146 SCROPRULARIACEJE. [LIMNOPHILA. 



Java and Trop. Africa. This species olosely resemble short-flowered 

 forms of L. gratioloides, also states of L. heterophylla in which the 

 multifid submerged leaves are not present. 



2. L. racemosa, Benin. Scroph. Ind. 442 ; F. B. L iv, 271 ; Prain Beng. 

 PL 764; Cooke. Fi. Bomb, ii, 291. Cyrilla aquatiea Roxb.-, ii, 115. 



An aquatic herb with creeping roots ; stems stout, erect, attaining 12 ft. 

 or more in deep water, glabrous or slightly hairy. Upper leaves sessile, 

 l|-2 in. long, opposite or 3-nately whorled, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 serrulate, glabrous, |-amplexicaul and somewhat rounded at the base,. 

 3-5-nerved ; lower leaves capillaceo-multifid, often deflexed and root- 

 like. Flowers rather large, usually in erect terminal leafy racemes, 

 2-4 in. long, bracteoles linear-subulate'; pedicels filiform, longer than 

 the bracteoles. Calyx % in. locg, lobes as long as the tube, deltoid, 

 acute or acuminate, often coloured, membranous and not striate in fruit. 

 Corolla % in. long or more, pale-violet with yellow tube ; lobes of upper 

 lip rounded, of the lower acute. Capsules ^in. long, sub-globose, enclosed 

 in the membranous calyx. Seeds truncate at both ends. 



Merwara (Duthie), C. India (Edgeworth) on black soil. DISTBIB: Bajpntana, 

 N. & C. Bengal, Deocan, Ceylon extending to Java. Small states of this 

 species are with difficulty distinguished from L. gratioloides. 



3. L. gratioloides, E. Br. Prod. 442 ; Eoyle III. 291 ; F.B.I. iv. 271 ; 

 Prain Beng. PL 264 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 2 L Columnea balsamica, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii t 97. 



A small herb, 3-8 in. high, with a strong scent of turpentine, roots creep- 

 ing ; stems much branched from the base, erect, stout or slender, sub-4- 

 angular, rooting from the lower nodes, glabrous, striate. Leaves sessile, 

 usually all whorled, pinnatifid or the lowest multifid, the upper occa- 

 sionally opposite and entire. -f in. long, linear-oblong, serrate-dentate, 

 1-nerved. Hoovers pedicelled, usually axillary and solitary, rarely 

 racemose, bracteoles linear^subulate ; pedicels longer than the leaves, 

 filiform, spreading. Calyx (in flower) %-% in long, membranous, glandular, 

 hemispheric and not striate in fruit ; lobes narrowly triangular, acute 

 or acuminate. Corolla % in. long, pink. Capsules % in. long, sub-globose. 

 Seeds truncate or obscurely rounded, at each end. 



Saharanpur diet. (Boyle), Moradabad (T. Thomson), Merwara (Duthie) 

 Rohilkhand and Bundelkhand (Edgeworth), in swamps and rice-fields 

 Flowers during the rainy and cold seasons. DISTEIB. : Punjab Plain 

 Bajputana and throughout the greater part of India, also in Ceylon, 

 extending to Baluchistan, Trop. Africa, the Malay Archipelago, China, 

 Japan and Australia. 



VAR. intermedia F.B.I. lc. 8t em robust. Leaves all close-set. Flowers 

 sometimes racemose with opposite entire bract-like leaves. Moradabad 

 (T. Thomson). Path Dun (Strach. & W. No. 2). Sub-Siwalik tract 

 Edgeworth). DISTBIB.; Punjab Himalaya 3-4,000 ft., extending to 

 Baluchistan. 



