138 SCROPHULARIACE^. [ Vebkascum. 



Calyx spathacecus, compressed, split 

 in front ; corolla somewhat ventri- 

 cose at the throat, limb obscurely 

 2-lipped, anthers with one perfect 

 and one sessile empty cell • . 21. Centranthera. 



Calyx campannlate, 5-lobed or fid. 



Corolla tubefunnel-shaped ; tube 

 short, throat dilated ; anthers 

 2-celled. one of the cells sterile, 

 leaves pinnatisect . . .22. Sopdbia. 



Corolla-tube cylindric, anther-cells 

 both fertile, leaves toothed . 23. Linden bergia. 



1. VERBASCUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 250. 



Erect, tomentose or woolly, usually tall herbs. Leaves all alternate. 

 Flowers yellow, often tinged with purple or red, rarely white, 

 arranged in sin pie or panicled terminal racemes or spikes, ebracteate. 

 Calyx 5-lobed or partite, lobes imbricate. Corolla rotate ; lobes 

 5, broad, the 2 posterior ones (upper lip) outside in bud. Stamens 

 5 ; filaments all, or cnly the 3 upper ones, bearded ; anthers trans- 

 verse or oblique, cells confluent. Style dilated towards the apes, 

 stigma simple. Fruit a globose oblong or ovoid capsule, septicidally 

 2-valved, the valves separating from the axis. Seeds many, not 

 winged, rugose, embryo straight. — Species about 1£0, occurring in 

 Europe, N. Africa and in "Western and Central Asia. 



V. Thapsus, Linn. Sp. PL 177; Roxb. Fl. Ind, i, 560; F.B.I, iv, 

 250 ; Watt E. D. ; Collett Fl. Bind. 347. Vern. Gidar'tamaTcu (Jackal's 

 tobacco), known also by the name " Mullein " in England. 



An erect herb, densely clothed with soft greyish-yellow stellate tomen- 

 tum. Steins usually stout, simple, winged with the prolonged leaf- 

 bases. Leaves entire or crenate ; radical and lower cauline stalked, 

 6-18 in. long, obovate-lanceolate ; upper oblong, acute or acuminate. 

 Flowers crowded in a simple terminal woolly spike, 6-10 in. long, 

 yellow, bracts often longer than the flowers. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla 

 f-1 in. across, concave, woolly outside. Stamens with 3 of the filaments 

 clothed with white hairs, the other 2 longer and glabrous. Capsule 

 ovoid, tomentose. 



This species has been collected in Dehra Dun, N. Oudh and in the dis- 

 tricts of Moradabad and Agra, also in Bundelkhand. Flowers in April. 

 Distrib.: Punjab Plain and throughout the Himalayan ranges from 

 Bhutan to Kashmir, ascending to 13,000 ft. in N. Kumaon. It is found 



