250 cm. SCROPHULAKINEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Anticliaris . 



in all the axils. Corolla ^ in. long, rosy. Anthers narrow, 1 -celled, glabrous. 

 Capsule % in., hispid. Very near A. arabica, Endl. 



2. A. linearis, Hochst. in Schimp. PL Nub. ; viscidly pubescent, leaves 

 linear acute, pedicels capillary much longer than the calyx, corolla pubescent, 

 sepals about half as long as the capsule. Aschers. in Bericht. Akad. Wiss. BerL 

 1866, 883 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 423. Doratanthera linearis, Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. x. 347. Distemon angustifolius, Ehrb. $ Hempr. mss. 



PUNJAB PLAIN, Thomson, Edgeworth. SCINDE, Stocks. DISTKIB. Westward 

 through Arabia and Tropical Africa to the Cape de Verde Islds. 



Usually more slender than A. glandulosa. Leaves 1-1^ by ^-^ in. Flowers in 

 all the axils. Corolla nearly ^ in. long, rosy. Anthers short, 2-celled, hairy. Capsule 

 3 in., glabrous. 



TRIBE II. VERBASCEJE. 



2. VERBASCU1K, L. 



Erect, tomentose or woolly, usually tall herbs. Leaves all alternate. Floivers 

 in simple or panicled terminal racemes or spikes, ebracteate, yellow, rarely 

 white or red. Calyx 5-lobed or -partite, lobes imbricate. Corolla rotate ; lobes 

 5, broad, the upper exterior in bud. Stamens 5 (very rarely 4), filaments all 

 or the three upper bearded; anthers transverse or oblique, cells confluent. 

 Style-top dilated, stigma simple. Capsule globose, oblong, or ovoid, septicidal ; 

 valves separating from the axis. Seeds numerous, rugose, not winged ; embryo 

 straight. Species about 100 ; chiefly Mediterranean and Oriental. 



V. virgatum, With. (Wight III 165, bis. f. 1, and Ic. 1. 1404. Celsia viscosa, Wight 

 Cat. n. 1599, and Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 81, in part, not of Both), a West 

 European species, occurs in the Nilgherries, doubtless as a garden escape. 



1. V. Thapsus, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 225; densely woolly, 

 eglandular, stem simple, leaves oblanceolate very decurrent entire or crenate, 

 flowers in a simple dense woolly spike. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 301 ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 461. V. indicum, Wall. Cat. 2630, and in Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. ii. 236 ; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 79. ? V. Blattaria, T. A. Schmidt 

 in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1868, 243, not of Linn. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-11,000 ft.; from Kashmir to Bhotan. WESTERN 

 TIBET ; Ladak, Thomson. DISTRIB. Westwards to Britain. 



Stem stout, 2-3 ft. Boot-leaves 6-18 in., cauline oblong, upper acuminate. Spike 

 6-10 in. ; bracts longer than the flowers. Stamens 5, fertile, 2 glabrous and 3 with 

 white hairs. As this is the only common Himalayan species, it must be that referred 

 to as T. Blatteria by T. A. Schmidt. 



VAR. thapsiforme ; bracts very long. V. thapsiforme, Schrad.; Boiss. I.e. 301. 

 V. cuspidatum, Schrad. ; T. A. Schmidt in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1868, 243. 



2. V. celsioides, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 229; glandular-pubescent, 

 lower leaves pinnatisect, upper auricled cordate acuminate, flowers racemose. 



KUMAON ; at the. foot of the hills, Edgeworth. The PUNJAB ; at Hussan, Aitchison. 



Stem 2-3 ft. Leaves 4-6 in., sessile or petioled, irregularly toothed and lobulate. 

 Flowers in a long loose raceme ; bracts ovate-lanceolate ; pedicels -| in. Sepals 

 oblong, obtuse. Corolla | in. diam. Stamens 4-5 ; filaments woolly. This species, 

 being sometimes tetrandrous, unites Verbascum with Celsia. 



