Tas. 8320. 
SCUTELLARIA VIOLACEA. 
India and Ceylon. 
LaBiraATAE, Tribe STACHYDEAR. 
ScurEviaRiA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 1201. 
Scutellaria violacea, Heyne ex Wall. Pl. As. Rar. vol. i. p. 66; Benth. Lab. 
Gen, et Sp. p. 429, et in DO, Prodr. vol. xii. p. 418; Wig/t, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 
vol. iv. t. itt; Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeylan. p. 239; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind: 
vol. iv. p. 668; Trimen, Hand-Book Fl, Ceylon, vol. iii. p. 882; Gard. Chron. 
1904, vol. xxxv. p. 389; species S. discolori, Colebr., affinis, sed foliis 
saepissime ovatis et racemis brevioribus floribus oppositis facile dis- 
tinguenda. 
Herba perennis, e basi ramosa. Cav/es graciles, erecti, usque ad 6 dm. alti, 
puberuli, } arce ramosi, internodiis 3-4-5 em. longis. Fvlia ovata, 4-8 em: 
longa, 3-5 cm. lata, subacuta vel breviter acuminata, basi c.rda'a vel 
rotundata, sat grosse crenata vel interdum serrato-dentata, supra fere 
glaberrima, infra praesertim in venis. primariis puberula, tenuia; petiolus 
gracilis, 3-6 cm. longus, breviter pubescens. tacemi terminales, graciles, 
9-15 cm. longi, multiflori, saepe secundi, rhachide et pedicellis breviter 
glanduloso-pubescentibus. racteae ellipticae, obtusae, pedicelli dimidio 
leviter longiores. Flores solitarii, oppositi, paribus circiter 1 cm. disjunctis. 
Vedicelli 2-8 mm. longi. Ca/y circiter 3 mm. longus, post anthesin valde 
accrescens, glanduloso-pubescens, Jabiis brevissimis latis superioris dorso 
squama lata 1°5-2 mm. longa postice alte concava praedito. Corolla 
circiter 1-8 cm. longa, violacea, labiv inferiori macula alba notato; tubus 
sat tenuis, basi valde curvatus, faucem versus gradatim dilatatus ; labium 
suyerius circiter 5 mm. longum, trilobatum, lobo intermedio maximo 
emarzinato; labium inferius subintegram vel obscuie lobatum, sub- 
orbiculare, 6-8 mm. longum latumque. Stamina infra galeam inclusa; 
antherarum loculi lateraliter breviter ciliati. Discus antice \alde gibbosus, 
snperne parce glandulis sessilibus instructus. Nuculae oboyoideae, minute 
tuberculatae.—S. indica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 45, et Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 24, 
non Linn, 8S. floribunda, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 418.—S. A. S KAN. 
Scutellaria violacea, the species now figured, has been in 
cultivation at Kew since 1900, when plants were raised 
from seeds received from the Botanic Garden at Hakgala, 
Ceylon. The nearest allies in the genus are S. discolor, Colebr., 
also an Indian species, and S. indica, Linn., which, in spite 
of its name, is a Chinese plant. The former is, as a rule, 
readily distinguished from S. violacea by the fact that its 
flowers are almost always scattered on the rachis, whereas 
in all the forms referred to S. violacea they are opposite. 
The latter, which agrees with S. violacea in having opposite 
flowers, appears to be always smaller in stature, in leaves 
and in flowers. In the wide sense in which S. vivlucea is 
taken in the Flora of British India the species extends from 
June, 1910, 
