Micrargeria.] cm. SoROPHULARINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 
46. MICRARGERIA, Benth. 
Rigid, scabrid, erect herbs, black when dry. Leaves alternate, or the 
lower opposite, linear, entire or 3-multifid. "Flowers small in the upper 
axils, or in long terminal spikes, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Calyr cam- 
panulate or hemispheric; teeth 5, broad.  Corolla-tube exserted, dilated 
above, often incurved ; lobes 5, broad, spreading, entire, subequal, 2 upper 
inner in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers free, meeting in 
pairs, cells distinct subequal attached by their tips, base obtuse. Stigma 
thickened, obtuse. Capsule small, globose, loculi- and septi-cidal; valves 4, 
separating from 2 small globose placentas. Seeds numerous, oblong-cuneate, 
testa lax.—Species 2, a W. African and Indian. 
M. Wightii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 509; lower leaves pinnatisect, 
segments few filiform. Wight Ic. t. 1417. 
SovrTH DECCAN PENINSULA; Wight, &c. 
Annual, 8-18 in. high. Stem naked below, fastigiately branched above ; branches 
long, slender, erect. Leaves 4 in., in scattered fascicles, cut into almost filiform 
spreading segments i—i in. long; upper filiform, entire. Spikes very long and 
slender; flowers distant, subsessile; bracts filiform, longer than the calyx ; bracteoles 
linear. Calyx in., hemispheric ; teeth triangular. Corolla-tube 4 in. long, incurved, 
pubescent, limb as broad. Capsule 4 in. diam. enclosed in the calyx. 
47. LEPTORHABDOS, Schrenk. 
Erect, annual, glabrous or glandular-pubescent, twiggy herbs. Stem 
4-angled. Leaves opposite below, alternate above, linear, entire or laciniate 
or pinnatisect, upper smaller. Flowers small, axillary, and in interrupted 
very slender racemes, bracteate, ebracteolate. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 
5-toothed or -fid. Corolla-tube short; lobes 5, subequal, spreading, broad, 
entire or notched, 2 upper inner in bud. Stamens 4, didynamons, shorter 
than the corolla; anthers free, cells parallel equal not spurred. Stigma 
shortly dilated, obtuse; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule compressed above 
at right angles to the septum, obtuse, loculicidal ; valves entire, septiferous. 
Seeds 1-2 in each cell, laterally attached, oblong or angled, rugose.— 
Species 4 or 5, Central Asiatic and N. Indian. 
l. L. Benthamiana, Walp. Rep. iii. 387; glabrous, inflorescence 
glandular-puberulous, leaves pinnatisect, segments linear or filiform, calyx- 
lobes ovate-lanceolate. L. virgata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 510; Boiss. F [. 
Orient. iv. 470. L. parviflora, Benth. l. c. Gerardia parviflora, Wall. Cat. 
PE Benth. Scroph. Ind. 48. Dargeria pinnatifida, Dene. in Jacq. Voy. 
ot. 116. 
TE MALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-11,000 ft., 
aleoner, Ren VETERA Timer ; Dras, alt. 10,000 ft, Zhomson.— DISTRIB. 
Affghani i 
"Stem 1-9 à "slender or rather stout, naked below, simple or fastigiately branched 
above ; branches strict, erect, very slender. Leaves 1-3 in., sometimes cut to the 
base into subequal filiform segments, in others ovate or lanceolate and regularly pin- 
hatisect ; segments linear and entire or subpinnatifid. Racemes very slender, very 
Many-fld. ; pedicels ;-4 in. ; bracts linear, longer or shorter than the pedicels. Ca ve 
3 in.; lobes lanceolate or triangular-ovate, acute, 5-ribbed in fruit. Corolla varia e 
Ih size, about twice as long as the calyx ; limb 2 in. diam. Capsule 3 in., as ong as 
the calyx.—I can find no difference between the authentically named specimens of L. 
