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filaments more or less pubescent. Ovarj subglobose ; style stout, ^ in. 

 long, glabrous or nearly so. Capsules ovoid or subglobose, g in. iu 

 diam. Seeds small, echinulate. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 251 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 176 ; Wight, 111. t. 165 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 105 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 642. Linaria (sp.), Grab. Cat. p. 142. — Flowers: Sept. 



Throughout the Presidency, tolerably common. Konkan : Stocks ! ; Bassein hills, 

 Dalzell ^ Gibsoti. Deccan : Stocks !, Dalzell cf- Gibson, Cooke ! ; Dongergaon, near 

 Ahmednagar, Cooke ! ; Poona, Cooke !, Woodrow ! ; Ghat between Wai and Panchgani, 

 plentifid, Cooke ! S. M. Country : Belgaum, Dalzell ^ Gibson. Gujarat : Stocks ! ; 

 AhxnQdi&hstA, Dalzell ^ Gibson. Sind: Stocks\, Dalzell Sf Gibson, — Distrib. Throughout 

 India, usually in rocky or stony places ; Afghanistan, Ava, 



E.vcLUDED Species. 



LINABIA CABULICA (Benth. in DO. Prodr. v. 10 (1846) p. 270), which differs 

 from L. ramosissima, Wall., in being softly hirsute and having smaller and more 

 entire leaves and a larger corolla than that plant, with a spur which is usually longer 

 than the corolla-tube, does not appear to occur in the Bombay Presidency. The 

 specimens in Herb. Kew. from Stocks (1025 !) and Lace (3479 !) are from Beluchistan. 

 Linaria ramosissima, var. piibescens, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 251, of which a solitary 

 sheet occurs in Herb. Kew. (Stocks, 101 !) to which no locality has been assigned, 

 seems certainly to be L. cahulica. Stocks, in his MSS. note attached to the sheet in 

 question, was of opinion that this might be the case. The length of the spur, the 

 only character by which it would appear to differ, is not a very constant one, the spur 

 in some authenticated specimens of L. cahulica not being longer than the corolla-tube. 

 In fact Boissier (Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 368) describes it as shorter. 



4. SCH-WEINFURTHIA, A. Braun. 



Annual or perennial branched usually glabrous herbs. Leaves usually 

 alternate, quite entire. Flowers small, axillary. Calyx 5-partite ; seg- 

 ments iaibricate, the upper the largest. Corolla-tube large, siibsaccate 

 at the base, not spurred ; limb 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, 2-lobed, 

 the lower 3-lobed, the mid-lobe narrow er than the lateral ; palate closing 

 the throat. Stamens 4, fertile, didynamous (the 5tli rudimentary) ; 

 anthers 2-ceIled, the cells divaricate after flowering. Style filiform ; 

 stigma minute. Capsule subglobose, fragile, 2-celled, the upper cell 

 small, 3-4-seeded or empty, the lower longer and broader, large, many- 

 seeded, bursting irregularly. Seeds obconie, ribbed or winged, truncate 

 at both ends. — Distbib. N.E. Africa, Arabia, Afghanistan, Beluchistan, 

 Sind ; species 3. 



Leaves ovate or obovate ; ribs of the seeds acute 1. S. sphcsrocarpa. 



Leaves linear ; ribs of the seeds obtuse 2. S. pediccllata. 



1. Schweinfurthia sphaerocarpa, A. Braun, in Monatsh. Akad. 

 Wiss. Berl. (1866) p. 875. A subglabrous glaucous herb 6-12 in. high, 

 from a perennial root ; stems ascending, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 

 ill-sraelling when bruised, somewhat succulent, variable, |-1 by |-| in., 

 elliptic or ovate, sometimes slightly obovate or so much attenuated at 

 the base as to be subspathulate, acute, often apiculate, entire, sparsely 

 clothed on both sides with very minute hairs or glabrous, base usually 

 attenuated into a short petiole. Flowers axillary ; pedicels equalling 

 the petiole, deflexed in fruit. Calyx 5-partite, the upper segment very 

 large, reaching | by | in. in fritit, broadly ovate, subcordate, acute, 



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