Brandisia.] ^ cm. SCROPHULARINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 257 
Puxgas Hinis, near Peshawur, Vicary, Aitchison. WESTERN HIMALAYA and 
WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10-12,000 ft., TAomson.—DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 
Rootstock woody, often with many radical petioled pinnatifid or entire obovate 
or oblong-cordate leaves which are sometimes 5 in. long, and solitary scape-like panicles ; 
thus resembling a Scabiosa. In other specimens the stems are slender, 1-2 feet 
high, and much branched, like those of S. lucida, from which the small flowers about 
Le long, best distinguish it. S. bicolor, of Europe, is very near this.— The 
Beloochistan plant of Stocks referred to it by Boissier may be the same, but it is not 
. ma sufficiently good state for determination. 
TRIBE IV. CHELONEZ. 
8. BRANDISIA, Hook.f. § Thoms. 
Tomentose or scurfy shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers axillary, 
solitary or 2-nate; pedicels 2-bracteolate. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. 
Corolla-tubes incurved, dilated above ; upper lip broad, concave, erect, broadly 
. 2lobed; lower spreading, shortly acutely 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
shorter than the corolla, filaments flattened below; anther-cells divergent, 
margins bearded. Style filiform, stigmasimple. Capsule ovoid, loculicidal, 
many-seeded, valves separating from the columnar placentiferous axis. 
Seeds linear, testa lax membranous reticulated.—Species 2, a Chinese and 
the following. 
The su second species of Brandisia, alluded to in the “ Genera Plantarum ” 
"I native Of Bhotan has stellate tomentum, lanceolate leaves and a 2-lipped calyx, 
_ and cannot be congeneric. It may bea Wightia, but the specimens are far too imperfect 
or determination. The Chinese plant referred to B. discolor by Hance, differs in the 
d calyx-lobes and corolla ; itis B. Hancei, H. f. 
B. discolor, H. > & T. in Journ. Linn. Soc, viii. 11, t. 4; leaves ovate- 
lanceolate finely oumae base rounded or cordate, calyx-teeth subulate. 
urz For, Fl. ii. 250, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1873, ii. 236. 
Prev, MARTABAN, and TENASSERIM, alt. 3-6000 ft., Brandis, Parish, Kurz. 
An evergreen half-scandent shrub. Leaves 2-3 in., firm, glabrous above, wt rai 
or fulvous-tomentose beneath with very prominent nerves, petiole } in. Pedicel , 
ger than the petiole. Calyx } in. long, tomentose, 5-ribbed opposite the teeth. 
Corolla 3 in., dull purplish brown, tomentose. Capsule ovoid, acute, } in. long. 
9. WIGHTIA, Wail. 
A tree. Leaves opposite or alternate, quite entire, very coriaceous. 
Towers in axillary thyrsi, large, rosy, pubescent. Calyx campanulate, 
ularly 3-5-lobed. Corolla-tube incurved, upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower 
oi rading, 3-fid. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, exserted ; ant OR 
NA Sagittate, cells parallel. Style long, tip incurved, stigma simp . 
apsule oblong or ovoid, septicidal, man -seeded, valves long, se : ing 
faoc] the placentiferous axis, which is partite or entire. d A linear, 
albu, 28 nucleus slender, testa membranous broadly wing pika pee 
following °? embryo straight.—Species 3, a Javan, Bornean, 
. , 2703; Benth. 
in Y cigantea, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. i. 71, t. 81, sad pr he specio- 
C. Prodr x. 301; Gamble Cat. Darjeeling Pl. 58 
rima, Dom Prodr 1040 Behe ts DO Prod. si 6. 
| . 104; Schauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 690. . 
CENTRAL AND WESTERS HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, J. D. H., &e. 5 
Bios, AL AND | ' 
| vou, ne. DISTRIB. Java (Herb. Horsfield) i 
