152 SC^OPRULAEIACE^. [GLOSSOSTIGMA. 



Corolla % in. long, pink or white. Staminodes shorb, pubescent. Capsules 

 % in. long, narrowly cylindrio, diverging, acute, glabrous. Seeds 

 minute, usually truncate at both ends. 



Abundant within the area, flowering during the rainy season. DISTRIB.: 

 through nut India and in Ceylon: Himilava up to 5,000 ft., extending 

 to the Malay Peninsula, Java, China and the Philippines. 



2. B. veronicaefolia, Spreng. 8yst. Veg. i, 41 ; P.B.I, iv. 235; Prain 

 Beng.Pl.770; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 29S. Gratiola veronicaefolia, Retz ; 

 Fl. Ind. i, 138. 



A decumbent or creeping herb. $em]4-sided ; branches ascending, often 

 rooting at the nodes. Leaves -l| in. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 or obovate, rather distantly serrate or the lower sometimes subentire. 

 Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes. Calyx deeply divided; 

 segments linear-Unceolate, acute. Corolla -^ in. long, violet streaked 

 with purple. Capsules slender, ere-st or somewhat spreading, about 

 twice as long as the calyx. 



Very common all over the area, flowering during the rainy and cold 

 seasons. DISTBIB. : Throughout India and in Ceylon, W.Himalaya 

 up to 5,000 ft., extending tj iVTiUy Pen. and Islands , Siam, China and 

 the Philippines. A very variable species. 



16. GLOSSOSTIGMA, Arn,; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 237. 



Minute glabrous creeping herbs. Leaves opposite or in fascicles, 

 linear or spathulate, entire. Flowers minute, axillary, solitary, 

 bracteoles none. Calyx campanulate, obtusely 3-4-lobed. Corolla 

 shortly tubular ; lobes 5, subeqnal, spreading. Stamens 2 (in tbe 

 single Indian species) or 4, filaments fil ifonn ; anther-cells diverging, 

 their tips confluent. Ovary perfectly or imperfectly 2-celled, 

 style short ; stigma dilated, apathulate, recurved. Fruit a small 

 included loculicidal capsule ; valves entire, separating from the 

 columnar place ntifero us axis. Seeds small, ovoid. Species 3, all 

 Australian, one of which extends to Asia and Africa, and another 

 occurs in New Zealand. 



G. spathulatum, Arn. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xviii. 355 ; F.B.I, iv, 

 288; Prain. Beng. PI. 772 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 299. Limosella diandra, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 91. 



A minute tufted herb with creeping stems and rooting at the nodes, the 

 branches intricately interwoven. Leaves -j 5 '4 in- long, narrowly 

 spathulate, tapering into a flat petiole of variable length. Pedic-els 

 slender usually shorter thin the leaves. Calyx about |^ in. long. 



