Tee a ee NE rmt 
Veronica. | CHI. SCROPHULARINEX, (J. D. Hooker.) 295 
Poise. Diagn. i. iv. 80, and FI. Orient. l. c.; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vii 
t. 645. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-10,000 ft. WESTERN 
TIBET, alt. 9-15,000 ft.—DrsTRIB. Westward to Asia Minor, Soongaria. 
Annual. Branches slender, 4-18 in., sparsely leafy, running into very loose 
racemes. eaves 3-1 in., very variable in breadth, teeth few and remote. 
Pedicels 1-3 in. Sepals à in., fruiting 1-3 in., spreading. Corolla blue, shorter 
than the calyx. Capsule 1-1 in. diam., much smaller than the calyx, cells 2—4-seeded. 
Seeds oblong, boat-shaped, more or less deeply pitted.— V. campylopoda is only a 
small state with smaller flowers; I cannot distinguish it as a variety even. The seeds 
of V. biloba vary much in depth of pitting. V. microtheca, Boiss. & Bal Diagn. 
Ser. 2, vi. 131, 7. bartsiefolia, and V. elbrusensis, Boiss. Herb., V. Griffithii, Benth. 
in DC. I. c. 485, V. argute-serrata, Regel & Schmalk., and V. cardiocarpa, Walp. 
(Diplophyllum cardiocarpum, Kar. and Kir.), all appear to me to be forms of V. 
iloba. 
**** Capsule laterally flattened, broadly obcordate, keeled. 
T. Seeds elliptic, much flattened, biconvex or plano-convez. 
12. V. laxa, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 45, and in DC. Prodr. x. 474; glabrous 
or sparsely pubescent, stems long ascending, leaves sessile ovate or cordate 
obtuse or subacute coarsely crenate-serrate, racemes axillary peduncled 
slender, capsule broadly obcordate ciliate. V. Thunbergii, A. Gray, Bot. 
Japan. 409. 
Western HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-11,000 ft., Royle, &c.— 
Disrris. Japan. . 
Root perennial. Stems 10-20 in., rather stout, simple, hairy all over or glabrate. 
Leaves 1-2 in., pubescent on both surfaces. Racemes 3-10 in., lax-fld. ; bracts linear- 
oblong, longer or shorter than the pedicels; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Sepals 
unequal, enlarged in fruit. Corolla 1-3 in. diam. Capsule } in. diam., equalling or 
shorter than the sepals. 
13. V. cana, Wall. Cat. 401; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 45, and in DC. Prodr. 
X. 4/5; pubescent villous or glabrate, stems elongate ascending, leaves petioled 
ovate or ovate-cordate obtuse crenate-serrate, racemes axillary and terminal 
peduncled slender, capsule broadly deltoid top 2-lobed. V. scrophularioides, 
all. MSS. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Chumba to Sikkim, alt. 9-13,000 ft.—DISTRIB. 
apan, Formosa. 
Root perennial. Stems 6-12 in., simple, usually slender, pubescent all round, or 
bifariously, or glabrate. Leaves in very few and distant pairs, 1-1} in., pubescent on 
both surfaces or glabrate; petiole 4-ł in. Racemes 2-3 in., lax-fld. ; bracts small, 
linear, shorter than the calyx; pedicels equalling or shorter than the calyx. Sepals 
id in., unequal, linear-oblong. Corolla } iu. diam., blue. Capsule 3-4 in. diam., 
glabrous or ciliate.—The Sikkim specimens are much more glabrous than the Western, 
and smal] specimens have the bifariously pnbescent stems. 
14. V. capitata, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 45, and in DC. Prodr. x. 481; 
pubescent, stems short suberect simple, leaves sessile or shortly petioled 
rounded ovate or shortly oblong obtuse crenate-serrate or subentire, base 
rounded, flowers in terminal sessile villous umbels or heads, capsule broadly 
obcordate, 
ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from Kunawur to Bhotan, alt. 10-14,000 ft. 
. H H H both 
Annual or roots perennial, 3-6 in. high. Leaves }-1 in. , usually pubescent on 
surfaces, uppermost pair often the largest. Flowers sessile in the uppermost pairs of 
