIB. Java, Philippine Islands. 



Stems or branches often a foot long, with distant pairs of leaves, slender, diffusely 

 branched. Leaves -! in., narrowed into the petiole, finely serrate. Corolla light 

 purple. Capsule 1 in. long, very slender. 



3. B. veronicaefolia 9 Spreng: Syst. i. 41 ; stem creeping or de- 

 cumbent ; branches ascending, leaves subsessile or narrowed into a short 

 petiole oblong or oblong-lanceolate or obovate serrate or subserrate, 

 flowers racemose, corolla - in., capsules erecto-patent twice as long as the 

 calyx or more. Wall. Cat. 3857 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 421 ; Wight 

 Ic. t. 1411 ; Dalz. 4 1 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 178 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 696. 

 B. marginata, Spreng. 1. c. B. rigida & procumbens, Benth. in Wall. 

 Cat. 3859, 3860. B. Eothii, Dietr. ^ Sp. PI. i. 556. B. bracteata, Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 107. Gratiola veronicsefolia, Retz Obs. iv. 8 ; Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 

 SO, t. 154, and J7. Ind. i. 138, and Ed. Wall. Sf Carey, i. 139. G. marginata, 

 Colsm. in Vahl Enum. i. 98. G. racemosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 9. 



Throughout INDIA ; from the Upper Gangetic plain southwards and eastwards to 

 Assam, Travancore and Singapore. CEYLON, common. DISTRIB. Java, Siam, 

 China, Philippine Islands. 



Very variahle in habit, but distinguished from B. brachiata and reptans by the 

 very different serratures of the leaf, which are more distant and less deep. Corolla 

 violet (Roxb.}. 



VAR. grandiflora ; branches short stout, flowers chiefly axillary light blue, 

 capsules smaller hardly twice as long as the calyx. B. grandiflora, Spreng. Syst. i. 

 41 ; JBenth. in DC. Prodr. x. 421 ; Dalz. % Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 179 ; Miguel FL Ind. 

 Bat. ii. 697. B. pulegiifolia, Spreng. I. c. B. Wightii, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3864. 

 Gratiola grandiflora, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 42, t. 179, and FL Ind. i. 136, and Ed. Carey 

 fy Wall. i. 137. G. pulegiifolia, Vahl Enum. i. 98. Henckelia grandiflora, Dietr. 

 Sp. i. 573. I find it impossible to separate this satisfactorily ; it inhabits the same 

 area as B. veroniccefolia and Vandellia pedunculata, which it closely resembles. The 

 name grandiflora is not appropriate. Corolla light blue (Roxb. ) 



VAR. verbencefolia ; branches usually long and slender, leaves narrower subentire 

 or distantly serrate, flowers larger in often elongate naked racemes. B. verbeusefolia, 

 Senth. in DC. Prodr. x. 421 ; Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. FL 178; Wall. Cat. 3858. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1412. B. Roxburghiana, Dietr. Sp. PL i. 559. B. cyanea, Griff. 

 Notul. iv. 107. Gratiola verbeuaofolia & ciliata, Colsm. in Vahl Enum. i. 96, 97. 

 G. racemosa, Roxb. FLInd. i. 138, and Ed. Wall. $ Carey, i. 139. G. Eoxburghiana, 

 Roem. Sf Sch. Syst. i. 123. Tittmannia Colsmanni & Torenia gracilis, Benth. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3950, 3952. This again is with difficulty separated as a variety from 

 B. veroniccefolia, and it inhabits the same area. It bears the same relation to it as 

 Vandellia angvstifolia (which it closely resembles) does to V. pedunculata. 



4. B. peduncular is, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 34, and in DC. Prodr. 



x. 421, and in Wall. Cat. 3865 ; stems erect slender simple, leaves sessile 

 linear-oblong obtuse nearly entire, pedicels axillary very_ long solitary 

 slender much longer than the leaves, capsule nearly three times as long as 

 the calyx. 



SILHET, Wallich. 



This, as Bentham suggests, may be a variety of B. veroniccefolia var. grandifolia, 



