284 XC. SCEOrnULAEIACEiE. 



veined, the remaining segments in fruit g by | in., lanceolate, acute. 

 Corolla scarcely i in. long, dingy-white with purple veins; upper lip 

 2-lobed ; lobes oblong, obtuse, tj^j in. long ; lower lip 3-lobed, spreading, 

 the lobes oblong, obtuse. Capsules 5-5 in. in diam., obliquely globose, 

 2-celled, the lower cell many-seeded, the upper very small, 3-4-seeded. 

 Seeds obconic, ^^j- in. long, truncate at both ends, acutely winged, pale. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p". 252; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 489. Linaria sphcerocarpa, 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. v. 10, p. 287; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 105. 

 Antirrhinum glaucum, Stocks, ex Wight, Icon. t. 1459. — Flowers : Dec. 

 Vern. Sannipdt. 



SiND : Cool-e I, Dalzell, 79 I, Woodrow, Stocks, 521 1 ; Jemadar ka Landa uear Karachi, 

 Stocksl — DisTEiB. Belucbistan, Afghanistan. 



The powdered fruit and leaves are sold as a drug which native practitioners 

 prescribe in typhoid fever. Tlie powder is used as snuff for bleeding at the nose. 

 See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Schweinfurthia pedicellata, Benth. <|- Hooh. f. Gen. PL v. 2 

 (1876) p. 934 (by error pediceUaris), Suffruiicose, erect, branched ; 

 stem and branches usually greyish, glabrous or rarely with a few 

 scattered glandular hairs. Leaves g-lj by sV^tV ^^"i sessile, linear, 

 subacute. Flowers axillary, solitary ; pedicels \-^ in. long, capillary. 

 Calyx ■!■ in. long, 5-partite, glabrous ; segments -^-^ in. long, ovate, 

 acute, the upper slightly longer and broader than the other 4. Corolla 

 2-lipped, ^ in. long, parallel-veined and with 2 lines of hairs in the 

 throat at the lower side ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed, the lobes yL in. long, 

 oblong, rounded at the apes ; lower lip 3-lobed, the lobes oblong- 

 rounded, the middle lobe longer and narrower than the lateral ones. 

 Stamens 4 (with a rudimentary 5th), didynamous, the lower pair the 

 longer; filaments hairy at the base ; anthers divaricate. Ovary glabrous ; 

 style glabrous. Capsules g-j in. in diam., globosi*, fragile, 2-celled, the 

 upper cell with few seeds or empty. Seeds J77 in. long, obconic, 

 truncate at both ends, strongly ribbed with longitudinal obtuse ribs. 

 Anarrhiyium pedicellatum, T. Anders. Flor. Aden, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 v. 5, Suppl. 1 (1860) p. 26. 



SiND : rare, CooJce\ — Distrib. Arabia. 



5, SUTERA, Eoth. 



Herbs or small shrubs, annual or perennial, glabrous, pubescent or 

 hispid, sometimes viscid. Leaves mostly opposite (the upper sometimes 

 alternate), subentire, pinnatilid, or more or less toothed. Flowers 

 axillary or in terminal simple (rarely compound) spikes or racemes ; 

 bracts not adhering along the pedicel. Cal vx usually 5-partite ; segments 

 sublinear or rarely ovate, more or less imbricate in bud. Corolla tubular, 

 not spurred at the base, deciduous ; tube long or short, cylindric or 

 iufundibuliform, straight or more or less curved ; throat dilated or not ; 

 limb regular or 2-li|)ped ; lobes entire, or shortly 2-fid or emarginate, 

 ecpuil or nearly so, inabricate in bud, the 2 upper exterior. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, e.xserted, or some or all included ; filaments filiform, in- 

 serted in the corolla-tube; anthers reniform, perfect, 1-celled by con- 

 fluence of the cells. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules numerous ; style filiform, 

 included or cxserted, slightly dilated upwards. Capsule septicidal. 



