SCROPHULARIACE.^ 8/ 



Datura fastuosa Linjt.; F.B.I, iv 242, VII 2. Similar to 

 the last, but flowers larger, usually purple. Calyx up to 

 3 in. Capsule opening irregularly. Wt. Ic. t. 1396. 



Throughout India, a weed of waste places. 



SCROPHULARIACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 299. 



VERBASCUM. f.b.i. 103 n 



Usually very woolly tall herb. Leaves alternate. 

 Flowers yellow in simple or branched spikes. Corolla 

 flat, upper lobes outside in bud. 



Species about 160, in Europe W, & Cent. Asia and N. 

 Africa. 



Verbascum thapsus Linn., Great Moth Mullein, F.B.I. 

 iv 250, II I. A stout erect herb 2 to 4 feet high. Leaves 

 oblong narrowed at the base and decurrent as two wings 

 down the stem. Flowers yellow, in dense woolly spikes. 

 Stamens 5, three yellowish woolly with short one-celled 

 anthers two larger, glabrous and with larger anthers. 

 Capsule globose, t. 440. 



A weed of waste places and gardens, and also in old clearings. 

 On both plateaus. 



Gen. Dist. From Great Britain across Europe and temperate Asia to the 

 Himalaya. Naturalised also in America. 



CALCEOLARIA. 

 Calceolaria mexicana Benth. ; Vol. I p. 299. t. 441. 



TORENIA. F.B.I. 103 XXIII 



Weak glabrous herbs with four-angled stems, oppo- 

 site leaves and terminal or axillary solitary or umbelled 

 flowers ; characterised chiefly by the calyx being winged, 

 and by the upper stamens being very short, the lower 



