302 SCROPHULARIACE/E. 



Species 200, in temperate and cold regions of the whole 

 world, widely dispersed. 



Stems prostrate : leaves alternate : flowers pedicelled in the leaf- 

 axils . . . common Speedwell. .... V. agrestis. 

 Stem erect : leaves opposite : flowers in axillary bracteate spikes 

 V. javanica. 



Veronica agrestis Linn. ; F.B.L iv 294, XXXIX 9 » 

 common or Corn Speedwell. 



A tender prostrate plant; pubescent with jointed 

 hairs, some glandular. Leaves J^ to M inch, shortly 

 stalked, ovate, abrupt or cordate at the base, coarsely 

 serrate. Pedicels axillary 5^ to I inch, very slender. 

 Sepals ovate-elliptic, Y^ inch, fringed with simple and 

 a few glandular hairs. Corolla blue. Fruit of two diver- 

 gent lobes, one net-veined when ripe and slightly keeled. 

 t. 198. 



Road-sides. Ootacamund : Lovedale. Fyson 1453, 1450, 

 2008. Bourne 705. There appears to me to be no difference 

 between this and the European plant. 



Gen. Dist. Of species and varieties— widely, all over Europe and 

 northern Asia to Japan, Himalayas, etc. Fr. Velvate sauvage, Ger. 

 Ackerohrenpreis. 



Veronica javanica Bl ; F.BJ. iv 296, XXXIX 15 ; 

 Java Speedwell. Tender, annual herb. Stems numerous 

 erect. Leaves opposite, shortly stalked, ^ to 1% by Yz 

 to M inch, deltoid with abrupt nearly horizontal base, 

 coarsely serrate, pubescent. Spikes of flowers axillary, 2 

 to 3 inches : bracts J4 inch, oblanceolate : pedicel Y, inch. 

 Corolla Y\ inch, capsule Y2 to Y inch, not longer than 

 the sepals. Style 1/30 inch. 



Nilgiris : Lovedale (collected by Miss Edwards in Novem- 

 ber). Pulneys : Kodaikanal (^6'?^r?2^) and below. Fyson 1454. 

 Bourne 874, 1683. 



Gen. Dist. Java, Himalayas, Loochoo islands. This appears to be 

 the first record of this species in South India. 



STRIGA. F.B.I. 103 XLii. 



Small herbs with slender stem and narrow leaves, 



rough with hard short hairs, and drying black. Flowers 



