Celsia.] CHI. SCROPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 251 
3. CELSIA, Z. 
Characters of Verbascum, but stamens 4 (see also V. celsioides). 
l. C. coromandeliana, Vahi Symb. iii, 79; finely pubescent or 
tomentose, glandular above, root-leaves petioled 1 rate-pinnatifid, cauline sessile 
oblong-ovate toothed, racemes simple or panicled, sepals entire or toothed. 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 246; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 100; Wall. Cat. 2631; Wight 
Ill. t. 165, bis f. 1, right hand, and 1c. t. 1406; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 176; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 368. C. viscosa, Roth Catal. Bot. ii. 69, and iii. 50; 
Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. (1834) 228, t. 120; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xvii. 81, in part, 
Throughout Ixia; from the Punjab to Ceylon and Pegu, ascending to 5000 ft.— 
Distrein. Affghanistan, Ava, China, . 
Annual. Stem 2.3 ft., stout or slender. Leaves 2-4 in., the large terminal Jobe 
usually oblong, obtuse, toothed. Raceme 1-2 ft.; pedicels 1-j in.; bracts ovate, 
shorter, Sepals oblong or ovate. Corolla 4 in. diam., yellow. Filaments all hairy. 
Capsule subglobosa, 1-4 in. diam. 
4. LINARIA, Juss. 
Herbs. Leaves usually opposite, or whorled below and alternate above. 
Flowers axillary, racemose or spicate, ebracteolate. Sepais 5, imbricate. Corolla- 
spurred in front ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, throat 
usually closed by the tumid fate. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, included ; 
anther-cells distinct, parallel. Style filiform, stigma minute. Capsule ovoid or 
globose, 2-celled, each cell or the anterior only openi by an apical pore. Seeds 
humerous, bolymo hous.—Species 130, almost exclusively natives of the 
temperate regions of the old world. N 
L. striata, DC., a Mediterranean species, has been found in the Khasia Mts. (near 
urra), by Clarke, no doubt an escape. L. triphylla, Mill., a plant of the same 
"gion, also occurs in India according to Bentham (in DC. Prodr. x. 274), but I have 
seen no Specimen, 
. Sepals narrowly lanceolate. 
l. L. ramosissima, Wal. Pl. As. Rar. ii, 43, t. 153, and Cat. 3911 ; 
Perennial, nearly glabrous, branches prostrate slender, leaves alternate petioled 
*vate-cordate, ‘or lower 6-7-lobed triangular-hastate and upper lanceolate 
eate, pedicels capillary longer than the petiole, spur shorter than the corolla- 
qm Seeds scabrous, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 270; Wight Ill. t. 165; Dalz. 
$ Gibs. Bomb. FL 176; Boiss, Fl. Orient. iv. 308. L. Roylei, Chavannes 
Monogr. Antirrh. 112. MES 
Throughout Inpa, on ks and stony places, from the Punjab and Scinde 
Chittagong and Cerion. ascending the hills B 5000 ft. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Ava, 
ranches numerous. filiform, spreading from the rootstock. Leaves mem KEEN 
» my extremely variable. Flowers yellow ; pedicels 1-1 in. Pc porem ual 
ler in. long, spur short, tube hairy, upper lip short. Capsule wi 
passes eds minute, ovoid.— The var. ovata, Heat, with a the leaves o . 
80 insensibly into hat it cannot be retained. 
lo Var. hence H Stor A aed Pe A hairy, corolla rather larger and spur rather 
"E*T.—lhis in hairiness resembles L. cabulica. 1 
rennial, softly hirsute, 
2. L cabuli : 970; 
` ca, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 270; pe bhastate 
‘ranches prostrate slender, leaves alternate petioled lower ovate su 
