2. LiNARiA.j 98. SCROPHULARIACE^. 



1. L. ramosissima, Wall. Indian Ivy-leaved Toad Flax. 



A pretty little trailing, rarely suberect, plant with slender stems 

 many inches long spreading from the rootstock and smaU leaves, 

 many of which are ivy-shaped and 5- or 6-7-lobed, others on quicker 

 growing shoots elliptic entire or scarcely lobed. Flowers small 

 yellow on capillary pedicels exceeding the leaves. Capsule "I-'IS", 

 globose-ovoid, opening on one side by a valve, on the other by a sub- 

 apical pore. 



Patna! "Common alon<? the Gano-es above Patna," Kew Herb. "In most of 

 the provinces," according to Be»ff. PL, but this is probably in consideration of it& 

 general distribution and is not borne out by the material to hand. There are no 

 specimens from Behar and Orissa in the Cal. Herb., so that it is at any rate 

 exceedingly rare in our area. Fl. Oct. and c.s. Fr. May- June. 



Stems slender pubescent and glabrescent. Leaves in" the Patna plant glabrous. 

 The leaves are very variable, as also is the hairiness. Those on the plant in the 

 hot season are often only -l-o-'S" long, but those produced in the rainy season 1" or 

 sometimes even 2" long. Petioles •2-'-l" slender. Pedicels 'i-V5". Calyx •12", 

 nearly glabrous, sepals lanceolate slender. Corolla '2-ii", tube puberulous, spur 

 short, 'OS". Seeds minutelj' spinulose. 



2. L. cabulica, Benth. 



Habit similar to the last but more rigid, always softly hirsute. 

 Leaves ovate sub-hastate and lobed or upper lanceolate sagittate. 

 Pedicels longer than the leaves, spur longer than the corolla-tube, 

 seeds scabrous. 



Shahabad, Rhotas cliffs, J.D.H. ! 



But I take the Rhotas specimen to l)e ».\i^o L.ramoshsima. The stems, petioles, 

 calyx and corolla are minutely pubescent only whereas L. cabulica is hirsute. The 

 corolla is "2" with spur -08" only. 



The two species are very closely allied, and as regards the length of the spur 

 while Benfham saj's that is longer than the corolla-tube in i. cabulica, Bosssier 

 states that it is shorter. Praia also Beng. PI.) gives L. tncana. Wall, from W. 

 Behar. The above specimen from Rhotas was at firsit so named, but I can find no 

 others. The species is a Himalayan one. 



Antirrhinum majus, L., the common Snapdragon, is often grown in 

 gardens. It is a native of southern Europe and northern Africa. 



4. RUSSELIA, Jacq. 



Shriibs or undershrubs with angular branches and often pendulous 

 branchlets, opposite or whorled leaves often minute or squamiform. 

 Flowers scarlet, in dichotomous cymes, or peduncles 1-3-fld. only. 

 Calj'^x 5-fid. Corolla tubular. Stamens 4 fertile, subdeclinate at base, 

 anther-cells divaricate at length confluent ; fifth stamen rudimentary, 

 minute. Capsule subglobose, septicidal, valves 2-fid. Seeds many, 

 ovoid, mixed with long hyaline caducous hairs which arise from tha 

 placentae. 



Natives of Mexico. 

 Glabrous. Leaves on branchlets squamiform. Peduncles l-3fld. \. juvcea. 

 Pubescent. Leaves all developed. Peduncles short many-fid. . 2. rotundifolia. 



1. R. juncea, Zuccar. 



A very beautiful plant 3-4 ft. high with rush-like branches and 

 upper leaves reduced to scales, thovigh in the rains those on the new 

 shoots are well developed linear, lanceolate or ovate. Flowers '5" 



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