Orobanchee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 291 
in Africa. Gerardia, common in India and the Himalayas, belongs also to the Floras 
of Brazil, Mexico, and North America, the Cape of Good Hope, and of China. 
Glossostylis is found in the Malayan Peninsula, Brazil, at the Cape, and in Western 
Africa. 
The Indian species found in other countries are Limnophila gratioloides in New Hol- 
land; MMazus rugosus in Cochin-China; Bonnaya verbenefolia and hyssopioides, with 
Vandellia crustacea, in China; Peplidium humifusum in Egypt; Herpestes Monnieria in 
both tropical Asia and America; also in New Holland; Vandellia diffusa and Torenia 
parviflora in the Indian Peninsula, Mauritius, and Brazil. 
The genera of these tribes, of which species are found in the mountains in the rainy 
season, are Lindenbergia, Stemodia, Mazus, Mimulus, Bonnaya, Torenia, Buchnera, 
Gerardia, Centranthera, and Buddlea. Those of Buddlea form small shrubs, found at 
moderate elevations; B. crispa is highly ornamental ; Centranthera hispida occurs both 
in the mountains and in the plains, flowering in the latter in October, and in the former 
in June; Torenia cordifolia is found in the Circar mountains and at Mussooree ; Buchnera 
orobanchioides has a very wide distribution, being found in the Peninsula and Central 
India, in the north at Suhunsudhara, and in both the eastern and western coasts of 
tropical Africa. 
The Scrophularinee contain, with the exception of the Foxglove, but few useful 
plants. Some others are employed in medicine from their acrid and bitter properties, 
as Gratiola officinalis, some Calceolarias, Veronicas, &c., and Euphrasia officinalis; so, in 
India, the root of Picrerhiza Kurrooa is used in native medicine, as are the leaves of 
Herpestes Monniera ; also Linaria ramosissima, Wall. (v. Ainslie. Mat, Ind. 11. p. 483), 
as L. vulgaris in Europe. The flowers of Buddlea Neemda are delightfully fragrant. 
Picrorhiza Kurrooa. nob.—Bentham, Scrophularinez Indice. p. 47. Veronica? Lindleyana. Wall. 
Cat. n. 404.—Tab. 71. f. 2. (a) A flower; (6) calyx and pistil; (c) corol opened out, with the stamens 
rather too short in proportion; (e) capsule opening; (f) transverse section of the same; (g) a seed 
enclosed in a beautiful net-like transparent membrane. 
Hab. The generic and specific characters of this plant having been already published by Mr. Bentham, 
it is unnecessary to repeat them here. It was procured by Dr.Wallich from Gossainthan and Kemaon, 
and by myself from Kedarkanta and Shalma. The genus is named from the bitter root used in native 
medicine, and for which that of Gentiana Kurroo, Tab. 66, fig. 2, is frequently substituted. 
Pedicularis versicolor. (Wahlenb.—Stev. monogr. 52). Bentham, Scroph. Indice, p. 54.—Tab. 70. 
fig. 2. | : ze | 
“Hab. On Shalma and towards Cashmere. 3 
Gymnandra Cashmeriana. Benth. Scroph. Indicx. p. 47.—Tab. 73. fig. 3. (a) A flower; (6) corol 
opened ; (c) calyx and pistil. 
Hab. Cashmere. 
118. OROBANCHEZ. 
The Orobanche@, a small order of parisitical plants, separated from Scrophularinee, 
are common every where within the limits of the Indian Flora, and though few in 
number, fully bear out the resemblances which we have endeavoured to point out, in 
the Flora of different parts of India to that of other countries. Thus, Orobanche indica, 
most nearly allied to O. Zgyptiaca, is extremely common in the plains of India, espe- 
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