286 cm. scROPHULARiNE.ii. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bonnaya. 



growing in moist grassy places ; if so, it is a remarkable one, the fruiting calyx being 

 much shorter, not above ^ in. long, and the habit is considerably different. It 

 approaches very closely Vandellia pedu'nculata. 



5. B. oppositlfolia, Sprenff. Syst. i. 41 ; very short, erect, diffusely 

 branched, leaves sessile linear-oblong obtuse subserrate, pedicels short 

 often shorter than the calyx axillary or the upper racemed reflexed in fruit, 

 corolla ^ in. long, capsule small twice as long as the calyx or more. Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 421 ; Wall. Cat. 3862 ; Balz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 179. 

 B. minima, G. Don Gen. Syst. iv. 538. Gratiola oppositifolia, Roxb. Cor. 

 PI. ii. 30, t. 155, and M. Ind., and Ed. Wall. Sf Carey, i. 139. G. minima. 

 Both Nov. Sp. 8. Henckeha oppositifolia, Dietr. Sp. PI. i. 572. 



Deocan Peninscla, Seyne, Wight, &c. 



A much smaller plant than any of the first four species, and with a somewhat 

 different habit, and very small blue flowers ; but beyond the general characters indi- 

 cated above, I am unable to add anything. The flowers are blue [Moxh^, 



6. B. tenuifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 42 ; succulent, erect, diffusely in- 

 tricately branched, leaves sessile linear nearly entire, pedicels axillary and 

 the upper racemed deflexed in fruit, corolla f in. long, capsule slender two to 

 three times as long as the calyx. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 422; Wall. Cat. 

 S863 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii._ 698. B. pusiUa, Griff. Notul. iv. 107. 

 Gratiola tenuifolia, Vahl Enum. i. 95. 



Bengal; at Serampore, Oriffith. Deooait PEifiNSWiiA, Sotller, &c.; Quilon, 

 Wight. Tbnabseeim, Cfri^th. Cetlon; at Peradenzia and Caltura, Macrae. — 

 DiSTBlB. China. 



This appears to be a very distinct species, growing in a tufted manner, probably 

 in marshes, with interlaced branches and slender leaves l-lj by ^g-^ in. The flowers 

 are very small (pale blue, Chriff.), and the capsules vary from i-J in. in length. 



27. BVTKOFKVTON, StioTc.f. 



A slender submerged glabrous herb. Leaves opposite, subulate-lanceo- 

 late, quite entire. Flowers axillary, shortly pedicelled, ebracteolate. Sepals 

 4, subulate-lanceolate. Corolla minute, much shorter than the calyx, 

 subcylindric, membranous, obscurely 2-lipped, 4-lobed. Stamens, 2 anterior 

 perfect, included, filaments very short sometimes gibbous; anther-cells 

 parallel. Ovary ovoid ; style short, curved, stigma subcapitate. Capsule 

 much shorter than the sepals, broadly oblong, compressed, obtuse, 2-valved, 

 valves 2-fid or 2-partite. Seeds many, narrowly oblong, reticulate. 



B. indicum, Kooh. f. Micranthemum indicum, S.f. Sf T. in Hook. 

 Joum. Bat. ix. (1857) 245, t. 7 {excl.fig. of anthers). 



Khasia Mts. ; marshes at Nonkreem, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. S. Sf T. T. 



Sterna 2-3 in., loosely tufted, flaccid, erect, wholly submerged, terete. Leaves J-f in. 

 long, 3-nerved at the base. Sepals J in. Corolla with the lobes closed over the 

 anthers as in submerged states of Li/n^osella. Stamens very variable. — A singular 

 little plant, the flowers of which may assume a different character when the marshes 

 dry up. It is clearly the type of a genus, the exact position of which is uncertain. 

 The anthers are erroneously figured as hairy. 



28. IVEXCItOCARPSIA, Br. 



A very small slender diffuse or creeping nearly glabrous herb. Leaves 

 opposite, sessile, oblong, obtuse, quite entire. Flowers minute, axillary, 



