306 xc. sceophflabiace.t:. 



The juice of the plant is emplojed by laborers in the Deccan as an astringent to 

 heal sores on the feet caused by exposure to moisture. It stains the skin at first 

 yellow and subsequently black. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



2. Sopubia trifida, Buck-Ham. in Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. (1825) 

 p. 88. A slender glabi-ous or pubescent erect herb 1-2 ft. high ; stem 

 furrowed aud angular, more or less pubescent, simple or branched. 

 Leaves sessile, g-lg in. long, narrowly linear, acute, the upper un- 

 divided, alternate, the lower mostly 3-fid, often in whorls of 3, glabrous 

 above, minutely pubescent beneath. Flowers in bracteate terminal 

 racemes ; bracts longer or shorter than the pedicels; bracteoles on the 

 pedicels a little below the calyx, alternate, linear-subulate, -i- in. long; 

 pedicels i— 3- in. long, slender. Calyx campanulate, \ in. long, glabrous 

 and slightly ribbed outside, woolly inside, divided |-way down ; teeth 5, 

 deltoid-ovate, acute, with membranous margins. Corolla subrotate, 

 yellow with a purplish eye (Trinie7i), | in. across ; tube very short ; 

 limb spreadi*ng, with o rounded lobes. Filaments glabrous. Style long, 

 thickened upwards ; stigma tongue-shaped. Capsules ellipsoid, scarcely 

 longer than the slightly enlarged calyx, notched at the apex. Seeds 

 3^^ in. long, euneate-oblong, striate. Fl. B. 1. v. 4, p. 302 ; Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 3, p. 257 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 175. 

 — Flowers : Oct. 



Rare in the Bombay Presidency. Konkan ; S/oc/iSl, Lawl Deccan: Pancbgani, 

 Woodrow. — DisTRiB. More or less throughout India in hilly districts ; Ceylon. 



24. LINDENBERGIA, Lehm. 



Annual or perennial usually villous herbs, woody below ; branches 

 erect, straggling or ascending. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, 

 toothed. Flowers axillary or passing into terminal spikes or racemes, 

 usually yellow ; bracts leafy ; bracteoles 0. Calyx campauiilate, semi- 

 5-fid. Corolla-tube cylindric ; upper lip innermost in bud, bi'oad, emar- 

 ginate, or 2-lobed ; lower lip larger, 3-lobed, spreading, outermost in 

 bud ; throat and lip with a 2-pIicate palate. Stamens didynamous, 

 included ; anthers with separate stalked cells, all fertile. Capsule 

 oblong or ovoid, 2-grooved, loculicidal ; valves entire, separating from 

 the placentiferous dissepiment. Seeds numerous, minute. — Distriu, 

 East Africa, Arabia, India, and the Malayan Archipelago ; species 8. 



Bentham in DC. Prodr. v. 10 (1840) p. 340 puts Lindenhergia under 

 the section in which the upper lip of the corolla is always exterior in 

 bud, as do also Bentham and Hooker (Gen. Plant, v. 2, p. 91*J) and 

 C. B. Clarke (Hook. f. Fl. B. L v. 4, p. 247). This is not the case in 

 the Liadenberyias I have examined, in all of which the upper lip was 

 found to be innermost in bud. 



Calyx-lobes acute; capsule glabrous 1. L. ahyssinica. 



Calyx-lohes obtuse ; upper ]iart of capsule pubescent. 



Leaves jJ-2 in. long ; petioles luoderately long 2. L. urtiaefolia. 



Leaves | iu. long ; petioles very short o. L. polyantha. 



1. Lindenbergia abyssinica, ITochst. ex Bcnth. in DO. rrodr. 

 V. 10 (184n) p. 377. A \ ist-()ns-])iil)escent or pilose herb woody at the 

 base (? perennial); stem 11-1 8 in. high, divaricately branched. Leaves 

 1-1 1 by |-1| in., broadly ovate, acute, coarsely crenale-serrate, hairy on 

 both surfaces; petioles ]-.] iu. long. Flowers in lax lerminal spikes or 



