SCROPHULARIACEiE. 



eating cells confluent at the apex. Capsule globose, oblong, or 

 linear, 2-valved ; valves entire, membranous. 



1056. V. diffusa Linn. mant. 89. Benih. scroph. bid. 37. — 

 Brazil, Guayana, Isle of France. 



Diffuse, pubescent. Leaves broad-ovate, subsessile. Flowers axil- 

 lary, sessile. Calyx somewhat 5-cleft, twice as short as the oblong 

 capsule. Benth. — Of great value in Guayana as an antibilious emetic 

 and febrifuge, and a most efficacious remedy in malignant fevers and 

 dysentery, especially in cases depending on a disordered state of the 

 liver. Hancock, in Med. Bot. Trans. 1829, p. 9. It is called Haima- 

 rada by the Arowak Indians, and Bitter Blain by the Dutch Creoles. 



1057. Torenia asiatica Linn. The juice of the leaves is con- 

 sidered on the Malabar coast a cure for gonorrhoea. 



PICRORHIZA. 



Calyx leafy, campanulate, almost equally 5-cleft. Corolla 

 campanulate, shorter than the calyx, nearly equally 4-cleft, with 

 the segments entire. Stamens 4, inserted in the throat of the 

 corolla, nearly equal, diverging, projecting some distance. An- 

 thers 2-celled, with the cells confluent at the apex. Valves of 

 the capsule septiferous in the middle, bipartible, with a double 

 dissepiment. Seeds inclosed in a bladdery arillus-like mem- 

 brane. 



1058. P. Kurroa Boyle illustr. p. 291. t. 71. Benth. scroph. 

 ind. 47. — Veronica? Lindleyana Wcdl.cat. No. 404. — Gossain 

 Than, Kamaon and Kedarkonta. 



A fleshy rooted perennial. Stems very short, ascending. Leaves 

 obovate, tapering to the base, serrated, smooth or nearly so, scape 

 erect, naked. Flowers sessile, deep blue, in dense spikes. — The root 

 is intensely bitter, and used in the native medicine of India. 



EUPHRASIA. 



Calyx campanulate, 4-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla galeate. 

 emarginate, lower larger, spreading, with the middle lobe eraar- 

 ginate. Stamens 4, fertile ; lower cells of the upper anthers 

 with a long spur. Capsule oblong-ovate, compressed, emar- 

 ginate, with entire valves. Seeds few in number, with a some- 

 what striated membranous skin. 



1059. E. officinalis Linn. sp. pi. 841. Eng. Bot. t. 1416. 

 Smith Eng. Fl. iii. 122. Benth. scroph. ind. 51. — Heaths 

 and pastures of Europe, the Himalaya mountains, Cachmere, and 

 all the north of Asia. (Eyebright.) 



An elegant little plant, varying in height from 1 inch to 4 or 5, 

 with a square, downy, leafy stem, either simple or branched. Leaves 

 i or i an inch long, almost entirely opposite, ovate or heart-shaped, 

 downy, strongly ribbed and furrowed, with sharp tooth-like serratures. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, very abundant, inodorous, but remarkable for 



