140 SCROPRULARIACE&. [ Linabia. 



in front at the base ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 

 3-lobed, throat usually closed by the tumid palate. Stamens 

 didynamous, ascending, included ; anther-cells distinct, parallel. 

 Style filiform, stigma minute. Fruit an ovoid or globoee 2-celled, 

 capsule, each cell < r the anterior only opening by an apical pore. 

 Seeds angled, rugose wingless or discoid and winged. — Species about 

 150, chiefly in temperate regions of the world. 



L. ramosissima, Wall. PL As. Bar. ii, 43, t. 153; Boyle III. 290; 

 F. B. I. iv, 251 ; Watt E. D. ; Collett Fl. Siml. 347 ; Brain Beng. PI. 757 ; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 282. Toad-flax. 



A glabrous or slightly pubescent pereimial herb, often much branched 

 from the rootstock; hranches sleuder, 1-2 ft. long, usually prostrate and 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, peiioled, very variable in size and 

 breadth, gUb.ous or the lowermost somewhat pubescent; lower 5-7 

 lobed, triangular-hastate ; upper usually larceolate, with acute diverg- 

 ing basal lobes ; petioles filiform, |-§ in. long. Flowers on slender 

 axillary usually solitary ebracteate pedicels longer than the petioles. 

 Calyx i in. long, hairy but often glabrous when in fruit ; segments 

 linear-lanceolate, the margins membranous towards the base. Corolla 

 (including spur) nearly | in. long, yellow, hairy outside ; spur straight 

 obtuse, shorter tian the tube; lobes of both lips oblong, obtuse. 

 Filaments somewhat pubescent. Style stout. Seeds small echinulate. 



On walls and rocks within the drier portions of the area, common in the 

 Jumna and Chambiil ravines in the districts of Agra and Etawah 

 also in Bundelkband. Flowers during the cold season. Distbib. : 

 Throughout India in the plains and up to 5,000 ft. in Kumaon, extend- 

 ing to Afghanistan and Upper Burma. 



4. ANTIRRHINUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Iud. iv, 253. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire or lobed, lower opposite, 

 upper alternate. Flowers solitary and axillary or passing into 

 terminal racemes with bract-like floral leaves. Calyx 5-partite, 

 segments imbricate. Corolla flipped and personate ; tube com- 

 pressed, faccate in front at the base ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed; lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed; palate broad, bearded, closing the throat. 

 Stamens didynamous; anther-cells distinct, parallel. Style filiform, 

 stigma 2-lobed. Fruit an ovoid or glohose capsule, each cell open- 

 ing by one pore, or the posterior by a pair of toothed pores. Seeds 

 many, minute, oblong, rugose or pitted. — Species about 35, in tem- 

 perate regions of the northern hemisphere, chiefly in N. America. 



A, Orontium, Linn. Sp. Bl. 617 ; Boyle III, 290 : F.B.I, iv, 253 # 

 Collett Fl. Siml- 348. Corn Snapdragon. 



