An'irrhirwm.'] cm. SCROPHULARINEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 253 



6. ANTIRRHINUM, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire or lobed, lower opposite, upper 

 alternate. Flowers solitary and axillary or racemed. Sepals 5, imbricate, 

 Corolla compressed, base saccate ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 

 3-lobed ; palate broad, bearded, closing- the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 

 anther-cells distinct, parallel. Style filiform, stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid or 

 globose ; cells many-seeded, anterior opening by one pore, posterior by 2 toothed 

 pores, or both opening by one pore. Seeds minute, oblong, truncate, rugose or 

 pitted. Species 25, of northern temperate regions. 



The common Snapdragon (A. majus, L.) is stated (Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 291) 

 to be subspontaneous in India, but I have seen no specimens. 



1. A. Orontium, Linn.-, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 290; annual or 

 biennial, slender, erect, leaves linear, flowers axillary subsessile, sepals longer 

 than the corolla. JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 385. A. gibbosum, Wall. PL As. Rar. 

 ii. 44, and Cat. 3854. 



PUNJAB PLAIN and WESTERN HIMALAYA, ascending to 4000 ft. (an escape in the 

 Nilgherries). DISTBIB. Westwards to N. Africa and Britain. 



Annual or biennial. 



Stem 618 in., usually glabrous below and glandular above, branched from the 

 base. Leaves 1-2 in., very narrow, rarely oblong-lanceolate. Flowers - f in., rose- 

 purple. Sepals very narrow, spreading. Capsule % in., pubescent. Seeds com- 

 pressed, face concave, back keeled, margins thickened. 



7. SCROFHUX.ARXA, L. 



Annual or perennial, often foetid herbs. Leaves opposite or the upper 

 alternate, often pellucidly dotted. Flowers in panicled or thyrsoid cymes, 

 greenish-purple or yellow. Sepals 5. Corolla-tube globose or ovoid, tumid ; 

 lobes 5, short, flat; 4 upper erect, lower spreading. Stamens 4, declinate, 

 didynamous, 5th rudimentary or ; anther-cells adnate to the filament, con- 

 fluent, bursting transversely. Disc oblique. Style slender, stigma notched. 

 Capsule ovoid, acute or beaked, septicidal. Seeds many or few, ovoid, more or 

 less rugose. Species about 120, of northern temperate regions. 



* Cymes contracted, dense-fid. Upper coi'olla-lobes short, subequal. Stamens 

 included. Leaves broad, entire, ovate or ovate-cordate, petiole not appendaged, 

 nerves distinct. 



1. S. pauciflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 17, and in DC. l*rodr. x. 302 ; 



glabrous or sparsely pubescent, leaves long-petioled ovate-cordate coarsely 

 toothed, flowers crowded in distant leafless cymes, sepals ovate acute shorter 

 than the capsule, stamens included, staminode 0. 



CENTRAL AND EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 10-13,000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c. 



nerves 

 shortly 

 ovoid, acute. Seeds oblong. 



2. S. calycina, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 18, and in DC Prodr. x. 304; 

 glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, leaves shortly petioled ovate or cordate- 

 ovate acute coarsely toothed, flowers crowded in approximate leafless cymes, 



