Dopatrium.} SCROPHULARINE. 765 
653. Herpestis Gaertn. f. 
Glabrous herbs; leaves often punctate, entire or toothed, or 
submerged and multifid. Flowers axillary or racemose ; bracteoles 
small or 0. Sepals connate below in a 5- -partite calyx; lobes 
imbricate, the upper largest, the two lateral innermost often ve ry 
narrow. Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped corolla; tube cylindric ; 
upper lip outermost, spreading, emarginate or 2-lobed; lower 
3-lobed. n. , didynamous, included ; anthers sometimes 
approximate in pairs; cells contiguous, eee distinct. Carpels 
connate in a 2-celled ov ary; ovules in each cell many; style 
dilated at top; stigma entire or 2- Yobed" Svar a globose or ovoid, 
2-2rooved capsule; valves 2 or 4, separating septicidally and locu- 
licidally from the placentiferous dissepiment. Seeds many, very 
minute. 
Leaves ovate or obovate ; flowers long-peduncled ; capsule ovoid :— 
Creeping, leaves obovate- oblong or spathulate, entire, obtuse; corolla 
tinged with purple Tonnieria 
Krect ; leaves ovate, crenate-serrate, subacute ; corolla yellow 
chamedroides, 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, entire or subserrate ; flowers sessile; capsule 
glo bose Hamiltoniana 
Pee resee 
1480. ney 3 Monnieria H. B. & K.; F. B. I. iv. 272; E. D. 
H.1 ratiola Monnieria F, I. i. 141. 
In all the provinces. 
‘ art succulent marsh weed. Uriya azo 
arni; Beng. Adha-birni; Hind. Safed chamn 
1431. aneren CHAMEDROIDES Linn. 
C. Bengal. 
A small weed of garden paths, of recent introduction, 
but now pial ae naturalised. Native of America. 
1432. Herpestis Hammronrana Benth. ; F. B. I. iv. 272. 
Chota Nagpur ; ‘alee E. Bengal. 
An erect, glabrous weed of wet places. 
654. Dopatrium Ham. 
Annual, slender, glabrous marsh herbs; leaves few, opposite, 
lower pairs sm mall, upper remote, minute. Flowers 
axillary, violet ; pedicels short or slender; bracteoles 0. Sepals 
connate in a small, 5-partite calyx; lobes narrow, Sebel 
