Sibthorpia. ] CHI, SCROPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 289 
Hirsute all over with soft spreading hairs. Stems very slender, 4-8 in. long, 
straggling, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 1-2 in. long, broadly oblong, or ovate, 
membranous, segments 5-7 obovate-cuneate broadly adnate, tips crenate or lobulate ; 
petiole 1-3 in. Pedicels equalling the petiole or longer or shorter, very slender. 
Calyx y in., membranous, lobes ovate acute. Corolla P in. diam, ; lobes spathulate. 
Fruit unknown. 
33. HEMIPHRAGMA, Wail. 
A prostrate diffuse pubescent herb. Leaves dimorphic ; cauline opposite, 
very shortly petioled, orbicular-cordate or -ovate, or reniform crenate ; those 
on the branches fascicled, acicular, ciliate. Flowers axillary, sessile, rosy. 
Sepals 5, narrow. Corolla-tube short, slender ; lobes 5, rounded, spreading, 
subequal. Stamens 4, on the base of the corolla, e ual, filaments short ; 
anthers sagittate, tips of the cells confluent. Style short, stigma minute. 
Fruit ovoid, fleshy, shining, at length septicidal, valves entire or 2-fid. 
Seeds numerous, minute, ovoid, smooth. 
_ H. heterophyllum, Wall. Cat. 3895, and Tent. Fl. Nep. 16, t. 8, and 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 612; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 429. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt, 6-12,000 ft. Kasra 
Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft. . 
Stems loosely tufted, creeping, 1-2 feet, very slender. . «Leaves on the stem 1-3 in 
diam., membranous, hairy on both surfaces ; petiole -4 in.; those on the branches 
forming tufts or heads, ;4-} in. long, rigid, acute, back convex, face deeply channelled. 
Flowers usually sessile in the tufts of the setaceous leaves, rarely of the cauline ones. 
Corolla pink, } in. diam. Fruit black, polished, 4 in. diam. 
34. SCOPARIA, Linn. 
Branched glabrous or pubescent herbs or undershrabs. Leaves opposite 
or whorled, entire or toothed, punctate. Flowers small, white yellow or 
blueish, solitary or 2-nate, axillary, ebracteolate. Sepals 4—5, imbricate 1n 
bud. Corolla rotate, 4-fid, throat densely bearded ; lobes obtuse, subequal. 
Stamens 4, subequal, filaments filiform; anthers subsagittate, cells distinct 
parallel or diverging. Style subclavate, stigma notched or truncate ; ovules 
many. Capsule globose or ovoid, septicidal ; valves entire, membranous, 
margins inflexed separating from the placentiferous axis. Seeds many, 
obovoid, angled, scrobiculate.—Species 5 or 6, all American. 
S. DULCIS, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 431; glabrous, leaves 
lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate narrowed into a short petiole, sepals 4. 
Miquel Fl, Ind. Bat. ii. 699; Gaertn. Fruct. i 251, t. 58, f£. 10; Beauv. FL 
Ow. & Ben. t. 115; Foigt Hort. Sub. Calc. 507. 
PAINS OF BENGAL ; abundant, Clarke.—DisTRIB. Tropics of America and 
sporadically in Africa, Asia and Australia. . . 
ranching annual erect or ascending leafy herb 1-3 ft. high. Leaves opposite 
and 3-nately whorled, variable in width. Flowers numerous ; pedicels 1j in., slender 
Strict, Sepals oblong. Corolla à in. diam., white. Capsule $ in, diam., globose.— 
Though now a superabundant Bengal plant according to Mr. Clarke, it was unknown 
in Roxburgh’s time, and occurs in no Indian Herbarium except Clarke’s. Voigt 
reigns it (1845) as found about Serampore, whence probably it has spread quite 
Tecently, 
35. CAMPYLANTHUS, Roth. 
Shrubs. Leaves alternate, linear, fleshy, quite entire. Flowers in terminal 
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