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bearing : style dilated at the apex, often 2-lobed, at last shortly 

 deflexed, without wings : capsule globose, ovate or oblong, septii 

 cidally dehiscing or parting, valves at last 2-cleft, margin of tha 

 earpels bent inwards : seeds small, numerous. 



(1) S. viscosA. {Rexb.) 



Ident. Roxb. flor. In^. III. p. 94. — Dec. prod. X. p. 381. 



Engrav. Roxb. Cor. JI. t. 163.— Wight's Icon. t.'l408. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, erect, pubescent, viscous ; leaves 

 sessile, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, acute, harrowed towards the 

 base, at the base dilated arid cordate, stem-clasping : flowers axil- 

 lary, solitary, uppermost ones racemose : pedicels longer than the 

 calyx : calycine segments lanceolate, acute : flowers small, violet. 



Coromandel. Bombay. Flowering in the cold season. The 

 plant has a pleasant aromatic smelh 



GENU'S IX. LlMNOPHIijA. 

 nidynaniia Angiospei^nila^ Sex: Sysi.- 



Deriv. From Limne, a pool, and PMleo, to love ; alluditag to 

 the habitat of the species. 



Gen. Char. Calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted, nisarly equal or 

 with the posterior segment larger : tipper lip of the corolla emar- 

 ginate or 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, throat not plicate : stamfens four, 

 included, cells of the anthers disjoined, oblong, very often stipi- 

 tate : style deflexed a,t the apex, spathulate-dilated, entire or 

 shortly bilamellate, often auricnlately 2-winged at the joint : 

 capsule ovate, globose or compressed, loculicidally 2-valved, 

 valves at last 2-parted, margins of the carpels slightly inflexed, 

 exposing a broad placentiferous dissepiment. — Herbs, growing 

 in swampy or watery places, often dotted with pellucid glands, 

 leaves opposite, or 3-4 times verticillate, lowest ones in thei 

 aquatic species submersed in the water, often cut and divided 

 Hke threads : flowers solitary, axillary, or upper ones arranged 

 in a foliated raceme, often bibraoteolate in the calyx itself. 



(1) L. MENTHASTRUM. (Bcnth.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. X. p. 336.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 177^ 



Syn. Stemodia menthastrum, Senife.— Herpestis rugosa. Roth. 



Spec. Char. Erect, smoothish : leaves subsessile, ovate-oblong, 

 narrowed at both ends : floral leaves of the same shape, longer than 

 the calyx : calyx deeply 5-cleft: segments lanceolate,, subulate; 

 flowers axillary, sessile, clustered in globose heads. 



Tulkut ghaut. Silhet. Flowering in September, 



