Vandellia.J cm. bcrophularine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 281 



oosa, Seichb. Ic. Exot. i. 26, t. 38. Titfcmannia sp. n. 3, Oriff. Notul. iv. 

 117. Homemaunia prostrata, Jacq. Eel. t. 150. 



Easteen and'SoTTTHEEN India; from Bengal and Sikkim to Ave, and throughout 

 the Deeean Peninsula. Cbxion, near KornegaUe, Thwaites. — DisiaiB. Java, Borneo, 

 China, Philippine Islands. 



Very similar in habit, foliage and inflorescence to V. muUiflora, but always hairy.. 

 Corolla blueish white, according to Griffith. 



7. v. scabra, Bentk Seroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414; 

 difEuaely branched, more or less clothe'd with, long white spreading hairs, 

 leaves subsessile broadly ovate or ovate-cordate serrate or entire, pedicels 

 axillary and terminal much longer than the calyx, sepals lanceolate hirsute 

 or glabrous equalling the orbicular capsule. Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 692 ; 

 Gtriff. Notul. iv. 122, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 418, f. 4. V. monnierioides, Ham. 

 mss. Torenia hirta, Cham. Sf Schl. in lAnncea, ii. 571. T. globosa, Ham. 

 mss. Gratiola pusilla, Willd. Sp. PI. i. ' 105. Columnea minuta, Soxb. 

 PI. Ind. iii. 98. Tittmannia pusilla, Benth., and T. sulcata, Sb. TPtght, in 

 Wall. Cat. 3945, 3946 (both in part only). Bonnaya Vahlii, and Stemodia 

 minuta, O. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 538 & 542. Selago pusilla, Thunb. Prodr. 

 PI. Cap. 99. 



Teopioai. India, and in Ceyion ; in rice-fields, &e., abundant. — Distbib. Java, 

 Borneo, China, Philippine Islands, S. AfiJca, Madagascar. 



Stem slender and branches 2-4 (rarely 6-8) inches high, rather rigid. Leaves 

 §-f in., sometimes orbicular, acute or obtuse. Fedicels capillary, J-IJ in., strict', 

 spreading in fruit. Corolla about ^ in. long, three times as long as the calyx. 



Vae. laxa ; stem elongate very slender dichotomously branched. V. laxa, Benth. 

 Seroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414; Dalg. S( Oils. Bomb. M. 179. Titt- 

 mannia pusilla, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3945 C. — Deccan Peninsula, Wight ; Vingorla 

 {Dalz. 4" Cribs.). — This is, I think, only a drawn up state of V. scahra, and hardly 

 even a variety. I have seen no specimen from Vingorla. 



8. V. mollis, Benth. Seroph. Ind. 87, and in DC. Prodr. x. 414 ; 

 procumbent, softly villous all over, leaves shortly petioled ovate tfr ovate- 

 oblong crenate-serrate, pedicels axillary or in axillary or terminal racemes 

 much longer than the calyx, sepals subulate hirsute longer than the oblong 

 capsule. Tittmannia hirta, Benth. in Wall. Oat. 3948. 



SiZKOi HiMAiATA, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. S., &o. ASSAM, SiLHET and the 

 Khasia Mts., ascending to 3000 ft. — Disteie. S. China. 



Stem creeping below, 6-18 in. long, sometimes robust. Leaves 1-lJ in., villous 

 on both surfaces, petiole ^ in. or 0. Pedicels very slender, J-| in. Sepals sometimes 

 nearly J in. long.' Corolla with a brown upper and yellow lower fip. Filaments 

 hairy at the base, with a process. 



9. V. erecta, Benth. Seroph. Ind. 36, and in DC. Prodr. x. 415 ; erect, 

 quite glabrous, leaves sessile elliptic or oblong obtuse 3-5-nerved entire or 

 obscurely crenate, pedicels axillary longer than the leaves and the sepals, 

 sepals lanceolate or linear rather shorter than the ovoid-orbioular capsule. 

 Maxim. -Diagn. PI. Nov. Deo. xix. 413. V. pyxidaria, Maxim. I. c. 419 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 427. Tittmannia erecta, Benth. in Wall. Oat. 3947. 

 Lindemia pyxidaria. All. ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 418 ; Gaertn. Pruct. iii. 

 34, t. 184, f. 8 ; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1723 ; LamJc. III. t. 522: L. 

 Kitaibelii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 557. Ilysanthes gratioloides, Regel Fl. 

 Usur. n. 359, moi of Benth. {ex Maxim. I. o. 420). Gratiola inundata, Kit. in 

 Schultz Fl. Austr. ii. 32. G. integrifolia, Roxl. Fl. Ind. i. 137, and Ed. 

 Carey Sf Wall. i. -^^S.—Eheede Sort. Mai. ix. t. 57. 



Throughout India j from Kashmir to Assam, Tenasserim and the S. Deccan (not 



