XC. SCROPHULARIACE.!!;. 303 



parts, DaJzeU\\ on rocks near Malmbleshwar, Woodrotul; Mahableshwar, common, 

 Cooke ! ; Fitzgerald Ghat, below Mahableshwar, Coo/ce ! ; Poona, Woodrow. Gujarat : 

 Dakor, Woodrow. — Disteib, India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Tropical and S. Africa, 

 Arabia. 



I have always found the plant (which is v^ery common at Mahableshwar) with dark 

 reddish-purple stems and pink flowers, and this seems to be its usual character. 

 Trimen (Fl. Ceyl. 1. c.) says that it is sometimes green and then has white flowers. — 

 The plant dries black, 



2. Striga densiflora, Bentli. in Hoolc. Comp. Bot. Mag. v. 1 (1835) 

 p. 363. An erect scabrid or strigose herb 6-18 in. high. Stem slender, 

 subquadrangular, harshly strigose, simple or branched ; root not 

 tuberous. Leaves sessile, ^-1| by -ys-^ in., linear, acute, erect, passing 

 into floral bracts. Flowers in slender spikes in the axils o£ floral bracts 

 which are longer than the calyx ; bracteoles 2, linear, acute, ciliate, 

 about I the length ot the calyx. Calyx i-| in. long, 5-ribbed ; teeth 

 slightly shorter than the tube, lanceolate-subulate, hairy, ciliate. Corolla 

 white ; tube nearly ^ in. long with hairs in the throat, incurved above 

 the middle ; limb \ in. or more across, the upper lip much shorter than 

 the lower, 2-fid, the lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the lobes oblong, obtuse. 

 Capsules included in the calyx, 1 in. long, oblong-obovoid, rounded at the 

 apex, tipped with the style-base. Seeds minute. El. B. I. v. 4, p. 299 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 181 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 175. — Flowers : Aug.-Nov. 



KoNKAN : stocks ! Deccan : Bowdhan near Poona, Woodrow ! ; Khandala, CooJce ! ; 

 Koina valley below Maliableshwar, Cookc\ Gujarat: Surat, Dalzelll — Distkib. 

 Moi-e or less througliout India. 



3. Striga lutea. Lour. Fl. CocUnch. (1790) p. 22. Stems 3-12 in. 

 high, erect, rigid, slender, simple or branched, strigose with prickly 

 hairs. Leaves sessile, g-lj in. long, linear, often rough with pustular 

 prickles. Flowers in long, lax spikes ; bracts usually longer than the 

 calyx; bracteoles Jjj in. long, linear-subulate, strigose. Calyx ^ in. 

 long, narrowly tubular in flower, widening in fruit, with 1 strong hirsute 

 rib running from the base of the calyx to the apex of each tooth and 

 with 1 (less commonly 2) secondary ribs between them which terminate 

 at the sinus ; teeth -^-^ in. long, lanceolate-subulate, rigid, bristle-tipped. 

 Corolla usually bright yellow, occasionally red or white (vaiying in size 

 with that of the plant), in well-grown specimens \ in. across ; tube § in. 

 long, pubescent or glabrous outside, much incurved at top beneath the 

 limb ; upper lip not half as long as the lower, bi'oad, scarcely emar- 

 ginate ; lower lip deeply 3-lobed, the lobes obovate-oblong, obtuse. 

 Capsules \ in. long, oblong-ellipsoid. Seeds minute, ii-regular. Fl. 

 B. I. v. 4, p. 299"; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 256 ; Woodr. m Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (L898) p. 175. " Striga hirsuta, Benth. in DC, Prodr. 

 V. 10, p. 502; Dalz. & Gibs, p. 181 ; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PL p, 108.— 

 Flowers : Nov. -Jan. 



KoNKAN : stocks] Deccan: 'KavW, Kanitkar \ ; Khandala, -SA/t'a !, (?raAam. S. M, 

 Country: Castlerock, Cooke\\ Badami, Cvokel, Woodrow \ Sind: Stocks] — Distrib. 

 India (Bengal, Panjab, Tenasserim, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Siam, Java, Oliina, 

 Arabia, Tropical and S. Africa, Madagascar. 



4. Striga euphrasioides, Bentli. in Oomp. Bot. Mag. v. 1 (1835-) 

 p. 364. A plant of very variable habit, sometimes 4-6 in. high, with 

 filiform simple stem, sometimes a much-branched stout herb, reaching 



