300 xf. scuornuLAEi.vcE.T-. 



deltoid, snbobtnse. Corolla blue (IlooJcer) ; tube included in the calyx ; 

 lobes of the limb appearing above it. Stamens 2. Capsules scarcely 

 ■^ in. in dinm., enclosed in the slightly enlai'ged calyx. Seeds -^^ in. 

 long, ellipsoid. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 288; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 180 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 175. Microcarpcea sjxithnlata, 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. V. 2 (1831) p. 101, Suppl. t. 4 ; Grab. Cat. p. 142.— 

 Flow ers : Nov. 



Margins of tanks and other moist places, Graham, Balzell (|' Gihsion. Xonk.w : 

 Mahviin, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Upper Gangetic plain, Behar, W. Peninsula) ; 

 Tropical Africa and Australia. 



18. CAMPYLANTHUS, Eoth. 



Shrubs. Leaves alternate, linear, subflesby, entire. Flowers in termi- 

 nal racemes often secund ; pedicels with 2 bracts near the base. Calyx 

 deeply 5-fid or 5-partite ; segments imbricate. Corolla-tube elongate, 

 [blender, incurved ; lobes 5, orbicular or ovate, spreading, subequal, imbri- 

 cate, tbe lateral exterior in bud. Stamens 2, included ; filaments short ; 

 anther-cells divaricate, tbeir tips confluent. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 

 many in each cell; style short or long, straight or inflexed ; stigma 

 capitate. Capsule orbicular or broadly ovoid, compressed, septicidal ; 

 valves 2-fid or 2-partite. Seeds numerous, orbicular, compressed, notched 

 at the hilum ; funicle more or less expanded into a hyaline wing which 

 sometimes surrounds the entire seed. — Distrib. Canary and Cape de 

 Verde Islands, Arabia, Siud, Beluchistan ; species 4. 



1. Campylanthus ramosissimus, Wiglit, Icon. v. 4 (1850) 

 t. 1416. A low much-branched shrub ; branches slender, stiff, divaricate, 

 spiuescent. Leaves \-h in. long, some«hat fleshy, linear-oblong or 

 spathulate, obtuse, villous. Flowers in subcorymbose terminal few- 

 flowered racemes; pedicels usually shorter than the calyx ; bracts at the 

 base of the pedicels broadly lanceolate, acute, scarcely ^ in. long. 

 Calyx 1-1 in. long, narrowly campanulate, 5-partite almost to the base ; 

 segments lanceolate, acute. Corolla h in. long; tube | in. long, curved ; 

 lobes ovate, acute, veined. Capsules i in. in diam., orbicular, compressed, 

 glabrous; valves 2-j)artite. Seeds not seen. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 200 ; 

 Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 108 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 433 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 175. — Flowers : Nov.-Jan. 



Sind: limestone range near TTvdrabad, Stoclsl; Jungadi, Woodrow; hills of Sind, 

 Stocks, 522! — DisTKiB. Beluchistan. 



19. VERONICA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, the cnuline or all 

 rarely alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary, or in terminal or axillary 

 racemes ; bracts usually cons])icuous ; bracteoles 0. Calyx 4-5-partite ; 

 lower segments connate ; the uppermost, if present, smaller. Corolla 

 rotate or shortly hypocrateriform ; lobes spreading, the lateral or one of 

 them outermost in bud, the upper and lower lobes usually narrowest. 

 Stamens 2, adnate to the corolla-tube by the sides of the upper lobe, 

 exserted ; anther-cells parallel or not, obtuse, their tips confluent. Ovary 

 2-celled; ovules in each cell many or few, rarely only 2; style simple; 

 stigma subcapitate. Capsule 2-groovcd, compressed or turgid; dehiscence 



