424 A FLOEA OP MANILA 



2 to 5 cm long, base narrowed, decurrent along the petiole. Flowering 

 stems one to several, erect, usually leafless, the flowers scattered, alternate, 

 the bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 to 2 mm long. Calyx green, about 

 7 mm long, cleft half way to the base into 5 oblong lobes. Corolla pale- 

 purple, about 11 mm long, the upper lip ovate, acuminate, the lowef one 

 about 8 mm wide, blotched with yellow above the throat, the lateral lobes 

 broader than the middle one. Capsule about 3 mm long, the calyx-lobes 

 spreading in fruit. 



On wet cliffs, Guadalupe, fl. Oct.-Dec, rare; widely distributed in the 

 Philippines, but local. India to Japan southward to Java. 



8. VANDELLIA Linnaeus 



Usually small, annual, erect or spreading, glabrous or pubescent herbs. 

 Leaves opposite, penninerved, entire, or toothed. Flowers axillary or race- 

 mose. Sepals 5, free or united into a campanulate calyx. Corolla-tube 

 cylindric, the upper lip erect, broad, concave, notched or bifid, the lower 

 broader, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, all perfect, the 2 anterior ones 

 with arched filainents which are appendaged at or near the base; anthers 

 touching or cohering in pairs under the upper lip, the cells divaricate. 

 Stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule septicidal, the valves separating from the 

 placenta-bearing septum. (In honor of D. Vandelli, a Portuguese botanist.) 



Species about 26, chiefly in tropical Asia, about 6 in the Philippines. 



1. Ca|)sule about as long as the calyx or shorter. 

 2. Calyx cleft nearly to the base into 5 lobes. 



3. Corolla about 10 mm long 1. V. puailla 



3. Corolla about 5 mm long 2. V. viseosa- 



2. Calyx 5-toothed, the teeth or lobes not reaching to the middle. 



3. V. Crustacea 

 1. Capsule much longer than the calyx 4. V. cordifolia 



1. V. pusllla (Willd.) Merr. (V. scabra Benth.). 



A slender, erect or ascending, simple or somewhat branched annual herb, 

 6 to 12 cm high, with scattered white hairs. Leaves sessile, ovate, acute or 

 obtuse, entire or obscurely toothed, 8 to 14 mm long. Pedicels axillary and 

 terminal, elongated. Calyx green, 3.5 mm long, cleft nearly to the base 

 into 5, equal, lanceolate sepals. Corolla 10 to 11 mm long, pale-purple, 

 the lower lip with a yellow spot at the base. Capsule about as long as the 

 calyx. 



In open grass lands, old rice iields, etc. fl. all the year; widely distributed 

 in the Philippines. Tropical Asia and Malaya,- Madagascar, and South 

 Africa. 



2. V. viseosa (Willd.) Merr. (V. hirsuta Ham.). 



A small, erect or ascending, somewhat succulent, annual herb, 3 to 15 

 cm high, more or less clothed with spreading hairs. Lower leaves shortly 

 petioled, oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, obtuse, distantly and shallowly 

 toothed, 8.5 to-6 cm long, the upper ones similar, but sessile and somewhat 

 smaller. Racemes simple or slightly branched, the pedicels 5 to 9 mm long. 

 Calyx green, about 3 mm long, cleft nearly to the base into 5, lanceolate, 

 acuminate lobes. Corolla 6 to 6 mm long, pink or white, tinged with 

 purple. Capsules ovoid, about 3 mm longi (Fl. Filip. pi. 868.) 



On wet cliffs, Guadalupe, rare, fl. Oct.-Dec; not common in the Phil- 

 ippines. India to China southward to Borneo and Java. 



