310 XC. SCEOPHULAUIACEiE. 



leaves, and solitary axillary flowers pale in the corolla-tube and with 

 violet aud purple shades in the limb. Maurandia Barclaijana, Woodr. 

 Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 405. Maurandya Bardayana, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. p. 03. 



Russelia juncea, Zucc. in Flora, v. 15, part 2 (1832) Beibl. p. 99. A 

 handsome plant, a native of Mexico, much grown in gardens, bushy, 

 3-4 ft. high, with long rush-like stems and bright scarlet tubular flowers 

 Avhich bloom throughout the year. The plant, which was introduced 

 into Bombay about the year 1850, is easily cultivated, every part of it 

 that touches the ground during the rainy season taking root. Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Suppl. p. 64 ; AVoodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 404. Russelia 

 florihunda, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174 {not of 

 H. B. & K.). 



Russelia rotundifolia, Cav. Icon. v. 5 (1799) p. 9, t. 415. IS'ot so 

 showy a plant as the former, than which it is less common, a native of 

 Mexico. It has opposite sessile suborbicular cordate reticulately veined 

 leaves, and scarlet flowers in axillary and terminal racemes. Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 174 & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, 

 p. 404. Russelia Jlorihimda, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. PI. v. 2, p. 359 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 64. 



Scojmria dulcis, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 116. A small branched leafy 

 annual herb, 1-3 ft. high, with opposite and 3-nately whorled leaves, 

 4 oblong sepals, and white flowers. This weed, a native of Tropical 

 America, is becoming naturalized in many parts of India, notably in 

 Bengal. Woodrow reports having found it in a salt swamp near 

 Bombay, flowering in November. I have not seen his spt>cimens. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 289 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 175. 



Excluded Species. 



MAZUS IfUGOSTJS, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (17W) p. 385. Dalzell & Gibson (Bo. Fl. 

 p. 170) menlion tliis as occurring on garden walks in Tanna, but, though often 

 searched fir, neither I nor any of tlie Poona pLint-collectors have found it. There is 

 1 specimen in Herb. Kew. collected by Dalzell, on which appears in liis own 

 handwriting " Found in a garden, but I do not think indigenous." 



Order XCI. OROBANCHACE^. 



Perennial root-parasites without lea^■cs or chlorophyll ; stem usually 

 simple, stout or slender, scaly. Flowers hermaphrodite, irregular, 

 solitary or in spikes or racemes ; bracts large, scale-like ; bracteoles 1-2, 

 scale-like or 0. Calyx spathaceous or 2-lipped, or with 4-5 free or 

 connate segments. Corolla hypogynous, curved, usually distinctly 2- 

 lipped (occasionally subcqually 5-lol)ed); upper lip often vaulted; throat 

 usually with 2 villous folds. Stamens didynamous, inserted on the 

 corolla-tube; anthers 1-2-celled, the cells frequently spurred at the 

 base, opening by slits or apical pores, 1 cell often imperfect. Disk 

 glandular or unilateral or 0. Ovary of 2 (rarely 3) connate carpels 1 



