Torenia.] cm. scrophularinb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 



pedicels longer than or equalling the calyx fruiting tMckened, flowers in 

 distant pairs, fruiting calyx |-f in. elliptic-lanceolate winged, corolla f in. 

 blue, Benth. in'DC. Prodr. x. 411 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 689. T. race- 

 mosa, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 38, not qf-Ghiff. T. flava. Wall. Oat. 3957 c. 

 T. coarulea, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 562. 



Penano, Wallich. 



Very similar to T. flava, but the fruiting calyx is winged, and the corolla 

 blue. 



DOTTBTPTJl. SPECIBS. 



T. EDENTTOA, GMff. iH Madr. Journ. So. iv. 4. " Suberect, softly hirsute, leaves 

 petioled ovate-cordate snbrugose, flowers pseudo-axillary fascicled and racemed, corolla 

 usually pale blue with yellow spots." — Upper Assam at Suddya, ChriffltJi. Bentbam 

 (in DC. Prodr.) refers bis T. pedunoularis (Scroph. Ind.) to this, but Griffith's charac- 

 ter of softly hirsute is irreconcilable. It may be VemdelUa mollis. 



TOBENIA ? — Tresteira lanceolata, Griff. Notul. iv. Ill, t. 458, f. 6, from Mergui, 

 with terete pubescent stems suflrnticose below, is undeterminable. 



24. VANDEZiIiXA, Linn. 



Herbs, usually annual, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves opposite, often 

 toothed, penninerved (except in V. erecta). Flowers small, axillary or 

 racemose ; pedicels ebracteolate. Sepals . 5, free or connate in a subcam- 

 panulate calyx, angles not winged. Corolla-tube oylindric ; upper lip erect, 

 broad, concave, notched or bifid ; lower broader, spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 

 4, all perfect (except V. molluginoides) ; 2 posterior usually included ; 2 

 anterior with arched filaments appendaged at or towards the base ; anthers 

 touching or cohering in pairs under the upper lip, cells divaricate. Stigma 

 2-lamellate. Capsule septicidal, valves separating from the plaoentiferous 

 septum. Seeds rugose. — Species about 30, chiefly tropical Asiatic. 



* Capsule about equalling the calyx in length, or shorter. 



■f Calyx in flower h-oleft to the middle or above it. 



1. V. Crustacea, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 35, and in DC. Frodr. x. 413 ; 

 diffusely branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy, leaves shortly petioled ovate 

 or lanceolate, pedicels axillary or subracemose, calyx shortly 5-lobed exceed- 

 ing the Joblong-ovate obtuse capsule. Balz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 180 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 863 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 690. V. alba, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 35. Torenia varians, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ra. 96. T. lucida, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3962. T. alba, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3261, in part. T. flaccida, 

 Br. Frodr. 440. Gratiola lucida, Yahl Fnum. i. 95. ? Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. ii. 2, t. 202, and Fl. Ind., and Fd. Carey Sf Wall. i. 138. Gr. aspera. 

 Both Nov. PI. 11. Peristeira pauiculata, Grriff'. Notul. iv. 119. Oapra- 

 ria Crustacea, Linn. Mant. 87. Morgania lucida & aspera, Spreng. Syst. 

 ii. 802, 803. Mimulus javanicus, Blume Bijd. 283. Hornemannia ovata, 

 Idnk Sf Otto Ic. PI. Sel. i. 9, t. 3. Tittmannia ovata, Reichb. Ic. Fxot. 

 i. p. 27. Antirrhinum hexandrum, Forsh. Fl. JEg. Arab. 43. — Bumph. 

 Herb. Amb. v. 1. 170, f. 3. 



Throughout India and Cbtion, a. weed. — Distbib. Tropics of the Old World ; 

 rare (introduced ?) into the New. 



Stem excessively trichotomously branched from the root, 4-18 in. high. Zeaoes J-l 

 in., entire or serrate. Pedicels J-1 J in., slender, strict. Cak/x -j^ in. long in flower, J 

 in fruit. — The citation of Boxburgh's Gratiola lucida is doubtful ; if correct, Eox- 

 burgh's figure of the filaments, where the appendages are omitted, is faulty. 



2. V. mollugrinoides, Benth.. Scroph. Ind. 35, and in DC. Prodr. 



