Celsia.] cm. SCROPHULAEINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 251 



3. CEX.SXA, L. 



Characters of Verbascum, but stamens 4 (see also V. celsioides). 



1. C. coromandeliana, Vahl Symb. iii. 79; finely pubescent or 

 tomentose, glandular above, root-leaves petioled lyrate-pinnatifid, cauline sessile 

 oblong-ovate toothed, racemes simple or panicled, sepals entire or toothed. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 246 ; JRoxb. Fl, Ind. iii. 100; Wall Cat. 2631 ; Wight 

 III. t. 165, bis f. 1, right hand, and Ic. t. 1406 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 176; 

 Boiss. FL Orient, iv. 358. C. viscosa, Roth Catal Bot. ii. 69, and iii. 50 ; 

 Wight in Hook. Journ. Bot. i. (1834) 228, t. 129; Nees in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xvii. 81, in part. 



Throughout INDIA ; from the Punjab to Ceylon and Pegu, ascending to 5000 ft. 

 DISTKIB. Affghanistan, Ava, China. 



Annual. Stem 2-3 ft., stout or slender. Leaves 2-4 in., the large terminal lobe 

 usually oblong, obtuse, toothed. Raceme 1-2 ft. ; pedicels - ^ in. ; bracts ovate, 

 shorter. Sepals oblong or ovate. Corolla in. diam., yellow. Filaments all hairy. 

 Capsule subglobose, ^^ in. diam. 



4. LINARIA, Juss. 



Herbs. Leaves usually opposite, or whorled below and alternate above. 

 Flowers axillary, racemose or spicate, ebracteolate. Sepals 5, imbricate. Corolla- 

 tube spurred in front ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, throat 

 usually closed by the tumid palate. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, included ; 

 anther-cells distinct, parallel. Style filiform, stigma minute. Capsule ovoid or 

 globose, 2-celled, each cell or the anterior only opening by an apical pore. Seeds 

 numerous, polymorphous. Species 130, almost exclusively natives of the 

 temperate regions of the old world. 



L. striata, DC., a Mediterranean species, has been found in the Khasia Mts. (near 

 Churra), by Clarke, no doubt an escape. L. triphylla, Mill., a plant of the same 

 region, also occurs in India according to Bentham (in DC. Prodr. x. 274), but I have 

 seen no specimen. 



* Sepals narrowly lanceolate. 



1. Zi. ramosissima, Wall. PI. As. Ear. ii. 43, t. 153, and Cat. 3911 ; 

 perennial, nearly glabrous, branches prostrate slender, leaves alternate petioled 

 ovate-cordate, or lower 6-7-lobed triangular-hastate and upper lanceolate 

 sagittate, pedicels capillary longer than the petiole, spur shorter than the corolla- 

 tube, seeds scabrous. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 270 ; Wight III. t. 165; Dalz. 

 $ Gibs. #omb. Fl. 176; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 368. L. Roylei, Chavannes 

 Monogr. Antirrh. 112. 



Throughout INDIA, on rocks and stony places, from the Punjab and Scinde to- 

 Chittagong and CEYLON ; ascending the hills to 5000 ft. DISTBIB. Affghanistan, Ava. 



Branches numerous, filiform, spreading from the rootstock. Leaves membranous, 

 -2 in., extremely variable. Flowers yellow ; pedicels l-l in. fypals lanceolate. 

 Corolla % in. long, spur short, tube hairy, upper lip short. Capftle with subequal 

 lobes. Seeds minute, ovoid. The var. ovata, Benth., with all the leaves ovate-cordate, 

 passes so insensibly into the type that it cannot be retained. 



VAR. pubescens, Stocks ms. ; softly hairy, corolla rather larger and spur rather 

 longer. This in hairiness resembles L. cabulica. 



2. X,. cabulica, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 270; pernf!, softly hirsute, 

 branches prostrate slender, leaves alternate petioled. J^^J ovate subhastate 



