lAmnopMla.'] cm. scrophularine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 267 



in sTiort axillary cymes or long spikes or racemes, calyx hirsute, lobes 

 lanceolate finely acuminate striate in fruit. L. camphorata, JBenth. in Watt. 

 Cat. 3932, and Scroph. Ind. 24, not of Vahl. Stemodia cimicina, Benth. 

 in WaU. Cat. 3933. 



Easteen BsiinJAii to CHiiTAaoNG, Burma and Tenasseeim. Teatanooee, 

 Wight. Canaba, SohenacJcer. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



Closely allied to S. coi^erta, but with pubescent more strongly nerved crenate- 

 serrate leaves, and often racemose flowers. — Roxburgh's Capraria diffusa (LimnopHla 

 diffusa, G. DonJ is JSbermeyera thyrsoidea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soo. 1870. 



5. Ii. mlcrantliaj JBenth. in DC. Prodr. x. 387 ; small, creeping below, 

 glabrous, leaves opposite small sessile entire or subaerrate, nerves very 

 obscure, flowers axillary subsessUe, calyx ' in. long glabrous, lobes subulate 

 fruiting striate. Stemodia micrantha, JBenth. Scroph. Ind. 23 ; WaU. Cat. 

 3936. Herpestis pygmsea. Griff. Notul. iv. 104. 



Marshy places in BEifaAi., ASSAM, Silhet, CHiTTASoifa and Tenasseeim. — 

 Disteib. Cochin-China. 



Stem 3-6 in., stout, branching from the root. Leaves crowded, }— J in., punctate, 

 thick, teeth few. Flowers |-^ in. long, red-purple. — ^A very distinct little species. 



ft Flowers pedicelled. Leaves all opposite. — See also 10, L. gratissima ; 

 and 11, L. birsuta. 



6. Ii. laxa, JBenth. in DC. JProdr. x. 388; stem 8-12 in. slender flaccid 

 sparsely hairy, leaves all opposite subsessile or petioled oblong-lanceolate 

 obtuse subcrenate, nerves very slender, flowers solitary axillary, pedicels 

 longer than the calyx, calyx hirsute, lobes subulate fruiting striate. Her- 

 pestis sp. 2, Griff. Notul. iv. 103. 



Tenasseeim ; at Mergui, Griffith ; Tavoy, Parish. Cexion, Walker. 

 Stem ascending, rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves j-lj in., flaccid, narrowed 

 into a short petiole. — Resembles a reduced form of i. hirsuta. 



7. Ii. erecta, Senth. in DC. JProdr. x. 388; glabrous, stem 4-6 in. 

 Bubsimple stout erect, leaves all opposite subsessile linear-oblong subserrate, 

 nerves obscure, flowers solitary axillary, pedicels shorter than the calyx, 

 fruiting recurved, calyx J in. glabrous, lobes lanceolate acuminate fruiting 

 striate. Maxim. JDiagn. PI. Nov. Dec. xix. 406. Stemodia gratibloides,JBe»<A. 

 Scroph. Ind. 25 ; WaU. Cat. 3938. 



Bbnoal; Serampore, Griffith. Tbnassebim; at Tavoy, WdlUch.—DiaTniB. 

 China. 



A small stout species, with leaves rarely 1 in. long. 



8. Ii. pulcherrima, JBJooh.f. ; stem 4-6 in. pubescent, stout, erect or 

 ascending, leaves all opposite sessile elliptic-oblong subcrenate, nerves 

 obscure, flowers axillary solitary, pedicels shorter than the calyx fruiting 

 erect, calyx J in. hirsute, lobes subulate acuminate fruiting striate. L. laxa, 

 JBenth. in DC. Prodr. x. 388, in part. L. villosa var. sumatranaj Miquel JFl. 

 Ind. Bat. ii. 68. Herpestis pulcherrima. Griff. Notul. iv. 104. 



BENGtAl.; at Comiila, Clarice. MALACCA, Griffith, Cuming. Singapoeb, G. 

 Thomson. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



Very closely allied to L. laxa and Z. erecta, differing from the former in the stout 

 erect habit, and more sessile shorter leaves ; and from the latter in the pubescence and 

 the erect fruiting pedicels. 



