LIMNOPHILA. ] SCEOPRULAEIACE^E. 145 



violet, glabrous, tube compressed, lower lip hairy in the throat* lobes 

 about equal in length, Filaments glabrous ; anther-cells shortly stalked 

 sub-orbicular. Ovary glabrous. Capsules % in. long, ovoid-oblong, 

 acuminate, 4-valved and glabrous. 



Common within the area, especially in rice-fields and in swampy ground. 

 Flowers during the cold season. DISTRIB. W. Behar, C. and S. India ; 

 also in Afghanistan. 



10. LIMNOPHILA, R. Sr.- t FL Brit. Ind.iv, 265. 



Glabrous or pubescent aromatic herbs, often aquatic or paludine. 

 Leaves with transparent dots, opposite or whorled, toothed or incised, 

 often multifid when submerged. Flowers sessile or pedicelled, 

 axillary, solitary or passing into terminal spikes or racemes ; bracts 

 leaf-like, bracteoles small or none. Calyx 5-partire, segments sub- 

 equal or the posterior larger. Corolla 2-lipped, tube cylindric ; upper 

 lip outside in bud, suberect, entire or 2-fid. ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, 

 throat not plicate. Stamen* didynamous, included ; anther-cells 

 usually separate, s'ipitate. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender, deflexed at 

 the tip, stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit an ovoid or oblong capsule, opaning 

 both septicidally and loculicidally, the placentiferous dissepiment 

 separating with the valves. Seeds many, small, angular, reticulate. 

 Species about 30, in the warmer parts of Africa, Asia and Australia. 



Flowers sessile or nearly so . . . 1. L. 



Flowers stalked, the pedicels usually longer 



than the calyx ; 



Stems 1-2 ft., corolla \ in. long or more . 2. L. racemosa. 



Stems 3-8 in., corolla in. long. . . . 3. L. gratiol aides. 



1. L. sessiliflora, Blume Bijdr. 749; F.B.I. iv t 270 ; Prain Beng. PL 

 764 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 290. 



A small pubescent or subglabrous herb. Stem rather stout, 4-8 in. long. 

 Leaves sessile or nearly so, usually 3-6 in a whorl ; the upper often 

 undivided, lanceolate, acute, serrate or dentate, 3-nerved, the lower 

 divided into numerous very narrow segments. Flowers solitary, 

 axillary. Calyx less than in. long, glandular hairy, divided 

 about way down ; tube hemispheric in fruit, membranous not s triate ; 

 lobes ovate, long-acuminate. Corolla % in. long, pink. Capsule % in. 

 long, sub globose, glabrous. Seeds truncate at both ends. 



In rice-fields and awampy gronod. Flowers in rainy and cold seasons. 

 DISTEIB.: From Punjab Plain and Bengal to C. India and the Deccan ; 

 alao in Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Burma, extending to China, Japan, 



