Vo1 - 3 SCROPHULARIACEAE 439 



Throughout the Philippines at low and medium altitudes, a common weed 

 in cultivated soil, rice paddies, etc. India to Africa, China, Malaya, and 

 Polynesia. 



LINDERNIA VISCOSA (Willd.) comb. nov. 



Hornemannia viscosa Willd. Enum. (1809) 654. 



Vandellia hirsuta Ham. ex Benth. Scroph. Ind. (1835) 36, DC. Prodr. 

 10 (1846) 414; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 280; F.-Vill. Novis. 

 App. (1880) 148; Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) t. 368 

 bis; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 130, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. 

 (1886) 199. 

 Lindernia hirsuta Wettst. in Engl. ■& Prantl Nat. Pflanzenf am. 4 3b 



(1891) 79. 

 Vandellia viscosa Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 246, Fl. 

 Manila (1912) 424. 

 Throughout the Philippines, a weed in cultivated soil, along banks of 

 streams, etc., but much less common than the two preceding species. India 

 to China and Malaya. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Vandellia nervosa Benth.; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 148. 



13. CURANGA Jussieu 



CURANGA FEL-TERRAE (Lour.) Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 



467. 

 Picria fel-terrae Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 393. 

 Caranga amara Vahl Enum. 1 (1804) 100. 

 Curanga amara Juss. in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 9 (1807) 319; 



Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10 (1846) 408; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 



148; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 275; Vidal Phan. Cuming. 



Philip. (1885) 130, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 199. 

 Curania amara R. & S. Syst. 1 (1817) 138. 

 Gratiola amara Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 80, nomen nudum, FL Ind. 



1 (1820) 136. 

 Torenia cardiosepala Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10 (1846) 409, p. p., quoad 



Cuming 579, 



Luzon (Cagayan, Kalinga, Laguna), Mindanao (Zamboanga), Merrill 

 8283, B. S. 7806 Ramos, 37533 Ramos & Edano, F. B. 25003 Mabesa. On 

 forested slopes at low altitudes, ascending to 400 m; rare and local. India 

 to Indo-China through Malaya to the Moluccas. 



Local name: Sagai-uak (SuL). 



14. ILYSANTHES Rafmesque 



ILYSANTHES ANTIPODA (Linn.) Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 



467, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 349. 

 Ruellia antipoda Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 635. 

 Ruellia anagallis Burm. f. FL Ind. (1768) 135. 

 Gratiola veronicae folia Retz. Obs. 4 (1786) 8. 

 Bonnaya veronicae folia Spreng, Syst. 1 (1825) 41; Benth. in DC. 



Prodr. 10 (1846) 421; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 285; F.-Vill. 



Novis. App. (1880) 149; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 130, 



Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 199; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 426. 



