Sojjulia.] 



LXXXIII. SCROFHULARIXE/E, 513 



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divided, opposite or the upper ones alternate— Flowers yellow purple or 

 pmk, in terminal racemes or spikes, with a pair of bracteoles on the pedicel. 



A small genus, dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. The only Australian species is 

 one of the Asiatic ones. The species are probably all parasitical. 



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1. S, trifida, Hamilt. i Benth, hi DO, Prod, x. 522. An erect rigid 

 scabrous slightly branclied annual of 1 to 3 ft. Leaves narrow linear, the 

 lower ones on the main stem often 3-fid, tlie upper ones and those of the side 

 branches entire, I to 1 in. long with smaller ones often clustered ia the axils, 

 the upper ones alternate. Flowers usually distant, forming a very loose ter- 

 nnnal leafy raceme. Pedicels at first short, at length | in. long. ' Bracteoles 

 linear, close under the calyx. Calyx 2 to 2\ lines -long, with triangular 

 «ciite lobes as long as the tube, woolly inside. CorolIaVith a very short 

 tube, almost rotate, about \ in. diameter, yellow with a purple centre or all 

 purple. Capsule truncate, as long as the calyx. 



Queensland ? lu Lcichhardt's collection without the pi-ecise station {Herb. F. MueUer). 

 ihe species has a wide range ia tlie hilly districts of India, extending to Cevlon, and (in a 

 Siight variety) to Madagascar. 



25. CENTRANTHEEA, E. Br. 



Calyx compressed, obliquely acute, split down the lower edge, entire or 2- 

 lo 5 -toothed at the top. Corolla with a curved tube dilated upwards, the 

 limb spreading, with. 5 broad lobes nearly equal or obscurely 2-lipped. Sta- 

 uiens 4, included in the tube; anthers in pairs, the cells transverse, with an 

 awn-like point at the end, one cell usually smaller than the other or empty. 

 Style with a lanceolate flattened stigmatic end. Capsule obtuse, opening 

 loculicidally in 2 entire valves. Seeds miiuite, testa loose, reticulate; albu- 

 men scanty. — Scabrous herbs. Leaves opposite or the upper ones alternate, 



■^lowers almost sessile, axillary or in interi'upted terminal spikes with small 

 bracteoles. 



The genus consists of a ^^\\ tropical Asiatic species, including the only Australian one, 

 i^bey are probably several of them if not all parasites. 



1- C. hispida, R. Bi\ Prod. 438. A stiff erect annual, simple or with 

 spreading brandies, 6 in. to 1 ft. high or rarely more, very scabrous with 

 luinute hairs or tubercles. Leaves mostly linear, entire, the longer ones 1 to 

 H in. long, the upper ones much smaller. Flowers nearly sessile in the 

 ^Pper axils, alternate and distant. Cal^^x herbaceous, 3 to 4 lines long. 

 Corolla f to 1 in. long, variously said to be pink purple or yellow. One 

 *^ell of eacli anther much narrower tlian the other, with a lonij point. Cap- 

 sule OYoid-globose.— Wall. PL As. Ear. t. 45 ; Benth. in DC.^ Prod. x. 525. 



W, Australia. Alluvial flats near Fish river, Glenelg district, N,"W. coast, Marten; 

 nctoria river and moist grassy flats, Aniliem's Land, T. Mueller. 

 Queensland. Endeavour river. Banks and Solander ; Brisbane river, ^foreton Bav 



■itt ^^^' ^'^*^^^^™P^ou and Kockinghara 'B^iy^Ballachf/. 

 W. S. ^iTales. Kichmond river, Beckler. 



The species is widely distributed over tropical Asia, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the 

 •Archipelago and northward to the Himalaya and S. China. 



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