Pedicularis.'] ScropkulariacecB. 259 



rounded ; capsule f in., ovoid, valves often split into 2 ; seeds 

 yellow. 



Damp places in the low country of the moist region up to 3000 ft.; 

 rather common ; in the dry region very rare ; Batticaloa (Gardner). Fl. 

 all the year ; white, usually with a large brownish-pink stain on upper 

 side of throat. 



Also in S. India. 



Remarkable for the intensely bright orange-coloured roots. The 

 plant is used as a medicine in fevers, and externally for sore eyes. 

 Linnteus's description of Hermann's specimen is very good, but his name 

 is in Fl. B. Ind. referred to the totally different Geniosporum elo7igaium. 



2. C. hispida, Br. Prodr. 438 (18 10). 

 Thw. Enum. 220. C. P. 2025. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 301. Wall. PI. As. Rar. t. 45. 



Stem erect, 2-3 ft., stout, hispid-hairy, branched above ; 

 1. opp., \-\\ in., oblong, subacute, hispid on both sides ; tl. 

 rather large, sessile, in very lax erect spikes, bracts shorter 

 than cal.; cal. \ in., acute, hairy; cor. f in., lobes rounded ; 

 capsule ovoid, seeds spirally striate. 



Wet places and paddy fields in the moist low countiy to 3000 ft.; 

 rather rare. Kalutara; Hiniduma; Opatte; Hunasgiriya (Gardner). 

 Fl. Dec-March ; pink, tube orange-yellow. 



Also in India, Burma, Java, Philippine Is., China, Australia. 



3. C. humifusa, Wall. Cat. n. -,883 (1828). 

 Thw. Enum. 221. C. P. 2888. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 301. 



Small, usually much branched from the base, branches 

 slender, prostrate or spreading, hispid ; 1. \-\ in., opp. below, 

 alt. above, linear, obtuse, pustular-hispid; fl. small, sessile; 

 cal. \ in., apex obtuse ; cor. \ in. ; capsule globose, tipped with 

 long style. 



Wet places in the low country ; rare. Galle ; Colombo; Kurunegala. 

 Fl. Aug.-Nov. 



Also in India, Malaya, China. 



16. PEDXCUZiARIS, L. 



Annual, 1. alt, fl. in erect racemes, without bractlets; cal. 

 tubular-campanulate, split down one side nearly to base, 

 segm. obscure, leafy, crested ; cor.-tube cylindrical, limb 

 strongly 2-lipped, upper one erect, hooded, compressed, lower 

 large, with 3 spreading lobes ; stam. 4, didynamous, anth. 

 meeting in pairs, cells equal, parallel, all perfect ; stigma 

 capitate; capsule compressed, falcate, loculicidally 2-valved. 

 — Sp. 120; 37 in Fl. B. Ind. (all from Himalayas but the 

 following and one other from Nilgiris). 



