Tit. 7705, 
LINDENBERGIA GRANDIFLORA. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHuULARINE#.—Tribe GRATIOLER. 
Genus LinpenBereta, Lehm., (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 948.) 
LinpenBercia grandiflora; herba annua, foliosa, vage ramosa, subscandens, 
molliter villoso-pubescens, ramis flexuosis, foliis amplis 2-8 poll. longis 
floralibus (bracteis) brevioribus oblique ovatis acutis v. acaminatis 
dentatis, petioiis 3-1 poll. longis, floribus in spicas terminates laxifloras— 
elongatas dispositis subsecundis brevissime prdicellatis, calycis cam- 
panulati glanduloso-villosi lobis rotundutis, corolla aurez tubo pollicari 
calyce duplo-triplo longiore piloso, limbi 1 pvil. expans. labio superiore 
brevi rotundato emarginato, inferiore triplo majore 3-lobo, lobis laterali- 
bus oblongo-rotundatis terminali orbiculazi, fauce tumoribus 2 oblongis 
parallelis rubro-puncticulatis instructa, filamentis basi pilusis, ovario 
sericeo-villoso, capsula ovoidea apice exserta. 
L. grandiflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 22; et in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 376. 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iy. p. 261. . 
haere grandiflora, Ham. in Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 89. Wall. Cat. n. 
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Lindenbergia grandiflora is much the handsomest known 
species of the genus, of which there are fourteen described, 
natives chiefly of India, with a few Malayan and tropical 
African. It is a common plant on the foot-hills of the 
Himalaya, from Simla to Bhotan, at elevations of two 
thousand to six thousand feet, and has also been found in 
Pegu. It probably extends further east, but it has not 
hitherto been found in China. 
The specimen here figured was sent by Mrs. Lynch 
from the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, where 
it flowered in a warm house in March of the present year. 
Deser.—A_ villously pubescent, much-branched, sub- 
‘scandent herb, annual, or with stem woody at the base ; 
branches slender, flexuous, leafy, straggling, six to twenty 
inches long. Leaves all opposite, petioled, lower up to eight 
inches long, upper or floral (bracts) much smaller, all 
ovate, acute or acuminate, crenate-serrate, pale green,’ 
nerves six to ten pairs; petiole of lower up to four 
inches long. lowers sub-secund, sub-sessile in the floral 
leaves, in long, loose leafy spikes, sometimes six inches 
Octoser Ist, 1900. 
