Sutbba. ] SCROPHULARIACEJE. 141 



An erect herb, 6-18 in. high. Stem much branohod from the base, more or 

 less glandular-hairy above. Leaves 1-2 in. long, sub-sessilo, linear or 

 oblong-lanceolaie, entire. Flowers £ in. long, pale-pink streaked with 

 purple. Sepals narrow, speading, longer than the corolla. Capsule \ in. 

 long, pubescent. Seeds compressed, concave on one face, back keeled, 

 margins thickened. 



Common within the area, in cornfields. Flowers during the oold soaaon. 

 Distrib.: Punjab Plain, Salt Kango and W. Himalaya up to 6,0< ft., 

 mostly in cultivated ground, extending to N. Africa, Europe and the 

 Canaries. 



5. SUTERA, Roth; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 258. 



Annual or perennial herbs, or small shrubs, glabrous pubescent 

 or sometimes vi>cid. Leaves opposite or the upper often alternate, 

 pinnatifid toothed or snbentire. Flowers ;ixillary or in terminal 

 usually simple racemes; bracts small, leafy, not adnate to the 

 pedicels. Calyx usually 5-partite ; lobes narrow, move or less imbri- 

 cate in bud. Corolla tubular, not spurred ; tube slender, cylindric 

 or funnel-shaped, straight or somewhat curved, throat dilated or 

 not; lobes 5, subequal, obtuse, imbricate in bud, the 2 upper outside 

 in bud and rather smaller than the 3 lower. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mou*, included ; anthers 1-celled by confluence. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style filiform. Fruit an ovoid-oblong septicidal capsule, valves 

 bifid. Seeds many, rugose. — Species about 12u. chiefly in S. Africa. 



S glandulosa, Roth. Nov. Sp. 291; P. B.I.iv, 259; Prain Beng. PL 



759 } Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 285. 



A diffuse or sub-erect glandular-pubescent annual, branched from or 

 near the base, branches 6-12 in. long. Leaves shortly petioled, j-| in. 

 long, ovate in outlioe pinnatifid, the segments more or less deeply 

 toothed. Flowers nearly sessile, solitary in the axils, or the uppermost 

 in raceme*. Calyx T i-J in. long ; segments linear-oblong, subacute. 

 Corolla white, about twice as long as the calyx, glabrous ; lobes 

 subequal, oblong-obtuse. Capsules £ in. long, viscid-pubescent or 

 glabrous. 8eeds minute, yellowish. 



Common in the tract3 of the Jumna ravines, and in the black soil of 

 Bundelkhar.d. Flowers in .Jan. and Feb. Distrib. : From Behar and 

 Rajputana to the Deccan and S. India, extending to Arabia, Nubia and 

 Egypt. 



6. MONIERA, B. Jus*. 

 Undbe Hebpe8tis in Fl. Bbit. Ind. IV, 272. 



Glabrous herbs. Leaves often punctate, entire or toothed, or 

 mulfcifid when submerged. Flowers axillary or in racemes, yellow 

 blue or white, bracteoles small or none. Calyx 5»paitite ; segments 



