﻿Bopusia.] sceophulaeiacej: (Iliern), 389 



posterior interior. Stamens 4, didynaftioua, shortly included ; 

 filaments filiform, somewhat flattened, pilose at least near the base, 

 insetted below the middle of the corolla-tube; anthers 2-c<--lled, 

 free ; cells diverging, oblong, somewhat carved, mucronulate at the 

 base, one cell usually narrower than the other. Ovary 2-celled, 

 gibbosely round, compressed ; ovules numerous ; style filiform, 

 slender, glabrous, exceeding the stamens, exserted, incurved above, 

 somewhat thickened at the stigmatic short bifid apex. Capsule 

 acute or acuminate, included in the persistent calyx, compressed 

 perpendicular to the septum, loculicidal. Seeds numerous, obovoid- 

 oblong ; testa reticulate. 



Perennial nndershrubs, turning slightly dusky in drying ; rootstock woody ; 

 stems numerous, more or less trailing or erect, leafy, sometimes herbaceous 

 towards the apex ; leaves opposite or alternate, dentate or nearly entire j flowers 

 purple, axillary, subsessile. 



DisTEiB. Species 3, one in Socotra. 



Leaves 3- or 5-nerved at the base, coarsely dentate 



or incise-pinnatifid ... ... ... •••(!) SCaora. 



Leaves without strongly marked lateral nerves at 



the base, subentire (2) subintegra. 



^ I. B. scahrg, (Presl in Abhandl. Bohm. Ges. Wiss. iii. 521); 

 an ascending or erect or sometimes procumbent shrub, perennial, 

 hard, scabrid, more or less pubescent or puberulous, branched chiefly 

 at or near the base, 4-14 in. high; rootstock woody; stems and 

 branches obtusely tetragonoua above, leafy, sabherbaceous or some- 

 what -wiry towards the apex ; leaves opposite, subopposite or 

 scattered, ovate, oval, elliptical or lanceolate, acute, obtusely 

 narrowed or apiculate, more or less wedge-shaped or rarely obtuse 

 at the sessile or subsessile base, rigid, scabrid, usually hispidulous 

 with pallid hairs, 3- or 5-nerved at the base, coarsely dentate or 

 incise-pinnatifid, rarely subentire, green or slightly dusky when 

 dried, i-li in. long, 4o-l in. broad ; teeth acute or pointed ; fiowers 

 in the upper axils and subterminal, subsessile or shortly pedicellate, 

 1-1 in. long; bracteoles 2, opposite, sublanceolate or sublinear, 

 \~\ in. long, inserted at the base of the calyx ; calyx campanulate, 

 deeply 5-cleft, 10-nerved, scabrid, hispid or puberulous especially on 



the nerves, V?- in- long i" A^^^''' ^° ^'"^^ "^ *''• L' "' ^°^ ' ii 

 triangular-lanceolate, acute or pointed, \-l in. long m flower ; corolla- 

 tube ^funnel-shaped, subventricose, sparingly pubescent outside wi h 

 pallid hairs, pmk or peach-coloured; limb spreading, .-1 '"• ^"^ 

 diam.; lobes 5, broadly rounded, i^i in. long; filaments filiform 

 somewhat pilos^ at least towards the base ; anthers f ^^'•«»f' ^^^^'^ 

 apiculate at the ends; ovary somewhat g.bbous; ^^yle fil.forin 

 long, slightly thickened at the short stigmatic apex ; ca^ule at«>ut 

 i in.' long and broad. Presl, Bot. Bernerkn. G^^'-«;/»« ^'^J 

 Linn. / Suppl. 279; T/mnb. Prodv- ^^*l' /^^ /J; ^^'rJ^;^ 

 Schult m ■ Krauss in Flora, 1844, m-not of Walhdu So^ha 

 scabra, G. Don, Gen. Su^t. iv. 560. Melasma Zeyhen, Hook. Ic. 



