'370 



Ges. Chak. Segments of the calyx nearly equal, scarcely inii 

 briuated in sestivation, almost free from the base or more or less 

 combined into a 5-toothed not plicate calyx : upper lip of the 

 corolla erect, shortly 2-cleft, lower larger, spreading, 3-cleft : 

 stamens four, fertile, filaments of the anterior ones increased by 

 a tooth-shaped and filiform appendage at the b'ase, arChed, anthers 

 cohering between themselves under the upper lip : style dilated 

 at the apex, often bilamellate : capsule globose, oblohg or liu6ar. 

 — Herbs with opposite toothed leaVes : flower's opposite or soli- 

 tary by abortion, axillary or racemose at the end of the branches, 

 racemes often contracted into false umbels. 



(1) V. CRUSTACEA. {BcTlth.) 



Ident. iJeftth. Scroph. Ind. p. 35,^Dec. prod. X. p. 413. 



Syn. Capraria Crustacea, Linn. Mant.- — Torenia crustacea, 

 Cham, et Schlect. in Linn. — Gratiola lucida, Vdhl. — Roxb. Jior. 

 Ind. I. p. 138. — Morgania lucida, Spreng. — T. flaccida, R. Bf. — '■ 

 T; varians, Jioxb, — V. varians, G. Don. — G. aspera, Roth. — M. 

 aspera, Sprang. — Hotn'eiiiannia ovata, LinTc^ et Otto. — Tittmannia 

 ovata, Reichb. Ic. ex. I. p. 27. — V. alba, Benth. I. c. — Antirrhi- 

 num hexandrum, Forsk. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 863.^Roxb. Cor. II. t. 202. — 

 Rumph. Amb. V. t. 170. fig. 5. 



Spec. Char. iDiffuse, glabrous or roughish with few hairs : 

 leaves short-petioled, ovate : peduncles axillary or subracemose' 

 rarely sub-fascicled, 2-5 times longer than the calyx : capstlles 

 ovate-oblong, shorter than the calyx : flowers small, indigo- 

 coloured. 



Coromandel. Bombay. Bengal. Flowering in the rainy 

 season. 



(2) V. MULTirtORAi {G. Don.) 



Ident. Don's. Gard. Diet. IV. p. 549. — Dec. prodi X. p. 414. 



Syn. Tittmannia trichotoma, Benth. — -Torenia multiflora, Roxh. 

 flor. Ind. III. p. 90. .'' 



Spec Char. Glabrous: suberect, much-branched : leaves ovatej 

 obscurely crenated, lower ones long-attenuated into the petiole, 

 Upper ones sessile or half-stem-clasping, floral ones minute : racemes 

 elongated : pedicels almost twice as long as the calyx : segments of 

 the calyx lanceolate-subulate : capsule sub-globose : flowers small, 

 bluish-white. ' 



Monghyr, flowering in the rainy season, 



