SCROPHULARIACE^. 3OI 



J^ inch. Corolla J^ inch, pale blue. Capsule hardly 

 longer than the sepals, obovoid. 



Nilgiris : Pykara in wet places. 



Gen. Dist. Deccan, Ceylon, lower hills of India, China. 



DIGITALIS. 103 XXXIV. 



Foxglove, 



Species about 18 in Europe and western and 

 middle Asia. 



Digitalis purpurea Linn. ; XXXIV ^ i ; common 



Foxglove. Stem in flower 2 to 5 feet, erect usually 



unbranched. Leaves mostly at the base, elliptic ovate, 



narrowed to the winged stalk, up to 12 by 6 inches, 



crenate-serrate, rugose ; stem leaves similar but smaller, 



near the flowering region I to 2 inches only. Flowers in 



a tall handsome raceme, dense. Bracts /^ to % inch : 



pedicel ^ inch. Sepals J^ inch. Corolla 2 to 2^ inches 



tubular, broadening towards the mouth, pink with dark 



purple spots, hanging with mouth downwards. Stamens 



four, anthers cohering under the upper side of the 



corolla. Fruit a capsule, % inch, pubescent with jointed 



glandular hairs, splitting open by an upper and a lower 



valve. Seeds numerous, reddish brown. 



In woods near Ootacamund as a garden-escape. Kodai- 

 kanal. Fyson 3059. 



A common European plant. Fr. Digitate rougeatre. Ger. Rothe 

 Fingerhut. Malformations by which two or three flowers at the summit 

 coalesce into one widely open cojolla at the top while others lower down 

 on the spike are undeveloped, occasionally occur. 



VERONICA. F.B.1. 103 XXXIX. 



Herbs, shrubs or rarely trees with opposite or alternate 

 leaves and flowers in bracteate racemes (or occasionally 

 solitary) ; distinguished by the corolla tube very short 

 and lobes flat, a lateral one exterior in bud, the stamens 

 two only, and the fruit a two-valved capsule often 

 notched at the top. 



