282 XC. SCROPHULARIACE/E. 



Leaves : radical 2-4 by |-1| in,, on long petioles, lyrate, compound or 

 pinnatisect, with several small leaflets or segments at the base and a 

 large ovate-oblong subacute terminal lobe ; lower cauline leaves similar 

 but smaller, and with shorter petioles ; upper cauline leaves gradually 

 becoming smaller and sessile, passing into bracts, all coarsely dentate, 

 more or less hairy on both sides. Flowers yellow, in simple or branched 

 terminal racemes 1-2 ft. long ; rhachis glandular-pubescent ; pedicels 

 longer than the calyx, glandidar-pubescent ; bracts (or floral leaves) 

 foliaceous, ovate, acute, sessile, gradually becoming smaller upwards. 

 Calyx rather less than ^ in. long, deeply divided, glandular-pubescent ; 

 lobes ^ in. long, linear-oblong, subacute. Corolla rotate, g in. in diam. ; 

 lobes 5, rounded. Filaments densely bearded with purple hairs. Ovary 

 globose, glabrous ; style glabrous. Capsules j-5 in. in diam., subglobose. 

 Seeds -^ in. long, oblong, truncate, warted. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 251 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 176; Wight, Icon. t. 1406; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. 

 p. 105 ; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 240 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1898) p. 174 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 2, p. 241. Celsia 

 Arcturus, Grab. Cat. p. 141 (not of Jacq.). — Flowers : Jan.-May. 

 Veen. Kutal-i. 



KoNKAN : Law] Deccan : waste x\]aceB, Balzell cj- Gihson; Poona, Cookel, Wood- 

 row I ; 'Raighar Fort, Daizell cf Gibi^on. Gi'jauat : IVoodrow. Sind: Stocks'. — 

 DisTRiB. Throughout India ; Ceylon, Afghanistan, Ava, China. 



The plant has some repute in native medicine. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



3. LIN ARIA, Juss. 



Herbs. Leaves usually opposite or whorled below and alternate 

 above. Flowers axillary, solitary, or the upper arranged in a terminal 

 raceme or spike, the floral leaACS reduced to bracts ; pedicels slender ; 

 bracteoles 0. Calyx 5-partite ; segments imbricate. Corolla personate, 

 2-lipped ; tube spurred in front ; upper lip ei'ect, 2-lobed ; lower lip 

 spreading, 3-lobed ; throat usually closed by the tumid palate. Stamens 

 4, didynamous, included, ascending ; anthers with distinct parallel cells. 

 Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many ; style filiform ; stigma minute. Capsule 

 ovoid or globose, 2-celled, both cells or the anterior only opening by an 

 apical pore. Seeds angled, rugose or echinulate, wingless, or discoid 

 and winged. — Disteib. Chiefly in the temperate regions of the world; 

 species 130. 



1. Linaria ramosissima. Wall. PI. As. Bar. v. 2 (1831) p. 43, 

 1. 153. A perennial herb often much-branched from the base ; branches 

 slender, terete, prostrate or suberect, 1-2| ft. long, usually glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate, very variable, 5-II in. long, variable in breadth, 

 glabrous or the lower sometimes pubescent, the lower 5-7-lobed, trian- 

 gular-hastate, the upper usually lanceolate-sagittate ; petioles ^-| in. 

 long, filiform. Flowers yellow, usually axillary, solitary ; pedicels capil- 

 ]„ry^ I-I2 i"- ^0^8' ebracteate. Calyx I in. long, divided almost to the 

 base, hairy, often becoming glabrous in fruit ; segments linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, from an ovate men)branously-margined base. Corolla (including 

 the spur) nearly | in. long, pubescent outside ; spur ^ in. long; upper 

 lip 2-lobed, the lobes jJg- in. long, oblong, obtuse ; the lower lip 3-lobed, 

 the lobes spreading, -^^ in. long, oblong, obtuse. Stamens didynamous ; 



