280 cni. SCEOPH0LAEINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [VandeUia. 



X. 413 ; glabrous, except the ciliate leaf-axils and calyx, leaves subsessile 

 ovate-lanceolate or oblong base cuneate or rounded margins scabrid, pedicels 

 rigid umbellately fascicled rather longer than the calyx which is 5-cleft 

 to the middle in flower, sepals free in fruit longer than the ovate-oblong 

 capsule. Torenia molluginoides, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3960. 



BuEMA ; Mts. of Prome, Wallich. Pegu, Kurz. Tenassebim j at Moulmein, 

 Xobt, Farish. 



A slender laxly branched herb, 1-li foot high, with the habit of a Mollugo or 

 Solosteum. Leaves J in. long, margin thickened, obsoletely crenate. Pedicels 

 often deflexed in fraib. Calyx ^ in. long in irait. Longer filaments with a very 

 short obtuse tooth, according to Bentham. — In Moulmein specimens I find 2 perfect 

 stamens, and 2 filiform staminodes hooked near the top. 



3. V. Kookeri, Clarke mss. ; diBFusely branched, softly hairy all over, 

 leaves sessile or petioled ovate or lanceolate serrate, pedicels aallary and 

 subumbellate at the ends of the branches about as long as the calyx wmch is 

 5-cleft to the middle in flower, sepals free or not in fruit hispidly hairy 

 much longer than the oblong capsule. — Torenia, n. 10 Serb. S.f. Sf T. 



SiKKiM Tbeai; at Siligoree, Clarice. Khasia Mts.; in cultivated fields at 

 Pomrang, &c., J. D. S. S[ T. T. Pbgu, Kwrz. Behab ; at Farusnath, Thomson, 

 ClarJce. 



Branched from the base ; the branches divaricate and do not root, are rather 

 robnst, 4-8 in. high. Xeaves |-1 in. hairy on both surfaces. Pedicels spreading. 

 Calt/x j-i in. long. Corolla blue-purple. — Very near V. molluginoides, but larger, 

 with much larger flowers, and leaves with margins not thickened. 



tf Sepals in flower free to the base or nearly so. 



4. V. elata, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414; 

 slender, suberect or diffuse, glabrous or sparsely hairy, leaves petioled 

 ovate coarsely orenate-toothed, flowers racemose, sepals narrowly lanceolate 

 equalling the broadly oblong capsule. Tittmannia elata, Benth. in Wall. 

 Gat. 3944. 



Tbnasseeim ; at Tavoy, Gomez ; Moulmein, Lohb, Selfer. 



Stem simple or 3-chotomously branched, 6-10 in. high. Leaves |-J in. ; petiole 

 half as long. Pedicels 2^3 times as long as the fruiting sepals, spreading or deflexed, 

 lower with leafy upper with small lanceolate bracts. Cah/x ^ in. long, fruiting ^ in. 

 Corolla very minute, hardly exceeding the calyx. 



5. V. xnultiflora, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 549 ; erect, succulent, glabrous, 

 leaves sessile or narrowed into a petiole oblong or ovate-oblong or obovate 

 obtuse entire or sinuate, flowers racemed, pedicels exceeding the calyx, sepals 

 lanceolate shorter than the orbicular capsule. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 414. 

 V. erecta, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 36, in part. Torenia multiflora, Roxb. PL 

 Ind. iii. 96. Tittmannia trichotoma, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3943. 



Plains of BekgaI;, not uncommon. 



Stem trichotomously branched, 4-6 in. Leaves in few pairs, 1-2 in., sometimes 

 spathulate. Macemes usually many-fld.; flowers minute. Calyx ^ in. long, fruit- 

 ing 1^ in. 



. 6. V. hirsuta, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414 ; 



erect, succulent, sparsely clothed with spreading hairs, lower leaves petioled 

 ovate or oblong obtuse entire or sinuate upper sessile broader, flowers 

 racemed, pedicels exceeding the calyx, sepals lanceolate longer than the 

 orbicular capsule. Dalz. if Gibs. Bomb. PL 179. V. multiflora. Herb. Ind. 

 Or.H.f. 4' T. in part. Tittmannia ovata, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3942. T. vis- 



