A flora of Manila - Rainforestation

SCROPHULARIACEAE 423
Crevices of the old city walls, on old building, etc., fl. all the year;
widely distributed in Luzon. Chittagong, Tenasserim, Burma, China, and
Java.
6. LIMNOPHILA R. Brown
Glabrous or pubescent, aromatic, gland-dotted, usually marsh or water
plants. Leaves opposite or whorled, toothed, cut, or in submerged plants
multifid. Flowers sessile or pedicelled, solitary, racemed, or spicate,
bracteoles present or absent. Sepals narrow, subequal, or the posterior
one larger. Corolla-tube cylindric, the upper lip entire or 2-fid, the lower
spreading, 3-fid. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs, included. Capsule ovoid or oblong,
dehiscent. (Greek "swamp" and "to love," from the habitat of most
species.)
Species about 25, Africa, Asia, through Malaya to Australia and Poly-
nesia, about 8 in the Philippines.
Leaves shortly petioled, narrowed at the base; flowers pedicelled.
1. L. manilensis
Leaves sessile, base broad, somewhat clasping the stem; flowers sessile.
2. L. fragrans
1. L. manilensis Merr.
An erect or spreading, simple or ultimately much branched, more or
less pubescent, aromatic herb, the stems up to 50 cm in length, usually
much shorter. Leaves opposite, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, sessile,
serrulate, acute or obtuse, 1.5 to 3 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary,
shortly pedicelled. Calyx 5 to 6 mm long, somewhat pubescent, the tube
green, the lobes lanceolate, acuminate, purple. Corolla purple, about 9 m
long. Capsule ovoid, 3 to 4 mm long.
In open wet grass lands, La Loma, Caloocan, etc., fl. Dec.-Feb. ; of local
occurrence in the Philippines. Endemic.
2. L. fragrans (Forst. f.) Seem. (L. serrata Gaudich.).
A procumbent or ascending, usually simple, aromatic, glabrous or nearly
glabrous plant, usually less than 20 cm high. Leaves oblong, serrate, 1
to 2 cm long, sessile, the base broad and somewhat clasping the stems.
Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary. Calyx glabrous, the segments lanceo-
late, acuminate. Corolla very pale lilac, about as long as the calyx.
In low wet places, old rice paddies, etc., San Lazaro, Guadalupe, etc.,
fl. Dec-Jan.; of local occurrence in the Philippines. Malay Archipelago
to Polynesia.
7. MAZUS Loureiro
Small herbs, the leaves below opposite or rosulate, above opposite or
alternate. Flowers in terminal racemes, the bracteoles small. Calsrx
campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla-tube short, the upper lip erect, 2-fid, the
lower much larger, spreading, 3-fid, the throat with a 2-lobed palate.
Stamens 4, in 2 pairs. Capsule included in the calyx, globose, loculicidal.
Seeds minute, numerous. (Greek "nipple" from the papillae at the corolla
throat.)
Species about 12, mostly Asiatic, 1 in Australia, the following extending
to the Philippines.
1. IVl. japonicus (Thunb.) O. Kuntze. (M. rugosua hour.)
An annual, erect, glabrous or somewhat hairy herb 6 to 20 cm high.
Basal leaves numerous, crowded, subrosulate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, crcnate,
.