160 SCEOPMULARIACF^. [ Lindenbebgia. 



1. L. macroatachya, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 22 ; F. B. I. iv, 262; Collett Fl. 

 Bind. 351. 



■A- glabrous or slightly pubescent herb. Stems 2-3 ft. high, erect and 

 usually stout. Leaves 1-3 in. long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, serrate, 

 petioles less than half the length of blade. Flowers h in. long, uni- 

 lateral, usually crowded in erect rigid spikes.^ Calyx longer than the 

 bracts ; lobes short, acute. Capsule about £ in. long, pubescent. 



Siwalik range and sub-Himalayan tracts eastwards to Oorakbpur ; also in 

 Merwara. Flowers April and May. Distbib. ; Western Himalaya ap to 

 4,000 ft., 'Punjib Plain and Shan Hills, extending to Siatn, Tonkin and 

 China. Closely allied to L. philippinensis, but less hairy and with 

 much shorter petioles. 



2. L. polyantha, Boyle ex Berth. Scroph. Ind. 22 ; F.B.I, iv, 262 ; 



Train Beng. PI. 760 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 307.; 



A densely glandular- villous annual. Stems erect or ascending, leafy, 

 12-20 in. long, branching from the ba^e. Leaves very shortly petioled, 

 ab ut |-in. long, ovate or elliptic, acute, margins crenate-serrate. 

 Flowers mary, unilateral, arranged in axillary ard terminal leafy spikes. 

 Calyx £-in. long, gland. -villous ; lobes oblong, obtuse. Corolla yellow, 

 twice as long as the calyx, hairy outside, upper lip pubescent, mid-lobe 

 of lower lip oblong, rounded at the apex. Ovary ovoid, pubescent. 

 Capsule £-in. L ng, hairy at the apex. 



Common within tbe area, on walls and banks. DistRib.: Throughout 

 India, ascending to 6,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; also in Baluchistan. 



3. L. urtiosefolia, Link and Otto Ic. PI. Bar. Hort. Berol.t. 48; 

 F.B.I, iv. 262 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 352; Prain Beng. PI. 760; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb, ii- 307. Stemodia ruderalis, Vahl ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 94. 



An annual, more or less glandular-hairy. Stems 4>-10 in. high, simple or 

 branched, of ten tufted, brittle when dry. Leaves f-2 in. long, broadly 

 ovate, crenate- serrate, usually gland -villous on both sides ; petioles i-£ 

 in. long. Flowers unilateral, shortly pedi celled, solitary or in pairs 

 in the axils of large leaves, sometimes farming axillary or 

 terminal lea f y racemes. Calyx £-in. long, densely gland.-villo us ; lobes 

 triangular-oblong, obtuse. Corolla yellow, 6 in. long, hairy outside, tube 

 tinged with red or purple, throat hairy, mid-lobe of lower lip narrow. 

 Ovary pubescent round the apex. Capsule £-in. long, oblong, hairy 

 above. 



Walls and banks, abundant within the area. Distrib.: Throughout. 

 India and up to 6,000 ft, on the Himalaya, extending to Afghanistan. 

 Not found in Ceylon. • 



