Sopubia.'\ ScrophulariacecB. 257 



Grassy open places on damp sandy soil principally in the dry region ; 

 rather common. Fl. December-May ; white. 



A.lso in India and Java. 



There is a specimen of this not named or numbered in Hermann's 

 Herb., and it may probably be the Ceylon plant intended by Linnaeus as 

 B. asiatica. 



Thwaites distinguishes two varieties here. His var. /3 (our common 

 plant, C. P. 2029) has the caly.x-segments shorter and broader, and much 

 shorter bracts. 



[Buchnera hispida^ Ham., entered in Thw. Enum. 220 on the faith of 

 specimens from Walker in Hb. Hook., appears to have been an error.] 



14. SOPUBIA,* A^a;«. 



Annuals, 1. opp. or whorled, often cut into filiform segm., 

 fl. rather large, solitary, axillary, with bractlets ; cal. tubular- 

 campanulate, segm. 5 ; cor. funnel-shaped or sub-rotate, lobes 5, 

 nearly equal; stam. 4, didynamous, fil. short, curved, anth. 

 connate in pairs, 2-celled, one cell opening by terminal pore, 

 the other minute, stalked, empty; stigma flattened; capsule 

 ovoid or oblong, rounded or notched at summit. — Sp. 8 or 9; 

 3 in Fl. B. hid. 



L. opp., fl. purple I. S. DELPHINIFOLIA. 



L. in whorls of 3 ; fl. pale yellow , . 2. S. trifida. 



1. S. delphinifolia, G. Don, Gen. Hist. iv. 560 (1838). 

 Gerardia delphinifolia, L., Moon Cat. 44. Thw. Enum. 220. C. P. 



2022. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 302. Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 90 (not good). 



Stem 1-3 ft., erect, with numerous long ascending branches, 

 sub-quadrangular, glabrous; 1. opp., 1J-2 in., pinnatisect, the 

 divisions few, distant, filiform, spreading, flexuous, with in- 

 curved edges, the uppermost ones (bracts) simple, long, filiform ; 

 fl. numerous, ped. about half as long as cal., bractlets long, 

 filiform ; cal. glabrous, segm. shorter than tube, linear, acu- 

 minate, very acute; cor.-tube campanulate-funnel-shaped, limb 

 \ in. diam., lobes broad, spreading; capsule longer than cal.- 

 tube, rounded at top. 



Open grassy places in both dry and moist regions, ascending to 4000 

 rft. in the latter; rather common. Fl. Feb., Aug.; rather dull pale purple. 

 Also in Peninsular India, chiefly in the south. 



2. S. trifida, Ham. in Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 88 (1825). 

 Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 522. Thw. Enum. 220. C. P. 525. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv, 302. 



* From the native name in Nepal. 

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