Flora Of the Malayan Peninsula. 357 



4. Vandellia scabra, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 36. A slender diffusely- 

 branched herb with rather rigid sterns and branches, the latter 2 to- 

 4 in. long ; more or less clothed everywhere with long white spreading 

 hairs. Leaves broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, or orbicular, serrate or 

 entire, acute or obtuse; lamina "3 to "6 in. long, -3 in. wide. Floioers 

 axillary or terminal, on slender capillary pedicels '5 to 1'5 in. long, 

 strict, spreading in fruit, much longer than calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 

 hirsute or glabrous, "1 in. long. Corolla -3 in. long. Capsule orbicular 

 •1 in. long. DC. Prod. X. 414 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 692 ; Griff. 

 Notul. IV. 122, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 418, f . 4 ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 

 281. F. monnierioides, Ham. ex Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 281. 

 Torenia hirta, Cham. & Schlecht. Linnsea II. 571. T. globosa, Ham. 

 ex Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 281. Gratiola pusilla, Willd. Sp. PI. I. 

 105. Columnea minuta, Eoxb. Flor. Ind. III. 98. Tittmannia pusilla,. 

 Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3945 partly. T. sulcata, Wight in Wall. Cat. 

 3946 _pa?'iZ?/. Bonnaya VaJilii, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 538. Stemodia 

 minuta, G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 542. Selago pusilla, Thunb. Prod. Fl. 

 Cap. 99. 



Malacca : Griffith ! Pkov. Wbllesley : King ! Negri Sembilan : 

 Serembam, Bidley 10090! Singapore: King's Collector! Bidley ! — 

 DisTRiB. S.E. Asia generally, Africa, Madagascar. 



5. Vandellia elata, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 36. A slender, sub-erect 

 or diffuse, glabrous or sparingly hirsute herb ; stems simple or dichoto- 

 mously branched, sometimes rooting near the base ; branches slender, 

 6 to 8 in. long or longer. Leaves ovate, coarsely crenate-toothed, acute,, 

 base cuneate entire passing into the petiole ; lamina -3 to -5 in. long, 

 •25 to '3 in. wide ; petiole '15 to -25 in. Flowers axillary or terminal, 

 on slender capillary pedicels -3 to -5 in. long, strict, somewhat spreading- 

 in fruit, much longer than calyx. Sepals narrow-lanceolate, sparingly 

 hirsute, '09 in. long. Corolla very small, pale blue, "1 in. long. Capsule 

 broadly oblong, -12 in. long, as long as the fruiting sepals. DC. Prod^ 

 X. 414 ; Hook, f . Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 280. Tittmannia elata, Benth. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3944. 



Singapore : Bidley .'— Distrib. Tenasserim, Borneo. 



6. Vandellia pedunculata, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 37. A slender 

 glabrous herb, stem sometimes creeping at the base ; branches slender, 

 4 to 10 in. long, prostrate. Leaves ovate, obtuse or sub-acute, obscurely 

 crenate-toothed, -5 to 1 in. long, -4 in. wide, shortly petioled. Flowers 

 axillary and in terminal racemes ; pedicels slender 1-5 in. long, usually 

 twice as long as leaves or longer. Sepals 5, narrowly lanceolate, free 

 almost to the base, '25 in. long. Corolla white, or pale blue with a 

 white spot. Capsule linear-lanceolate, '5 in. long. DC. Prod. X. 416 ; 



