Centranthera.| CIII. scRoPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 301 
or linear, obtuse, entire or toothed. Flowers axillary or in bracteate spikes 
or racemes, 2-bracteolate. Calyx compressed, spathaceous, split on one 
side; lobes acute or acuminate, cohering or free.  Corolla-tube long, 
incurved, dilated above ; limb oblique; lobes 5, broad, subequal, spreading, 
2 upper inner in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anthers meeting 
in pairs, cells transverse, bases spurred or mucronate, one smaller often 
empty. Stigma dilated, acute. Capsule ovoid or subglobose, loculicidal ; 
valves entire, placentiferous in the middle. Seeds very numerous, oblong- 
cuneate, testa lax, reticulate.— Species 4, Indian, Malayan and Australian. 
l. C. grandiflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 50, and in DC. Prodr. x. 525; 
erect, stout, scabrid, leaves oblong elliptic or narrowly linear, calyx 1 in. 
oblong inflated acuminate, corolla yellow. Wall. Cat. 3880. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., J. D. H.; and KnastA Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft. 
Stem 1-2 ft., branched. Leaves sessile, 1-2 by 2-1 in., rigid. Flowers shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx-segments subulate, cohering. Corolla 14-2 in. long, limb Lin. 
diam. Filaments hairy. Capsule globose. 
2. C. Brunoniana, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 50, and in DC. Prodr. x. 
525; erect, scabridly hispid, leaves linear-oblong, calyx 3 in. oblong-acami- 
nate, corolla yellow. Wall. Cat. 3882. C. hispida, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 254, 
the yellow-fld. plant. 
MARTABAN and TENASSERIM; at Moulmein, Wallich, &c.— DISTRIB. China. 
Stem 12-18 in. Leaves 3-2 in. Flowers shortly pedicelled. Corolla 1 in. long, 
limb 2 in. diam. 
3. C. hispida, Br. Prodr. 438; erect, hispid, hoary, leaves oblong or 
: linear-oblong, calyx 4 in. ovoid acute, corolla purplish. Wall. PI. As. Rar. 
i. 39, t. 45, and Cat. 3881; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 525; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 182; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 707. C. nepalensis, Don Prodr. 
88. Digitalis stricta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 99. Capraria rigida, Hà. Ham. 
Throughout INDIA; from the Punjab, and Kumaon, ascending to 4000 ft., to 
Canara, Bengal, Tenasserim and Burma. CEYLON, ascending to 3000 ft.— DISTRIB. 
Java, China, Philippine Islands, Australia. . . Flo 
Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves very variable, usually 1—1 in., and narrowly linear. wers 
subsessile, Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Filaments woolly. 
4. C. procumbens, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 525; diffusely branched 
from the base, rarely erect, hispid, leaves oblong or linear-oblong, calyx 4 in. 
ovoid-oblong acute, corolla purplish. C. Brunoniana, Thwaites Enum. 220, 
not of Benth. 
Deccan PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, ascending to 
3000 ft. . . 
Root apparently more than annual. Stems rarely simple, erect, 6-10 in., usually 
with straggling branches 4-8 in. long from the root. Leaves j-l by -å in. 
lowers sessile. Corolla 3-1 in.— Possibly a variety of C. hispida, but, the calyx is 
much larger. 
5. C. humifusa, Wall. Cat. 3883; dwarf, diffusely branched from the 
base, glabrous or hispidulons, leaves linear, calyx jin. ovoid subacute, 
corolla yellow. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 525.  Razumovia tranquebarica, 
Spreng: Syst. ii. 812. Torenia lepidota, Roth Nov. Sp. 281. 
BENGALand BEHAR; at Parusnath, Clarke. DECCAN PENINSULA; at Tranquebar. 
