VandeJUa.] cm. scbophulaeinej!!. (J. D. Hooker.) , 283 



or otsourely tootbed, pedicels axillary solitary equalling or exceeding the 

 leaves, sepals free to the base half as long as the linear-lanceolate capsule. 

 Tittmannia angustifolia, Benth. in Wall. Oat. 3951. Torenia oalcarata, 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 124. ? Lindernia miorantha, Don Prodr. 85. 



SubteopioalHimaeaya; Kumaon, Mdgeworth; Nepal, Wallieh. Bengal, Assam, 

 the Khasia Mts., Bubma and Pegit. Cetlon, not |oommon. — Disteib. Sumatra, 

 Java, China, Japan. 



Stem sometimes shortly prostrate and rootinj at the bkse ; branches erect, divari- 

 cating, 6-12 in. high, slender or succulent. Leaves j-lj in., rather thick, nerves 

 obscure. Pedicels variable in length. Calyx J-J in., fruiting ^ as long as the 

 capsule. Longer filaments toothed at the base. Capsule linear-lanceolate. See 

 Sonnaya veroniceefolia var. verbencefolia for a very near ally of this plant. 



25. XXiYSANTKES, Bafin. 



Annual, glabrous, slender marsh-plants. Leaves opposite, entire or 

 toothed, paraUel-nerved. Flowers small, axillary or the upper racemose; 

 pedicels ebracteolate, often reflexed in fruit. Sepals narrow. Corolla-tube 

 oylindric ; upper lip erect, broad, concave, notched; lower larger, spreading, 

 3-lobed. Stamens, 2 upper alone perfect, subincluded, filaments filiform ; 

 anthers meeting, cells divaricate ; staminodes 2, ?-lobed, one lobe glandular 

 obtuse, the other glabrous of various shapes. Stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule 

 septioidal ; valves entire, separating from the plaoentiferous septum. Seeds 

 numerous, rugose. — Species 8, N. Am.erican, S. African, Indian and one S, 

 American. 



The staminal characters separating Ib/santhes from Vandellia are not satis- 

 factory J I should prefer that of the nervation of the leaves, which would remove 

 Vandellia ereota (which is hardly recognizable from I. parviflora) to this genus. 



1. X. byssopioideS; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 419; erect, simple or 

 diffusely branched, leaves in distant pairs sessile oblong or oblong-lanceo- 

 late usually entire 1- or 3-nerved upper linear, pedicels axillary filiform, 

 corolla 3-4 times longer than the calyx, fruiting sepals half the length of 

 the ovate-oblong acute capsule. Dalz. S/' Gibs. Bomb. J?l. 179; Miguel 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 695. Grratiola hyssopioides, Linn. Mant. 174; Soxb. Cor. 

 PI. iii. 3, t. 203 (not ii. 1. 128, nor of PL Ind.). Morgania hyssopioides, 

 Spreng. Syst. ii. 803. Bonnaya hyssopioides, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3866 

 Wight Ic. t. 857. 



SiLHET, Wallieh. Khasia Mts.; at Nurfciung, alt. 5000 ft., J. D. S.S^T.T 

 Dbcoan PEimisui.A, abundant. Cbtlon, common. — Disteib. China. 



Usually very slender, 4-18 in. high. Leaves \-\ in., rather thick, obtuse, seldom 

 toothed. Pedicels J-lj in. Sepals narrowly lanceolate. Corolla ^-J in. long, pale 

 blue. Capsule ^ in. 



2. Z. parviflora, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 419; erect, simple or 

 diffusely branched, leaves sessile ovate elliptic or linear-oblong usually 

 entire l-S-nerved, pedicels axillary and in terminal racemes filiform, 

 corolla twice as long as the calyx, fruiting sepals shorter than the ovate- 

 oblong acute capsule. Gratiola parviflora, Soxb. Cor. PI. iii. 3, t. 204, and -F^. 

 Ind. i. 140, and JEd. Carey Sf Wall. i. 141. Bonnaya parviflora, Benth. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3867, and Scroph. Ind. 34. 



Throughout India; in wet places, from the Punjab to Assam, Bengal and the 

 Deccan Peninsula (not seen from Ceylon). — Disteib. Siam, Trop. Africa. 



Very near to I. hyssopioides, but a shorter stiSer more branched plant, more 

 piously flowering, with usually much shorter pedicels, and white or blue flowers not 



