362 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Boxhurghiana, Eoem. & Schult. Syst. I. 123. Tittmannia Colsmanni, 

 Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3950. Torenia gracilis, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 

 3952. 



Malacca : Hervey ! Pbnang : Curtis ! Perak : Biclley ! Scorte- 

 cliini ! — DisTEiB. Throughout S.E. Asia. 



11. ScoPAEiA, Linn. 



Undershrubs or herbs with twiggy branches. Leaves opposite or 

 whorled, glabrous or pubescent, entire or toothed, punctate. Floioers 

 small, white or yellow, axillary, solitary or 2-nate ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 

 small, 4:-5-partite ; lobes imbricate. Corolla small, rotate, 4-lobed ; 

 lobes imbricate, sub-equal, obtuse ; throat densely bearded ; tube very 

 short. Stamens 4, sub-equal ; filaments filiform ; anthers sub-sagittate, 

 cells diverging or parallel, discrete. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each 

 cell numerous ; style sub-clavate ; stigma truncate or emarginate. 

 Fruit a small, ovoid or globose, septicidal capsule ; valves membranous, 

 with inflexed margins, separating from the placentiferous septum. 

 Seeds many, small, obovoid, angular, scrobiculate. — Disteib. Species 

 about 6, all American. 



ScoPAEiA DULCis, Linn. Sp. PI. 116. A glabrous much-branched 

 erect or ascending leafy undershrub with a strong perennial woody 

 rootstock ; stems 6 in. to 3 ft. high. Leaves opposite or ternate, 

 lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, -5 to 1*5 in. wide, 

 serrate, acute or obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole. Floivers many 

 minute in terminal panicles ; pedicles slender, strict, "25 to -4 in. long. 

 Sepals 4, oblong. Corolla white, -12 in. in diam., tube very short. 

 Stamens sub-equal. Capsiile globose, "15 in. in diara. Voigt Hort. 

 Suburb. Calcutt. 507 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 431 ; Gaertn. Fruct. I. 

 251, t. 53, f. 10 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 699 ; Hook, f . Flor. Brit. Ind. 

 IV. 289. 



Penang : Kampai, Batu Gaja, &c.. King ! Deschamps ! Curtis ! 

 Selangoe : Bidley ! Pekak : Scortechini ! Singapoee : Hullett ! 

 Kurz ! King's Collector ! Deschamps ! — Disteib. Everywhere in the 

 tropics ; originally American. 



12. Steiga, Lour, 



Herbs, semiparasitic on roots, usually scabrid, discoloured when dry. 

 Leaves opposite below, alternate above, linear, entire or rarely toothed 

 sometimes reduced to scales. Floioers axillary, or the upper in 

 bracteate spikes ; bracteoles usually 2. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-fid, 5- or 

 10- or 15-ribbed, tubular. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip inner in bud, 



