Antirrhinum.] cni, SCROPHULARINER. (J. D. Hooker.) 253 
6. AN TIRRHINUM, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire or lobed, lower opposite, upper 
alternate. Flowers solitary and axillary or racemed. Sepals 5, imbricate. 
Corolla compressed, base saccate ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed; lower spreading, 
lobed ; palate broad, bearded, closing the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous; 
anther-cells distinct, parallel. Style filiform, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid or 
globose ; cells many-seeded, anterior opening by one pore, posterior by 2 toothed 
Pores, or both opening by one pore. Seeds minute, oblong, truncate, rugose or 
pitted. —Species 25, of northern temperate regions. 
The common Snapdragon ( A. majus, L.) is stated (Benth, in DC. Prodr. x. 291) 
to be subspontaneous in India, but I have seen no specimens. 
, 1. A. Orontium, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 290; annual or 
biennial, slender, erect, leaves linear, flowers axillary subsessile, sepals longer 
than the corolla. Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 885. A. gibbosum, Wali. Pl. As. Rar. 
ll. 44, and Cat. 3854. 
,PuwiaB Prais and Western HIMALAYA, ascending to 4000 ft. (an escape in the 
Nilgherries).—Disrrin, Westwards to N. Africa and Britain. 
Annual or biennial. 
Stem 6-18 in., usually glabrous below and glandular above, branched from the 
- Leaves 1-2 in., very narrow, rarely oblong-lanceolate. Flowers j-$ in., rose- 
Purple. Sepals very narrow, spreading. Capsule | in., pubescent. Seeds com- 
Pressed, face concave, back keeled, margins thickened. 
7. SCROPHULARIA, Z. 
Annual or perennial, often foetid herbs. Leaves opposite or the upper 
alternate, often pellucidly dotted. Flowers in icled or thyrsoid cymes, 
Prenish-purple or yellow. Sepals 5, — Corolla-t globose or ovoid, tumid ; 
obes 5, short, flat; 4 upper erect, lower spreading. Stamens 4, declinate, 
didynamous, 5th rudimentary or 0; anther-cells adnate to the filament, con- 
fl ent, bursting transversely. Dise oblique. Style slender, stigma notched. 
| ovoid, acute or beaked, septicidal. Seeds many or few, ovoid, more or 
“SS rugose, —Species about 120, of. northern temperate regions. 
* Cymes c ntracted, dense Uj Ua-lobes short, subequal. Stamens 
MM o , -fld. Upper corolla-lobes short, 7 
ded. Leaves broad, ncm ovate or ovate-cordate, petiole not appendaged, 
3 distinct, 
|. S. pa - Scroph. Ind. 17, andin DC. Prodr. x. 302; 
glabrous or sparsely. Pübeccrnt, pm long-petioled ovate-cordate coarsely 
the thed, flowers crowded ir distant leafless cymes, sepals ovate acute shorter 
van the capsule, stamens included, staminode 0. 
J. i "a AND Eastern Hrwataya; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 10—13,000 ft., 
: 4H, &e 
Stem 2-3 f stout, sparin —4 in. primary and seco 
: -, Stout, s agly branched. Leaves 2-4 in., primary 
be distinct ; petiole 2 in Inflorescence 2-8 in. long, stiff; cymes Mr , 
ortly Peduncled ; pedicels 3 in. and less, Corolla green. Capsule 3-3 in. long, 
Void, acute, Seeds oblong. 
2. S. cal nd in DG Prodr. x. 304; 
* calycina, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 18, and im 
ga brous or sparsely pubescent above, leaves shortly petioled ww passi 
Me acute coarsely toothed, flowers crowded in approximate leatless cymes, 
