Microcarpea. SCROPHULARINES. 771 
E. Bengal; Chittagong. 
decumbent herb. 
1450/3. Var. GRANDIFLORA; F, B, I. iv. 285. Gratiola grandi- 
Jlora F. I. i. 136. 
A small, suberect herb. 
1451. Bonnaya TENUIFOLIA Spreng. ; F. B. I. iv. 286. 
Behar; C. Bengal. 
A small, tufted weed of wet places. 
659. Curanga Juss. 
Diffuse or creeping herbs; leaves opposite, ovate, crenate. 
Flowers in short, terminal or pseudo-axillary racemes; bracts 
small, leafy ; bracteoles 0, Sepals connate in a deeply 4-partite 
calyx, the upper and lower lobes very large, the lateral small, 
narrow. Petals5, connate in a 2-lipped corolla ; tube short ; upper 
outer lip wide, arched, notched; lower lip longer, 3-fid, spreading. 
Stamens 2, upper only perfect, included, adnate to corolla-tube ; 
anthers connate ; cells divaricate, 2 lower represented by 2 clavate 
staminodes on corolla-throat. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary ; 
ovules in each cell numerous ; style slender; stigmas 2-lamellate. 
Fruit an orbicular, septicidal capsule, enclosed in the accrescent 
calyx-lobes ; valves separating from the wide placentiferous dis- 
Sepiment. Seeds many, rugose. 
1452. Curanca amara Juss.; F. B. Liv. 275. Gratiola amara 
«I. is 186, 
Chittagong. 
An annual, glabrous, straggling herb. 
660. Microcarpza KR. Br. 
A small, slender, diffuse or creeping, nearly glabrous herb; 
leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse, entire. Flowers minute, 
axillary, solitary, sessile ; bracteoles 0. Sepals connate in a 5-fid, 
S-angled, tubular calyx. Petals 5, connate in a shortly tubular 
Corolla ; throat wide ; lobes broad, spreading, the 2 upper partially 
connate. Stamens 2, perfect; filaments filiform; anthers con- 
fluent, 1-celled; staminodes 0. Carpels connate in a 2-celled 
Ovary ; ovules many in each cell; style filiform ; stigma recurved, 
Capitate. Frwit a small, ovoid, 2-grooved, loculicidal capsule, 
included in the calyx; valves separating from the. placentiferous 
dissepiment. Seeds ovoid, rather few. 
