Lysimachia laxa Baudo

Erect herb, sometimes decumbent at the base, to a 0.5 m high; stem angular, often strongly branched. Leaves spirally arranged, lanceolate, acute at both ends, sometimes acuminate at apex, 3-11 by 0.5-2 cm; upper surface often with lax thin hairs, midrib depressed, further venation hardly visible; underside glabrous, midrib prominent, nerves slightly so, ascending, veins invisible; both sides provided with scattered flat brown glands. Petiole 0-1 cm, decurrent along the stem. Flowers axillary, solitary, all along the stem. Pedicels nearly as long as the leaves, obliquely erect. Flowers during anthesis drooping; in fruit erect ascending. Calyx lobes elliptic-obovate, short-acuminate, 4-8 mm; margin sometimes provided with stalked glands. Corolla yellow, deeply cleft, somewhat longer than calyx, 5-10 mm, lobes elliptic-oblong, acute at the apex or rounded. Stamens 2-5 mm; filaments adnate to the corolla only at the base, further connate with each other in a small basal ring (in some Indian specimens the filaments are further free); anthers as long as the filaments incl. the ring, basifixed, oblong, sagittate at the base, opening with lateral slits. Style nearly as high as the corolla. Capsule ex ceeding the calyx, 6-10 mm, 5-valved to the base, often irregularly bursting.

Mixed forests; at elevations from 1,000-2,100 metres. In forests in sunny spots along trails, on volcanic walls, at elevations from 1,000-3,000 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.