Adenosma.] Scrophulaviacece . 241 



Throughout India, and in Burma, Afghanistan, and China. 



Verbascum Thapsus, L., the common English Mullein, is thoroughly 

 naturalised about Nuwara EUya, where it is abundant. 



Calceolaria chelidonioides, H. B. K., a delicate flaccid annual, is a 

 very common weed in the higher montane regions ; it is a native of the 

 Mexican mountains. 



\Linaria ramostssivia, Wall., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 251, 

 on the faith of a specimen from Walker in Herb. Kew, which was, no 

 doubt, from N. W. India.] 



[Lindenbergia ur/iccefolia, Lehm., given in Thw. Enum. 218, is not 

 that plant, but Adenosma subrepens, Benth.] 



2. ADENOSMA, Br. 



Annual, 1. opp., sometimes whorled, fl. axillary, racemose 

 or capitulate, bractlets narrow; sep. 5, distinct, upper one 

 largest, enlarged in fruit; cor. 2-lipped, upper lip erect, lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed ; stam. 4, didynamous, included, anth.- 

 ceils distinct, stalked, one usually barren ; style exserted, 

 much dilated and winged below stigma; capsule 4-valved. — 

 Sp. 8 ; all in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fl. racemose or axillary. 



Fl. purple I. A. subrepens. 



Fl. yellow 2. A. camphoratum. 



Fl. in dense terminal heads . . . 3. A. capitatum. 



1. A. subrepens, Benth. ex Fl. B. Ind. iv. 263 (1884). 

 Lindenbergia urticcefolia., Thw. Enum. 218 (non Lehm.). Pterostigma 



subrepens., Thw. Enum. 426. C. P. 3821. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 263. 



Stem decumbent at base and rooting at nodes, ascending, 

 rather stout, quadrangular, villous-hairy ; 1. f-i^ in., broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, very coarsely crenate, slightly villous-hairy, 

 becoming glabrous above, petiole \ in., densely villous ; fl. 

 very shortly stalked, solitary, axillary, bractlets filiform, 

 shorter than sep. ; 3 outer sep. ovate, acute, reticulate-veined, 

 slightly hairy, 2 inner linear-lanceolate, glabrous ; capsule 

 broadly ovate-ovoid, pointed. 



Moist low country; very rare. Hewesse, on borders of paddy fields. 

 Fl. August ; pale bluish-purple. 

 Endemic, 

 Dries blackish. 



2. A. camphoratum, Hk. f., Fl. B. Ind. iv. 264 (1884). ILaba- 

 g-ona-kola, S. 



Herm. Mus. i. Burm. Thes. 157. Fl. Zeyl. n. 412 {Sicechado-menfha). 

 Stemodia camphorata., Vahl, Symb. Bot. ii. 69. .S". lutea, Moon Cat. 45. 

 I'terostigma villosum, Benth., Thw. Enum. 218. C. P. 2041. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 264. 

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