148 SCROPRULARIACE&. [ VANDELLIA. 



2-lamellate. Fruit a linear or oblong sepHoidal capsnle, included, valves 

 separating from the placentiferous dissepim -nt. Seeds many, rugose 

 or cancellate. Species 25, in tropical Asia and Africa, and one in 

 America, 



T. cordifolia, Roxb. Cor. PL ii, 32, t. 161 Fl. Ind. Hi. 95 ; Royle III. 

 291 ; F.B.L iv, 276; Oollett FL 8iml. 353 ; Prain Beng. PL 767 ; Coolce 

 ffil. Bomb, ii, 292. 



An erect nearly glabrous annual, 4-10 in. high. Stems and branches 4- 

 angled or almost 4-winged. Leaves f-l-J in. long, ovate, acute or sub- 

 obtuse, sharply serrate, glabrous, base usually cuneate, petioles |-| in. 

 long. Flowers solitary or fascicled in the axils towards the ends of the 

 branches ; pedicels slender, often exceeding the leaves. Calyx f in. 

 long, 2-lipped, ovoid, cordate or rounded at the base, wings not decurrent 

 on the pedicel, teeth ciliate. Corolla f in. long, bluish-purple. Fila- 

 ments arching, not toothed. Capsules oblong, acute, enclosed in the 

 persistent calyx. Seeds minute, truncate at both ends. 



Dehra Dun. Flowers Sep. DISTRIB.: W. Himalaya from Simla to 

 Kumaon up to 6,000 ft., Behar and hilly parts of Peninsular India, 

 Burma, Java and China. 



13. VANDELLIA, Linn.: Fl.' Brit. Ind. iv, 279. 



Herbs, usually annual, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 often toothed, penninerved (except in V. pyxidarid). Flowers small, 

 axillary or eub-racemose, bracteole* none. Calyx subcampanulate ; 

 lobes free or connate, not winged. Corolla 2-lipped, tube cylindric ; 

 upper lip outside, erect, concave, notched or bifid, lower broader, 3-lobed, 

 spreading. Stamens didynamous, usually, all perfect, 2 posterior usually 

 included ; 2 anterior with arched filaments, appendaged near the base ; 

 anthers touching or cohering in pairs under the upper lip, cells divari- 

 cate. Ovary 2-celled, style slender, stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit a 

 globose or ovoid or long-cylindric septicidally 2-valved capsule, valves 

 separating from the placentiferous septum. Seeds many, rugose. 

 Species about 26, chiefly in Trop. Asia. 



Leaves pinnately veined : 



Capsule equalling the calyx or shorter : 

 Calyx in flower not divided beyond the 



middle . . . 1. V. Crustacea. 



Calyx divided to the base or nearly so . 2. 7. multiflora. 

 Capsule much longer than the calyx : 



Calyx in flower cleft to the middle . 3. V. nummulari folia. 

 Calyx-lobes free to the base or nearly 

 so . . . . . . . 4. 7. pedunculata. 



