258 ScrOphulariacecB. \Ce7jtrnnthera^ 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect, stiff, simple, slender, furrowed and 

 angular, glabrous or minutely puberulous; 1. sessile, in whorls 

 of 3, about \k in., linear, filiform, very acute, the upper entire,, 

 the lower with 2 long linear-filiform spreading segm., glabrous 

 above, minutely pubescent beneath, fl. 3 in a whorl, on slightly 

 drooping slender ped. rather shorter than 1., bractlets long, 

 linear; cal. glabrous outside, woolly within, segm. ovate, acute, 

 inflexed ; cor. sub-rotate, tube very short, widened at mouth, 

 limb \\ in. diam., lobes rotundate, spreading; stam. exserted 

 and declinate, fil. short, curved; style longer than stam.; 

 capsule enclosed in slightly enlarged cal, notched at the top, 

 tipped with withered style. 



On the patanas of upper montane zone ; common. Fl. all the year ; 

 pale pinkish-yellow, with a purplish eye. 



Also in the mountains of S. India and the Himalaya. 



Every leaf has in its axil a very short leafy branch which remains, 

 undeveloped; hence the 'fascicled' leaves described in Ijooks. 



15. CSMTRANTHERA, i?r. 



Herbs, 1. opp. or alt, sessile, hispid, fl. axillary, with 

 bractlets; cal. split down one side, the segm. combined; 

 cor.-tiibe widely tubular-funnel-shaped, lobes 5, subequal, 

 spreading; stam. 4, didynamous, included, anth. not connate 

 in pairs, cells spurred at base, one sometimes empty ; stigma 

 dilated, acute ; capsule enclosed in cal., ovoid or subglobose„ 

 loculicidally 2-valved ; seeds very numerous, conical, striate. — 

 Sp. 5 ; all in Fl. B. Ind. 



Leaves oblong. 



Cal. \ in. long i. C. procumbens. 



Cal. 4 in. long 2. C. hispida. 



Leaves linear 3. C. humifusa. 



I. C. procumbens, Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 525 (1S46). Dutu- 

 satutu, s. [Plate LXVIIL] 



Herm. Mus. 20. Fl. Zeyl. n. 238. RhinantJms indica, L. Sp. PI. 603. 

 C. Brunofiiana, Thw. Enum. 220 (non Benth.). C. P. 2026. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 301. 



Root thick, much branched, bright orange-red, stems 

 numerous, spreading or erect, 3-18 in., obscurely quadrangular 

 or compressed, hispid, with spreading white hair, often purple; 

 1. |-i in,, oblong, obtuse, rather thick and stiff, sparsely bristly- 

 hairy and ciliate, with large sunk glands, veinless ; fl. rather 

 large, very shortly stalked, solitary, bractlets small, linear; 

 cal. nearly i in., spathaceous and flattened, with 5 slightly 

 winged angles, hispid-hairy, apex acute ; cor, i in., lobe.s 



