SCROPHULARIACE^E. 



smooth, succulent. Leaves opposite, sessile, obovate, wedge-shaped or 

 oblong, smooth, entire, obtuse, fleshy, dotted with minute spots. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, alternate, solitary, round, smooth, shorter than the 

 leaves, one-flowered. Flowers blue. Bractes 2-awled, pressing on 

 the calyx laterally. Calyx 5-leaved, the exterior three leaflets large, 

 oblong, the two interior small linear ; all are concave, smooth, pointed 

 and permanent. Corolla campanulate; border 5-parted, nearly equal. 

 Anthers 2-cleft at the base, blue. Stigma large, somewhat 2-lobed. 

 Capsule ovate, 2-celled, 2-valved. Seeds very numerous. Roxb. 

 The natives of India use the expressed juice, mixed with Petroleum, 

 to rub on parts affected with rheumatic pains. 



1051. H. ? amara Benth. scroph .ind. 30. Gratiola amara 

 Roxb.fi. ind. i. 135. Moluccas. 



Root fibrous. Stems and branches creeping, with their extremities 

 suberect, 4-sided, coloured, smooth. Leaves opposite, petioled, cor- 

 date deeply serrate, somewhat rugose, of a soft texture, but free of 

 pubescence ; in general about 2 inches long. Peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, rather longer than the petioles, supporting at their extremities 

 2 or 3 pairs of opposite pedicelled flowers. Bractes small, oblong, one 

 under the insertion of each pedicel. Calyx of 2 pair of opposite leaflets, 

 exterior pair large, cordate, often notched ; the upper one larger and 

 incumbent over the rest of the calyx and all the corolla except the under 

 lip ; inner or lateral pair linear-lanceolate, and much smaller than the 

 exterior pair. Corolla bilabiate; tube contracted at the middle ; upper 

 lip straight, narrow with a 2-lobed apex; under lip broad, 3-lobed, 

 drooping. Stamina; the fertile pair of filaments lodged under the upper 

 lip of the corolla, with twin anthers, adhering by pairs, the sterile pair 

 from the under lip, with large, yellow, free, clavate apices. Stigma 

 2-lobed. Capsules ovate, 2-celled, hid between the exterior leaflets of 

 the calyx. Seeds numerous, very small. The leaves are excessively 

 bitter, and might no doubt answer valuable purposes in medicine. 

 Roxb. 



CALCEOLARIA. 



Calyx 4-parted. Corolla rotate, 2-lipped ; the upper lip very 

 small and convex, the lower distended into a large pouch. Sta- 

 mens 2, with 1 -celled transverse anthers. Capsule half 2-valved ; 

 valves bifid. 



1052. C. trifida Fl. Peruv. i. 17. t. 26. b. Vahl. enum. i. 185. 



Woods of Peru, in watery places. (Tumpu.) 



Stem suffruticose, 2-3 feet high, branched, nearly smooth. Leaves 

 cordate-ovate, obtuse, serrated, the lower opposite and stalked, the 

 upper ternate, sessile, covered with glandular hairs ; petioles connate. 

 Peduncles axillary and terminal, umbellate, hoary. Corolla yellow. 



Leaves are said to be tonic and febrifugal. 



1053. C. pinnata Linn. mant. 171. Vahl. enum. i. 189. Act. 

 Mm. 1770. t. 8. Bot. Mag. t. 41. Damp places in Peru. 



An annual about 2 feet high, hairy and viscid all over. Leaves 

 stalked, all pinnated, with toothed leaflets, or even pinnatifid ones at 

 the lower part of the stem. Peduncles 2 or 3 together. Sepals ovate 



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