766 BENGAL PLANTS. { Depatrium. 
Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped eae oe ; tube ani below, 
dilated upwards; upper outer lip s 2-fid ; lower lip broad, 
3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 2, upper ae soteat: anthers with 
parallel, distinct, equal cells; lower pair of stamens represented 
by 2 staminodes. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules 
many in each cell; style short; stigma 2-lamellate. Prwit a 
small, globose or oblong capsule, opening loculicidally, the valves 
carrying away the placentas. Seeds numerous, very small, 
tubercled. 
1433. Doparrium junceuM Ham.; F. B. I. iv. 274. Gratiola 
juncea F. I. i. 142. 
In all the province 
A weed of rice- ‘Gelade and swamps. 
655. Torenia Linn. 
Herbs, glabrous or a ti a leaves jer entire, crenate 
or serrate. wers often showy, or in terminal or 
pseudo-axillary racemes or ois iat 0. Sepals connate 
in a 2-lipped or 3-5-toothed, 3-5-winged or -folded or -keeled calyx. 
Petals 5, connate in a 2-lipped corolla; tube cylindric, somewhat 
curved, dilated upwards ; upper outer lip erect, concave or pinched, 
notched or 2-fid; lower larger, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 
didynamous, 2 upper included, adnate to corolla-tube, 2 lower 
adnate to cost, appendaged or not at base and connivent under 
the upper lip; anthers in contact or connate in pairs; cells often 
confluent. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules in each 
eg numerous; style slender; stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit a linear 
r oblong, included, septicidal capsule; valves separating from the 
SARS ART dissepiment. Seeds many, rugose or cancellate. 
Flowers axillary, solitary or 2-nate, or subumbellate at the ends of the 
branches :— 
Longer pair of filaments toothed ; calyx keeled only............... vagans. 
_ Longer pair of filaments not toothed; calyx wide-winged :— 
Wings of calyx decurrent on the di ice edentula 
Wings of calyx not decurrent on the pedic cordifolia 
via axillary and racemed at the ‘aes of bel branches, longer pair of 
ents not toothed ; calyx wide-winged Fourniert 
1434. Torenia vacans Roxb.; F. I. iii. 96; F. B. I. iv. 277. 
Chittagong. 
An erect or decumbent, almost glabrous herb. 
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