XC. SCROPHULARIACE.i:. 301 



various. Seeds many or few, ovoid or globose, plano-concave or boat- 

 shaped, rugulose or smooth, sometimes winged. — Disteib. Throughout 

 the temperate and cold regions of both hemispheres, few in the Tropics, 

 not numerous in America ; species more than 200. 



1. Veronica Anagallis, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 12. An erect 

 succulent usually glabrous herb 3-18 in. high. Leaves sessile and 

 ^-amplexicaul or the lowest petiolate, 1-^5 by ^-| in., oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, entire or more or less serrate, glabrous, 

 base usually cordate. Flowers in axillary lax slender racemes 3-6 in. 

 long ; bracts beneath the pedicels linear-lanceolate, acute, -/q— "6 ^^' ^^°S 5 

 pedicels l- ^ in. long, filiform. Calyx y^"-^ in. long, divided to the 

 base ; sepals ovate, subacute. Corolla ^^ in. across, pink or white ; 

 tube very short. Capsules compressed, orbicular-oblong, i-^ in. long, 

 emarginate, glabrous. Seeds ellipsoid-oblong, J^- in. long, biconvex. 

 n. B. I. V. 4, p. 293; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 4, p. 437; Beichb. Icon. 

 Germ. t. 1702; Woudr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 175.— 

 Flowers : Nov.-Jau. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! Deccan : Woodroiu ; Ambarthind near Bliore, Kanitkar \ ; 

 Khair in watercourses, Nairne. — Distrib. India (Panjab, Kashmir, Bhotan, Bengal, 

 Assam, W. Peninsula) ; Europe, N. Asia, S. Africa, N. America. 



20. BUCHNERA, Linn. 



Annual rigid herbs, black when dry. Leaves : lower opposite, broad ; 

 upper alternate, narrow. Flowers sessile, axillary or in bracteate 

 spikes, 2-bracteolate. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, 10-nerved, sometimes 

 5-ribbed. Corolla-tube slender ; lobes 5, flat, subequal, spreading, the 

 upper inmost in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers 

 1-celled, vertical, dorsifixed, the bases obtuse, the connective sometimes 

 mucronate. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many in each cell ; style thickened 

 or clavate upwards ; stigma entire or notched. Capsule oblong, locu- 

 licidal ; valves entire, coriaceous, septiferous, separating from the 

 placentas. Seeds very many, obovoid or oblong, reticulated. — Distrib. 

 Throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres ; species about 75. 



1. Buchnera hispida, Bnch-Ham. in D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. 

 (1825) p. 91. An erect herb 6-20 in. high ; stem slender (sometimes very 

 slender), hairy, sometimes, but not commonly, branched above. Leaves 

 sessile or narrowed into a more or less obscure petiole, toothed or 

 entire ; the lower crowded, obovate or oblong, 1-2 by j-l in. ; the 

 upper narrower, linear-lanceolate, passing into alternate narrow floral 

 bracts. Flowers distant, sessile in the axils of linear acute floral bracts, 

 arranged in terminal spikes 6-10 in. long ; bracteoles -j^ij-yo ^^' l^>^g» 

 subulate, hispid. Calyx i-| in. long, tubular, hispid ; teeth -^ in. long, 

 lanceolate, acute. Corolla light-purple ; tube nearly ^ in. long, slender, 

 hairy inside; lobes about ^ in. long, obovate, obtuse. Capsules oblong, 

 shorter than the calyx. Seeds about -^j^ in. long, irregularly cuneate- 

 oblong, usually more or less truncate at one end, rounded at the other. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 4, p. 298; Dal/,. & Gibs. p. 182; Wight, Icon. t. 1413,- 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 175. 



Xonkan: Stocl'sl, Dalzelll; Island of Karanja, Z>«^^e/i? (^ Gibson,. Deccan: Kliau- 

 dala, Cookcl; Kirkee, Woudrow; Koina valley below Mahableshwar, Cooke'.; Tale- 



