Gratiola.| SCROPHULARIACEAR, 773 
4. GRATIOLA Linn. 17 2 7 
Herbs, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Leaves opposite, entire or 
toothed. Flowers axillary and solitary, 2-bracteolate. Calyx deeply 
5-partite ; segments nearly equal. Corolla-tube cylindric ; lips spreading, 
upper entire or 2-fid, lower 3-fid. Perfect stamens 2, included; anther- 
cells distinct, parallel; staminodia or barren stamens 2, filiform, sometimes 
wanting. Style filiform; stigma dilated and deflexed, entire or 2-lamellate. 
Capsule ovoid, loculicidally or septicidally dehiscent, 4-valved, valves 
separating prone a columnar placentiferous axis. Saads numerous, small, 
reticulate. See Kerk. Taans- 3:17) + FES - 
A genus consisting of about 25 species, scattered over the temperate and sub- 
tropical portions of both hemispheres. One of the New Zealand species has a wide 
range in Australia and extra-tropical South America: the other extends to Victoria 
and Tasmania alone. 
Suberect, usually glabrous. Leaves }—3 in. long oA -- IL. G. peruviana. 
Procumbent, usually glandular-pilose. Leaves 1-lin. .. -. 2. G. nana 
senderrta A - Con res e 
1. G peruviana Linn. Sp. Plant. (1753) 17.—Stems stout, glabrous or 
slightly viscid-pubescent, laxly branched, ascending er suberect from a 
decumbent or almost prostate base, 3-12 in. high. Tieavee opposite, sessile, 
4-7 in. long, ovate or ovate- lanceolate or oblong, distantly and sqmetimes 
obscurely serrate, usually 3-nerved. Flowers in the axils of the leaves ; 
peduncles very short, sometimes almost wanting. Calyx-segments lanceo- 
late, acuminate. Corolla 4-$in. long, white or yellowish- white with a 
vellow throat, the lips broad, much shorter than the tube. Anthers 
connivent ; cells ASSESS, parallel. Staminodia filiform, elongated. 
Capsule ovoid- globose, in. long, membranous.—Benth. Fl. Austral. iv 
(1869) 493 ; Cheesem. Man, N.Z. Fl. (1906) 486. G. sexdentata A. Ounn. 
Precur. (1838) n. 383; Raoul Choi (1846) 43; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i 
(1853) 189; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 203. G. latifelia R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 
435; 2. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iii (1871) 165. G. glandulifera Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 245. 
Norra Istanp : Common in lowland swamps throughout. SourH Isnanp: Nelson 
—Buller Valley, Charleston, W. Townson! near Ashburton, H. H. Allan ! Otazo— 
Lake Te Anau, Petrie; Lake Haurcko, Crosby Smath. Sea-level to 1500 ft. 
November—February. 
Also common in Australia and Tasmania, and in many parts of extra-tropical South 
America. 
2. G nana Benth. in DC. Prodr. x (1846) 404.—Stems procumbent or 
creeping, much branched, often inated, 2-8 1n. long, usually more or less 
clcthed with jointed glandular hairs, but sometimes almost glabrous ; 
branches ascending at the tips. Leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, 
¢-z1n. long, broad or narrow-oblong or obovate, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed at the base, obtusely toothed, glabrous or glandular-pilose. 
Flowers few, on short pocuncles: Calyx elandular- -pilose ; segments 
often toothed. Corolla din. long, white or white with pinkish veins, 
throat yellow; lobes short, rounded. Anthers connivent; cells trans- 
verse, parallel. Staminodia filiform, elongated. Capsule broadly ovoid. 
—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 203 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. iv (1869) (498 ; 
