Herpestis.] cm. sceophulaeine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 273 



Wet places in northern India ; fromthe Punjab, ascending to 3000 ft., Malwab 

 and the CoNOAlf, to Ben&aIi, Assam and Silhet. — Disteib. Senegal. 



Quite glabrous. Stem about a span high, usually very stout and much branched. 

 Leaves J-1 in., nerves very obscure. Cal^iv j in. CoroUa-tuhe hardly exceeding the 

 calyx. 



3. K. floribunda, Br.Prooh: 442; erect, leaves linear-lanceolate entire 

 orobscurely toothed, flowers peduncled, sepals memtranous outer very broad 

 upper almost orbicular, capsule globose. Senth. in DC. Prodr. x. 400; 

 Both Nov. Sp. 289 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. '684. H. linearis, Spreng. Syst. 

 Fey. ii. 802. H. lanceolata, Wight in Benth. Scroph. Ind. 30 ; Wall. Oat. 

 3899. H. amara, Spanoghe in lAnnisa, xv. 332 ? Lindernia sesamoides, 

 Spreng. new erttd. i. 261. 



Deccau Peniksu'ia j common in wet places from the Conoan southwards, and 

 CEriON. — .DiSTBiB. Java, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



Nearly glabrous. Stem a span high and upwards, more slender than in S. Samil- 

 toniana. Leaves J-1 in., sometimes linear, at others contracted into a petiole. 

 Pedundles about equalling the calyx, very slender, 2-bracteolate below the top, 

 pnberulons, as are the reticulate sepals. 



19. eXlATXOXiA, Zinn. 



Glabrous or. glandular-pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, 2-bracteolate. Sepals S, subequal. Corolla-tube 

 •cylindric ; lips spreafling, posterior the outer entire or 2-fid; anterior 3-fid. 

 Siamews,- 2 posterior perfect included, anther-cells distinct; staminodes 2, 

 flliform. or 0. Style filiEorm, stigma deflexed dilated or 2-lameUate. Cap- 

 sule ovoid, loouli- and septi-cidal ; valves separating from the placentiferous 

 axis. Seeds many, small, reticulate. — Species about 20, chiefly of temperate 

 regions. 



1. O. Grifflthil, Hooh. f. ; glabrous, succulent, erect, leaves elliptic- 

 ■obloHg obtuse 3-nerved entire, flowers sessUe diandrous, staminodes 0, cap- 

 ■sule globose. 



Upfeb Assam, on moist banks ; Gabovo, Xam Senna and Noa Behing, Chiffilh 

 (Kew Distrib. 3915), Simons. 



Very succulent, branched from the base, 6-10 in. high ; branches erect. Leaves 

 J-f in., sometimes obscurely sinuate, most minutely punctate j nerves very slender. 

 Flowers minute. Corolla \ in., yellow, tube scarcely exceeding the linear-oblong 

 sepals J lobes short, rounded. Anther-cells parallel, shortly oblong. Capsule ^ in. 

 diam., membranous. Seeds cancellate. — A very interesting plant, as being the only 

 tropical Asiatic representative of the genus. 



UNKKOWN SPECIES. 



G. Chamledets and G. STBiaosA, Both Nov. Sp. 10, two Peninsular plants of 

 Heyne, are unrecognizable from the descriptions, and no doubt well-known species of 

 .other genera. 



G. CHAM^DEIEOMA, LamJc. Diet. iii. 27 (Limnophila ehamsedrifolia, G. Don 

 G-en. Syst. 343, is doubWHilly referred by Miquel (PI. Ind. Bat. ii. 682) to Limnophila 

 grafissima Bl. (under L. punctata Bl.), of which it may be a small state. 



20. DOPATRZVm, Hamilt. ■ 



Very slender glabrous marsh annuals. Leaves few, opposite, lower small, 

 upper pairs remote and minute. Flowers small, violet, axillary, solitary ; 

 pedicels. or filiform, ebracteolate. Calyx 5-fid. Corolla-tube slender below, 

 throat broad; upper lip the outer, short, 2-fid; lower broad, spreading, 

 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 upper perfect, included ; anther-cells parallel, distinct, 



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