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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Roxburghiana, Roem. & Schult. Syst. I. 123. Tittmannia Colsmanni, 
Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3950. Torenia gracilis, Benth. in “Wall. Cat. 
3952. 
Malacca : Harvey ! Penang : Curtis ! Perak : Ridley ! Scorte- 
chini ! — Distrib. Throughout S.B. Asia. 
11. Scopabia, Linn. 
Undershrubs or herbs with twiggy branches. Leaves opposite or 
whorled, glabrous or pubescent, entire or toothed, punctate. Flowers 
small, white or yellow, axillary, solitary or 2-nate ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 
small, 4-5-partite ; lobes imbricate. Corolla small, rotate, 4-lobed ; 
lobes imbricate, sub-equal, obtuse ; throat densely bearded ; tube very 
short, Stamens 4, sub-equal ; filaments filiform ; anthers sub-sagittate, 
cells diverging or parallel, discrete. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules in each 
cell numerous ; style sub-clavate ; stigma truncate or emarginate. 
Fruit a small, ovoid or globose, septicidal capsule ; valves membranous, 
with indexed margins, separating from the placentiferous septum. 
Seeds many, small, obovoid, angular, scrobiculate. — Distbib. Species 
about 6, all American. 
Scopabia dulcis, Linn. Sp. PI. 116. A glabrous much-branched 
erect or ascending leafy undershrub with a strong perennial woody 
lootstock ; stems 6 in. to 3 ft. high. Leaves opposite or ternate, 
lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, - 5 to 1'5 in. wide, 
serrate, acute or obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole. Flowers many 
minute in terminal panicles ; pedicles slender, strict, - 25 to '4 in. long. 
Sepals 4, oblong. Corolla white, T2 in. in diam., tube very short. 
Stamens sub-equal. Capsule globose, T5 in. in diam. Voigt Hort. 
Suburb. Calcutt. 507 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. X. 431 ; Gaertn. Fruct. I. 
251, t. 53, f. 10; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. II. 699; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. 
IV. 289. 
Penang . Kampai, Batu Gaja, &c., King ! Deschamps ! Curtis ! 
Selangor: Ridley! Perak: Scortechini ! Singapore: Hullett ! 
Kuig! Kings Collector! Deschamps! — Distrib. Everywhere in the 
tropics ; originally American. 
12. Stbiga, Lour. 
Heibs, semiparasitie on roots, usually scabrid, discoloured when dry. 
Leaves opposite below, alternate above, linear, entire or rarely toothed 
sometimes reduced to scales. Flowers axillary, or the upper in 
biacteate spikes ; bracteoles usually 2. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-fid, 5- or 
10- or 15-ribbed, tubular. Corolla 2-lipped ; upper lip inner in bud, 
