Order 84. Scrophularinece. 215 



corolla tube long and slender, lobes equal, stamens included, 

 capsule beaked. 



14. CENTRANTHERA. Kigid and rough, calyx large, more or 

 less 2-lipped with 2 bracts, corolla long-tubed, wide-mouthed, 

 with five spreading lobes about equal, anthers meeting in pairs 

 and spurred. 



15. SOPUBIA. Corolla short- tubed, broad-mouthed, with 5 

 spreading lobes about equal, anthers with only one cell per- 

 fect. 



1. CELSIA. 



C. Coromandelliana. A stout strong-smelling plant covered 

 with sticky hairs, and with many leaves from the root, lower 

 ones pinnate or pinnatifid with unequal lobes, upper ovate, 

 flowers in a long erect spike, yellow, with a leaf-like bract to 

 each flower, sepals toothed or with intermediate segments, 

 capsule ovate smooth. Kutki, Kolhal. 



Waste places. Deccan and Konkan. Throughout India (#.) 

 This plant is very like one of the English Mulleins, and the geims 



only differs from that (Yerbascum) by having 4 stamens instead 



of 5. 



2. LINARIA. Toadflax. 



L. ramosissima. A smooth delicate prostrate plant, much 

 branched, leaves triangular or lobed, flowers small, yellow, 

 solitary and long-stalked, spur short, curved, sepals linear 

 lanceolate. 



The Deccan and elsewhere. Throughout India on rocks and 

 stony places (#.). 



This is easily recognized by its likeness to the English L. cym- 

 balaria, called " Mother of Thousauds," " Creeping Jenny," and 

 other names 



"The little flower that clings 



To the turrets and the walls.'' Tennyson. 



3. LlNDBNBBRGIA. 



L. urticcB/olia. A very downy plant, leaves small, ovate, 

 serrate, flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, the throat spotted, 

 calyx much shorter than corolla, and as long as the capsule. 

 Dhol, gazdar. 



Common on walls, and hence called by .ft. (Stemodia) muralis. 

 Throughout India; varies much in hairiness and disposition of the 

 flowers (f.). 



