Veronica. ] CIII. SCROPHULARINEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 297 
Perennial. Branches 3-10 in., ascending. Leaves j-3 in., rather coriaceous. 
Racemes 1-4 in.; lower bracts leaf-like, upper narrow. ‘Sepals 4-4 in. obovate- 
oblong, ciliate, shorter than the corolla. Corolla 1 in. diam., white or lilac. 
Trine VIII. GBRARDIEZX. 
40. ALECTRA, Thunb. 
Erect, rigid, usually scabrid herbs, black when dry. Leaves opposite or 
the upper (rarely all) alternate, toothed (reduced to scales in A. Thomsoni). 
Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes, solitary in the axils of bracts, 
2-bracteolate, upper crowded, yellow, or streaked with red or brown. Calyx 
campanulate, subfoliaceous, 5-toothed or -fid, lobes valvate or open in bud. 
Corolla-tube broad; limb oblique; lobes 5, spreading, the lower outer in 
bud. Stamens 4, didynamous ; anthers touching in pairs, naked or bearded, 
cells parallel, bases mucronate. Sty/e long, inflexed, stigma elongate tongue- 
shaped. Capsule subglobose, loculicidal, valves entire or 2-fid. Seeds very 
numerous, minute, linear, testa very lax reticulate, nucleus small.— Species 
14, tropical American, African and Indian. 
l. A. indica, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 339; scaberulous, leaves sessile 
or shortly petioled ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate coarsely toothed base 
cuneate rarely cordate, bracts longer than the sessile flowers. A. cordata, 
Benth. in DC. I. c. (the Himalayan specimen). Hymenospermum denta- 
tam, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3963. Glossostyles arvensis, Benth. Scroph. 
nd. 49. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 3-9000 ft. KuasrA MTs., 
alt. 4-6000 ft. BEHAR; top of Parusuath, Anderson, &c. Ava, Wallich. —DISTRIB. 
auritius. 
Stem 6-18 in., naked below, simple, or branched above. Leaves 3-13 in., sparingly 
coarsely toothed. Spikes pubescent, 3-6 in.; flowers crowded; bracteoles ciliate. 
Calyx 4 in, long. Corolla + in. long, yellow, lobes rounded subequal. Filaments 
ciliate; anthers yellow. Capsule shorter than the calyx, subglobose, 4-lobed. Seeds 
linear, nucleus very small in the centre of the transparent sausage-shaped testa. 
2. AL? Thomsoni, Hook. f.; slender, leaves scale-like, flowers race- 
mose, bracts minute. 
BEHAR; on Parusnath, alt. 3000 ft., parasitic on a Strobilanthes, Thomson. n 
À very singular plant, resembling the S. African 4. orobanchoides, Benth. Stem rigid 
but flexuous, 6-15 in. high, simple or branched at the rootstock, hardly scaberulous. 
eaves represented by a few scattered scales ;)—} in. long, the largest oblong, obtuse. 
acemes 6-10 in., lax-fld. ; bracts minute ; pedicels 3-4 in., slender. Calyx, fruiting 
hemispheric, 1 in. diam. ; lobes broadly triangular. Capsule globose, as long as the 
Calyx. Seeds as in A, indica, but more minute and elongate-cuneiform. 
41. BUCHNERA, Linz. 
Rigid annual herbs, black when dry. Leaves, lower opposite, broad; 
Upper alternate, narrow. Flowers sessile, axillary, or in bracteate spikes, 
2-bracteolate. Calyx tubular, 10-nerved, sometimes 5-ribbed, 5-toothed. 
orolla-tube slender; lobes 5, flat, subequal, spreading, 2 upper inner in 
bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers 1-celled, vertical, dorsi- 
fixed, bases obtuse, connective sometimes mucronate. Style thickened or 
clavate above, stigma entire or notched. Capsule oblong, loculicidal ; 
Valves coriaceous, entire, septiferous, separating from the placentas. | Seeds 
