854. Solanum trilobatum. (Linn.) frutescent,
soandent, prickly ; prickles hooked: leaves pandurifornily
3 lobed, or 3 lobed obtuse, glabrous and are, as well as the
petioles and peduncles, prickly : racemes subumbellate
terminal and lateral: corollas deeply 5 clift. Don. gard.
diet. 4, p. 437. .
A common plant found creeping on the ground or
climbing among hedges and bushes. The color of the
flower varies from white to purplish the berries red.
855. Striga euphrasiodes. (Benth. Buchneva evph-
rasioides Vahl.Benth.) nearly glabrous, rough, leaves linear
obloo<*: calyx oblong, marked with about 15 stride tube
of the corella pubescent. Benth. Scrof. Ind. p. 41.
This plant is common in wet pasture land. Since the
publication of his synopsis of Indian Scrofularinoe Mr.
Bentham has revised his previous labours in this family
and has separated the Indian species of Buchneva, from
the Cape ones, under the generic name of Stviga, mainly
on account of the very different form of the corolla-
being straight salver-shaped in Buchneva and abruptly
bent in Stviga. This therefore being a true Stviga I have
adopted the name and quote that on the plate as a
synonym, without, however, approving of the principle
and still less the practice of constructing genera based on
such slender points of difference. So far as I can judge
from a perusal of the generic character, I should suppose
that a subgenus would have amply sufficed, thereby avoiding
the injury to the science arising from breaking down
good natural gen,era and unnecessarily adding to the already
too long list of synonyms under which Botany
groans.
856. Sutera glandulosa. (Roxb. Benth.) diffuse,
clothed with glandular hairs, viscid, segments of the pin-
natified leaves c u t; the upper ones, with the racimes of
flowers, alternate : sepals obtuse.—Bent ham’s Synopsis,
p. 42.
’ Thie drawing was not made under my direction and the
analysis are less perfect than I could have wished. The
plants forming this genus are low diffuse herbs with opposite
pinnatified leaves, pedicelled axillary, solitary, or
860. L imnophila polystachya. (Benth.) leaves
emersed ternnately whorled, 3 nerved : racemes branched,
slender many flowered: flowers small sessile. Benth.
Synop. Scvopularince Indicts, p. 27.
Not unfrequent in rice fields and other flooded grounds
in the Tanjore district and indeed in most parts of Coromandel.
occasionally, racemose flowers.
857. Bonnaya Hissopioides. (Benth.) stem elongated
lax : leaves oblong lanceolate, remote : pedicels axillary
elongated, filiform corolla three or four times longer than
the calyx. Benth. Synop.p. 34.
This is a common plant on the banks of paddy fields
and in wet pasture every where during the rainy season.
858. Bonnaya minima ? (G. Don. Gvatiola minima.
Roth.) stem filiform erect simple : leaves oblong, sessile,
remote, serrulated and are, as well as the calycine segments,
ciliated on the margin : capsule oblong, rather
longer than the pedicels. Don. gard. diet. 4, p. 538.
This very minute species is found in paddy fields, but
to the best of my recollection is of rare occurrence. The
flowers are pale yellow. I am uncertain whether this
is Roth’s plant, but I think it corresponds well with the
character and, like it, only attains the height of about 3
If inches.
859. Dopatrium lobelioides. (Benth. Gvatiola lobe-
lioides Roxb.) stem elongated, sparingly branched: leaves
of the stem minute,obtuse: capsules globose : corolla nearly
five times the length of the calyx. Benth. Synop. p. 31.
Frequent in rice fields growing in water, flowers usually
pale blue, longish pedicelled ; racimes on the ends of
the branches. The draftsman from not understanding^,
has not clearly shown the structure of the capsule which
is four valved. This however is unquestionably Mr.
Bentham’s plant. _
Figure 4 is a detached antherconsiderably magnified.
Flowers small white.
861. Limnophilla racemosa (Benth. Cyrilla aqua-
tica Roxb.) leaves emersed opposite or subverticefled,
three nerved, entire, or the lower ones divided : racemes
dense many flowered; flowers pedicelled and like the membranaceous
calyx smooth. Benth. Synop. Scroph. Ind. 26.
A native of flooded ground such as rice fields the flowers
are purplish, possessing considerable fragrance.
862. T orbnia asiatica. (Linn.) leaves ovate or ovate
lanceolate: peduncles axillary fascicled: calyx oblong, contracted
at the base, about half the length of the corolla.
Benth. Synop. Scroph. Ind. p. 38.
An alpine or subalpine plant very widely diffused in
alpine regions. The specimen selected by the draftsman
for the illustration of this species is not so favourable
a one as might have been. The plant itself has little
beauty, except when forming a compact tuft with a number
of open blossoms when it Jdoes become one strikingly
so, owing to the deep rich purple of its flowers.
863. Yandelia Crustacea. (Benth. Gvatiola lucida,.
Roxb.) diffuse, glabrous: leaves ovate : peduncles axillary
or subracimose two or three times longer than the calyx :
calyx before expansion 5 toothed, afterwards 5 parted, exceeding
the ovate capsules. Benth. Synop. Scroph. Ind. 35..
A very widely distributed' plant and well represented in
this figure.
864. Anisomeles malabarica. (Brown. Benth.) tomen-
tosely villous : leaves oblong lanceolate narrowing at the
base: verticillasters mauy flowered, dense, or at length
elongating into large cymes; floral leaves, bracts, and
subulate teeth of the calyx very soft. Benth. Lab. p. 704.
Frequent in many parts of the Carnatic, but has an extensive
range, being also found in Burniah, the Mauritius,.
Penang, Java, China, &&■
865. Anisomeles ovata. (R. Brown.—Benth.) hairy
or subglabrous: leaves ovate or roundish, acuminated,
rounded, or truncately subcordate,at the base; verticillasters
dense, many flowered, teeth of the calyx lanceolate
acute. Benth. 1. c. p. 702.
A common plant not very ornamental and with as wide
a geographical range as the preceding.
8 6 6 . Leucas b if lo r a . (Brown. Benth.) herbaceous
diffuse : leaves ovate, coarsely dentate, pubescent on both
sides: verticillasters two flowered; bracteas minute : calyx
tubular, mouth equal, teeth subulate. Benth. 1. c. p. 610.
A low growing plant, common in arid jungles, very
polymorphous in its general appearance. The form here
represented is not the most common, but being suitable
for the size of the plates was taken. I have seen plants
three or four feet long, usually lying on the ground, but
sometimes climbing to that height among bushes.
867* L eonotis nepetiofolia. (R. Brown—Benth.)her-
baceous : leaves ovate crenate : all the teeth of the calyx
spinous, the upper one larger ovate : corolla (red) about
twice the length of the calyx. Benth. 1. c. p. 618.
This very conspicuous plant, owing to its large redish
orange coloured flowers, is usually found growing among
rubbish and in neglected places, flowering at all seasons.
It is widely distributed over the world, being found in the
tropical parts of Asia, Africa, America, and New Holland.