266 cm. scEOPHULARiNEiB. (J. D. Hooker,) [LimnopMla. 



386 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. M. 175. Herpestis riagosa, Both Nov. 8p. 290. 

 Capraria gratisaima, Soxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 92, {excl. citat. of Bheede). Ajitir- 

 rhiniiin gratissimum, Boxh. Ic. ined. Stemodia mentiastrum., Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 23 ; Wall. Cat. 3927. Adenosma triflora, Seem. Fl. Viti 284, not of 

 Nees. 



Watery places in the plains of N. India, and outer Himaiata, ascending to 

 6000 ft., from Chamba to Mishmi; Assam, Beh&al, Siihet, Cbntbal India, and 

 the CoNOAN and Ciecaes. — Distbib. Java, China, the Philippines, Pacific Islands. 



Annual, aromatic; root creeping ; stems many, 1-2 ft., stout; " nodes under water 

 emitting many fibrous roots or mnltifid filiform leaves," Roxburgh, tieaves 2-3 in., oftm 

 rugose, narrowed into a petiole of J-1 in. ; nerves many, stout. Flowers usually in 

 axillary sessile or shortly peduncled heads. Corolla ^ in. long, pubescent, blue-purple, 

 mouth yellow. Capsule ellipsoid.— Roxburgh's drawing identifies this plant with his 

 Gaprana gralissima. He quotes Kheede's Pola-tsjira (ix. t. 78) for the same, but I 

 have seen no specimens from Malabar, and Eheede makes no mention of the aromatic 

 smell and taste, which he could not fail to have noticed if this plant had been under 

 his observation. 



2. Xi> balsamea, Benth. in DC.Prodr. x. 386; softly pubescent, leaves 

 all opposite sessile elliptic subacute narrowed at tbe base obscurely crenulate 

 punctate beneath, nerves slender, flowers axillary in shortly peduncled heads 

 or spikes, calyx hirsute, lobes lanceolate finely acuminate striate in fruit. 

 Stemodia balsamea, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 23 ; Wall. Cat. 8928. 



Pbgtt, WLelland. Tenassbeim, Wallieh; Mergui, Griffith. 

 Stem 1—2 ft., stout. Leaves 1-2 in., entire below the middle, nerves 3-5-pair. 

 Corolla i in., twice as long as the calyx. Capsule broadly elliptic, obtuse. — i. villi- 

 fera, Miqnel, of Sumatra, is probably this. 



3. Ii. conferta, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 387 ; erect or procumbent, 

 glabrous except the inflorescence, leaves all opposite sessile or subpetioled 

 oblong or elliptic-oblong obtuse crenate-serrate punctate beneath, base 

 narrowed or subamplexicanl, nerves slender, flowers a^dllary solitary or in 

 short axillary heads spikes or cymes, calyx glabrate, segments lanceolate 

 finely acuminate striate in fmit. Dalz. if Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 177. L. repens, 

 Benth. I. c. 387. L. serrata, Benth. I. c. {the Burma plant only) ; Thwaites 

 Fniim. 218. ? L. punctata, Vahl Enum. i. 90, and Bonnaya punctata, O. 

 Don Gen. Syst. iv. 538. Stemodia sessilis, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 23 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 3939. S. tenuiflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 23 ; Wall. Cat. 8940. S. 

 repens, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3935. Gratiola lucida, Heyne. — ? Bheede Sort. 

 Mai. ix. t. 78. 



Marshes, from Assam, Bengad and CHiTiAGONa to Tbnasseeim and Bttema j 

 throughout the Deooan and Ceylon. 



A very variable plant ; in its larger state difiuse, 12-18 in. long, with subpetioled 

 leaves 1-lJ in. long, and often spicate flowers ; in its smaller {St. sessilis, Wall.) short, 

 stout, with quite sessile oblong leaves J in. long, and crowded axillary flowers ; in its 

 smallest state {St. ie»ai/?ora,Wall., and serrata, Bth.) erect or procumbent, with oblong 

 sessile leaves |-J in. long and solitary axillary flowers. Between these there are all 

 intermediates. Thwaites has reduced all to Gaudichaud's L. serrata, a Polynesian 

 plant with solitary flower and sepals not striated. — Leaves very minutely punctate, 

 entire below the middle, nerves few, faint. Corolla about J in. long. Capsule as in 

 i. balsamea, but much smaller. — Heyne's Cfratiola lucida, referred here by Bentham, 

 is a small creeping form approaching i. micrantha. 



4. Xi. diffusa, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 387, not of G. Don; erector 

 decumbent, pubescent, leaves all opposite petioled eUiptic-ovate or oblong- 

 lanceolate subacute crenate-serrate punctate beneath, nerves slender, flowers 



