Veronica. | CII]. SCROPHULARINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 293 
Bentham describes the fruit of the latter as obovate emarginate, but in Kirghis 
specimens it is oblong and notched at the top. 
POOLS w. lanuginosa, Benth. mss.; densely woolly, stems very short, leaves 
sessile imbricate orbicular or upper broadly ovate quite entire, flowers in 
sessile terminal woolly heads, sepals 4 oblong subacute, corolla-lobes spathu- 
late upper orbicular much larger and broader than the others, capsule 
elliptic notched. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Samdong, alt. 16,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Stem simple, 2-3 in. high, clothed with imbricating leaves and woolly hairs. 
Leaves j in. diam., equally woolly on both surfaces. Flowers small amongst the 
upper bracteal leaves. Sepals 4 in.long. Corolla 4 in. diam. Capsule equalling 
the sepals, pubescent. Seeds few, large, oblong, plano-convex.—A very singular 
species. 
** Capsule somewhat compressed laterally, turgid, orbicular, rarely in 
V. Anagallis broadly ovate. Seeds biconvex. 
6. V. Anagallis, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 467: glabrous, 
rarely pubescent, erect, succulent, leaves sessile or lowest petioled oblong 
oblong-lanceolate or linear-oblong entire or serrate base usually cordate, 
racemes long axillary, pedicels spreading. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1762; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 437. V. undulata, Wall. Cat. 406, and in Roxb. Fl. 
Ind. ed. Carey & Wall.i. 147. Veronica sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 126, and Te. 
Pl. Asiat. t. 419, f. 2. 
N.W. INDIA; from the plains of the Punjab to Western Tibet, and from Kashmir 
to Bhotan, ascending to 9000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 15,000 in Tibet. BENGAL, the 
Knasra Mts. and Assam. The DECCAN PENINSULA, in the Concan only.—DisTR15. 
Europe, Asia, N. and S. Africa, N. America. . . 
Perennial. Stem creeping below, from 6-18 in. high, and from the thickness of a 
sparrow’s quill to that of the middle finger. Leaves 2-6 by 3—4 in. (13 in. broad and 
ovate-cordate in a Kunawur specimen). Racemes 3-6 in., slender, lax-fld.; bracts 
linear-oblong, shorter than the pedicels, which are usually longer than the calyx. 
Sepals 4,— in. long, subacute. Corolla 3-4 in. diam., pink or purplish. Capsule 
i in. diam., broadly ovate in some Tibetan specimens. Seeds ovoid or oblong, 
iconvex, . 
VAR. oxycarpa; capsules subacute longer than the sepals. V. oxycarpa, Boiss. 
Fl. Orient. iv. 438.— Kunawur, alt. 9000 ft., Thomson. Persia, Atfghanistan. . 
VAR. punctata ; dwarf, leaves all petioled ovate serrate or the upper only linear- 
oblong sessile amplexicaul. V. punctata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 93; Benth. in Dc. 
Prodr, x, 468, in part.—Nepal, Hamilton ; Bengal at Beauleah and Malda, Clarke. 
Benares, Wall. I think there is no doubt of this being a form of V. Anagallis, 
ssam specimens of which and others have similar lower leaves. The Cabul punctata 
of Bentham is, as Doissier has pointed out, nothing but F. Anagallis ; and his var. 8 
extensa is a luxuriant state of the same with larger bracts, sepals, Ke. . 
Var. montioides, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 497; dwarf, slender, stems often simple, 
leaves ovate or oblong, racemes few few-fld. V. pusilla, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 
468 —Western Tibet, Thomson. Affghanistan. The Herbarium specimens seem to be 
partly dwarf forms and partly seedlings of V. Anagallis. 
l. V. Linn. ; Beuth in DC. Prodr. x. 468 ; glabrous or 
Puberoloua dese len succulent, leaves sessile or shortly petioled elliptic 
or oblong obtuse crenate-serrate base rounded, racemes axillary fem- Ni 
many-flowered, pedicels spreading. Reichd. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1701; : 
XM Aitchison, to Kuhawur, 
Y ; ir and Rawul Pindee, Aitchison, t 1 
Thomson. Waar fm 912,000 f, Thomson. —DISTRIB. Affghanistan to 
Europe, N. Africa (Abyssinia), N. Asia to Japan. 
