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ments ovate-lanceolate-acute ; corolla about twice as long as the 

 calyx, pale-blue, the throat white and yellow. On garden-walks in 

 the rains ; Tanna. Syn. Hornemannia bicolor, Willd. Enum. 634 ; 

 Lindernia japonica, Thunb. Fl Jap. p 253 (?). 



6. LIMNOPHILA. 



1. CONFERTA, Benth. in DC. Prod. 10, p 387. Glabrous, 

 procumbent; leaves sessile, oblong, rather obtuse, serrate-crenated, 

 narrow at the base ; floral ones similar; flowers axillary, subsessile, 

 solitary or aggregated on little branches ; calyx-segments lanceo- 

 late-subulate ; flowers blue, scarcely longer than the calyx. At 

 Malwan ; flowers in September. Syn. Stemodia sessilis, Benth. 

 Scroph. Ind. p 23. 



2. L MENTH ASTRUM. Erect, smoothish ; leaves petioled, ovate- 

 oblong, narrowed at both ends ; floral leaves of the same shape, 

 longer than the calyx ; flowers axillary, sessile, clustered in globose 

 heads ; calyx deeply 5-divided, lanceolate-subulate ; leaves 2 to 3 

 inches long, with glandular dots on the underside ; corol 5 lines 

 long. Tulkut Ghaut; flowers in September. Syn, Herpestes 

 rugosa, Roth. nov. sp. p 290. 



3. GRATIOLOIDES, R. Br. Prod. 442. Annual, erect, stoloni- 

 ferous; stems round, jointed, smooth; lower leaves verticelled, 

 above pinnatifid or lobed, uppermost linear-lanceolate, all are 

 serrated towards the apex, less than an inch long; peduncles 

 solitary, axillary, longer than the leaves. On the margins of tanks, 

 common. Syn. Gratiola trifida, Willd. sp PI i, 104; Hottonia 

 indica, Linn. sp. PI 208 ; Hydropityon pedunculatum, Lor. in 

 DC. Prod. 1, 422; Columnea 'balsamica, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 97 ; 

 Limnophila myriophylloides, Roth. nov. sp. 294. Submersed leaves 

 capillary. 



4. RoxBURGHir, G. Don> Root creeping ; stems annual, erect ; 

 leaves opposite, subsessile, oblong, serrated; flowers solitary axil- 

 lary, subsessile ; stems emitting capillary leaves at the knots near 

 the root; leaves 2 1 inches long, 1 inch broad ; corolla campanulate, 

 purple. Syn. Capraria gratissima, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 92. 



6. RACEMOSA, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3907. Emersed leaves, 

 lanceolate, opposite or subverticellate, 3-nerved, entire, or the 

 lowest divided ; racemes dense, many-flowered ; calyx mem- 

 branous, smooth, pedicelled ; flowers purple. On the borders of 

 tanks, &c. Syn, Cyrilla aquatica, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 115; L 

 hyssopifolia, Roth. nov. sp. 297 (?). 



6. GRATISSIMA, Blume Bijdr. 749. Stem round-striated ; all 

 the leaves in threes, sessile, linear-lanceolate, serrated ; peduncles 

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