276 cm. scEOPHULAEiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Torenia. 



or cancellate. — Species 20, tropical Asiatic and African, one of them also 

 American. 



The species 4 to 8 are imperfectly characterized, and are very difficult of dis- 

 crimination in the dried state. 



Sect. I. Tridens. Fruiting calyx suborHctilar, broadly winged. 



1. T. polygronoides, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39, and in DG. Prodr. x. 



409 ; creeping, glabrous, leaves petioled |— § in. orbicnlar-ovate serrate, 

 peduncles aixUlary 2-4-fld. Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 688. T. cardiosepala, 

 Benth. I. c. Herpestis polygonoides, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3897. 



Cachab, Keenan. Tenabsebim ; at Tavoy, Wallich. SiNOAPOEB, Penano and 

 Malacca, Qriffifh, &e. Bouton told me'PEiTAira {Miguel). — DisiBiB. Borneo, Philip- 

 pine Islands. 



A slender straggling herb, branches 6-10 in. Corolla J in. diam., white and red. 

 Fruiting calyx ^ in. long, as long as the pedicel. Capsule ovate-lanceolate. 



2. T. mucronulata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. i. 409 ; creeping, pubes- 

 cent, leaves petioled J-| in. ovate acute serrate, peduncles axillary 1-4-fld. 



Tbnasseeimj atMergui, Qriffiih. 



Very similar indeed to T. polygonoides, but pubescent, with rather larger 

 leaves. 



Sect. II. Nortenia. Calyx oblong ellipsoid or linear-oblong, firdting 

 teeled or winged (often cordate in outline in T. cordifolia). 



* Flowers axillary, solitary or 2-nate, or subumbellate at the ends of 

 the branches. 



3. T. cordifolia, Boxb. Cor. PI. ii. 52, f. 161, and Fl. Ind. iii. 95 ; 

 subereet, sparsely hairy, leaves petioled ovate serrate, pedicels axillary 

 and subumbellate fruitmg slender, fruiting caljrx J in. ovoid or oblong 

 ■winged, base rounded or cordate not decurrent, corolla f in. long pale blue, 

 lower filaments toothless. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 39, and in DG. Prodr. x. 

 409, in part ; Bot. Mag. t. 3715 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 180. 



Westebn Himalaya j from Simla to Eumaon, ascending to 6000 ft CENTSAir 

 India, Behab, on Parusnath. The Ciecabs, the Concan, Pegtt and Tenasseeim. — 

 DiSTElB. Java, China. 



Annual, nearly glabrous, 4-8 in. high, usually erect and trichotomoudy branched 

 from the base ; stem and branches almost 4-winged. Leaves 1-1 J in., glabrous ; base 

 cuneate very rarely cordate, petiole rarely as long as the blade. (Pedicels often longer 

 than the leaves. — Clarke remarks that Bentham describes the filaments as toothed, 

 but that he has never found them so, and that Roxburgh's figure represents them 

 as toothless. Sheede's Sort. Mai. ix. t. 68, must be a very different plant. Wight's 

 T. cordifolia from Courtallum with long decumbent stems 12-18 in. long, short 

 petioles, and long axillary pedicels seems hardly the same species, but I cannot eatis- 

 factorily identify it with any other. 



4. T. peduncularls, BentJi. in Wall. Cat. 3956 ; subereet, sparsely 

 hairy, much branched, leaves petioled ovate crenate-serrate, pedicels axillary 

 and subumbellate fruiting thickened, fruiting calyx | in. ovoid or oblong 

 winged, base acute decurrent, corolla } in. pale blue, lower filaments tooth- 

 less or minutely toothed. T. edentula, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x, 410, not of 

 Griffith, and T. asiatica, Scroph. Ind. 38, in part ; Bot. Mag. t. '4229. ? T. 



•exappendiculata, Begel Gartenfl. t. 892. T. alba, Rb. Mam.; Wall. Cat. 

 3961." 



Centeai andEASTBENHiMAiAYA; Nepal, Hamilton ; Sikkim, ascending to 

 7000 ft. Khasia Mts., Assam and Silhbt ; PsNAifa, iSoAomiwr^i.— Dibtbib. 

 Java, Philippine Islands. 



