Lindenbergia.] cm. scEOPHULARiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 263 



from Jamu to the Nilgherries and Tenasserim ; not seen from Ceylon or Malacca. — 

 DiBTBlB. Affghanistan, Burma. 



Annual, 4-10 in. high, brittle. Stem sometimes simple with all the flowers 

 solitary in the axils of large leaves, at others branched, the branches running oat 

 into leafy racemes. Zeaves 1-lJ (rarely 2^) in. long, membranous j petiole J-| in. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled. Calyx J in., lobes recurved. Corolla twice as long, 

 sparsely hairy, yellow. Capsule hairy above the middle. 



15. ADENOSnZA, Br. 



Annual, villous or glamdular, aromatic herbs. Leaves opposite, rugose, 

 crenulate. Flowers axillary or in leafy spikes raoemps or heads, braoteolate 

 or not. Sepals 5, sometimes very large in fruit. Corolla-tube oylindrio ; 

 upper lip erect, entire or notched ; lovrer spreading, S-lobed, base not plaited. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anther-cells separate, stipitate, one cell 

 of all the anthers, or of the two anterior anthers only empty. Style dilated 

 at the tip, winged below the entire or 2-lamellate stigma. Capsule ovoid 

 ellipsoid or lanceolate, 2-grooved, looulioidal and septicidal, 4-valved. Seeds 

 many, minute, reticulate. — Species 8 or 9, Asiatic, Malayan and Australian. 



* Flowers axillary ; outer fruiting sepals very large, cordate or ovate. 



1. A. ovatum, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 949 ; puberulous or glabrate, 

 leaves ovate obtuse orenate-serrate, flowers axillary sessile, 3 outer sepals in 

 fruit very large cordate, 2 inner very small lanceolate. Herpestis ovata, 

 Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30, and in Wall. Cat. 3896. H. javanica, Blume Bvjd. 

 748. Pterostigma ovatnm, 5e»iA. in DC. Frodr. x. 380; Miguel Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. ii. 678. 



Malat Pdnin stiia J from Tenasserim, Chrifflth, to Malacca, Wallich. — Distbib. 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Branched from the base, black when dry ; branches 6-18 in., often roottng below, 

 ascending. Leaves 1-li in., base euneate or subcordate ; petiole \ in. Fruiting 

 sepals ^\ in., membranous, reticulate, pubescent; small equalling the lanceolate 

 capsule. 



2. A. subrepens, 5eTO#A. in Gen. PZ. ii. 949; sparingly hirsute, leaves 

 ovate crenate, 3 outer sepals in fruit large ovate-lanceolate, 2 inner subulate. 

 Pterostigma subrepens, Thwaites Enum. 426. 



Cetlon ; Pasdoon Corle and Nana Welle-Galle, Champion, Thwaites. 

 Very near to A. ovatum, but a coarser, larger, more hirsute plant, with narrower 

 frniting sepals. 



** Flowers racemose, spicate or capitate ; upper fruiting sepal lanceolate, 

 not very large. 



3. A. coeruleum, Br. Prodr. 443 ; erect, visoidly hirsute, leaves ovate- 

 subulate simply or doubly crenate, spikes long, flowers blue, upper fruiting 

 sepal lanceolate, the others linear. Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. 484. A. villosum, 

 Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3851. Pterostigma villosum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 21, 

 and in B C. Prodr. x. 380 (in part) ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 678. P. striatum. 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 96, and Jc. PI. Asiat. t. 417, f. 3. Stemodia ooerulea,jBeMiA. • 

 in J}C. I. V. 381. Herpestis lanuginosa, Blume Bijd. 747. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 0-4500 ft., Wallich, Clarke. Caohab, Keenan. Tenasseeim, 

 SlNSAPOBE, and Malacca, Wallich, &c. — Distbib. Java, Borneo, Australia. 



Stem 1-2 ft., strict. Leaves 1^-2^ in., base rounded or cordate ; petiole J-1 in. 

 Corolla blue. Fruiting calyx 5 in. long ; sepals variable in width. 



