260 cm. SCKOPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \Mazus. 



TEMPEBATE and SUBTEOPTCAL HIMALAYA, and Plains of NOETHEEN INDIA ; from 

 Kashmir to Bhotan, ascending to 7000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. BUBMA, 

 Wallich. UPPEE ASSAM, Griffith. SOANE RIYEB, J. D. H DISTEIB. Affghanis- 

 tau, Java, China, Japan, Philippine Islds. 



Annual, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Radical leaves numerous, 1-3 in. long, in- 

 cluding the petiole, which is rarely as long as the blade, coarsely irregularly crenate- 

 toothed. Flowering. stems numerous from the root, 2-10 in. long, leafless or with 

 alternate spathulate leaves. Racemes l^fi-in., pedicels \-\ in. Calyx in fruit |-f in. 

 diam. Corolla \-\ in. long, blue. Seeds exceedingly minute, pale. Roxburgh's 

 Columnea tomentosa, referred here by Bentharn, can hardly be this. 



2. M. surculosus, Don Prodr. 86; runners rooting with opposite 

 leaves, radical leaves obovate-spathulate coarsely crenate and often subpin- 

 natifid at the base narrowed into a short petiole, pedicels mostly bracteate, 

 calyx-lobes ^ as long as the tube short obtuse or subacute suberect in fruit. 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 375; Wall. Cat. 3912; ? Wight Ic. t. 1467. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA; from Kunawar to Bhotan, alt. 3-7000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 4-5000 ft. ? NILGHIEI MTS., Schmidt, HohenacJcer, &. Thomson. 



In its ordinary state very different from M. rugosus in the shorter racemes, the 

 often pinnatifid leaf-bases, bracts and calyx ; but small specimens of either are diffi- 

 cult to distinguish. The Nilghiri specimens are very small and dense, without runners 

 or bracts, but they have the short-lobed calyx of M. surculosus ; they may prove 

 specifically different. The figure in Wight's Icones represents the calyx very incor- 

 rectly. 



3. BX. dentatus, Wall. Cat. 3914; runners 0, radical leaves long- 

 petioled elliptic- oblong or ovate sinuate, pedicels bracteate, calyx-lobes 3- the 

 length of the tube rounded ovate or triangular obtuse or acute suberect in 

 fruit. BentJi. Scroph. Ind. 27, and in DC. Prodr. x. 375. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 8000 ft., Strach. $ Winterl.-, Nepal, 

 Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 6-8000 ft., J. D. H., Treutler. KHASIA MTS. ; Nunklow, 

 alt. 5000 ft., Simons. 



Glabrous or sparsely hairy. RootstocTc perennial. Leaves 1-4 in., base acute 

 rounded or subcordate ; petiole |-3 in. Flowering branches or scapes 3-6 in., erect 

 or decumbent, slender, few-fid., leafless. Flowers distant, \-\ in. long ; pedicels |~^ 

 in. ; bracts setaceous. Calyx -| in. long, lobes sometimes longer and acute as in 

 M. rugosus. Seeds twice as large as in M. rugosus, black. 



13. LANCEA, Hoolc.f. $ Thorns. 



A small glabrous herb. Leaves radical and opposite, obovate-oblong or 

 spathulate, quite entire. Flowers in a very short terminal few-fld. raceme, 

 pedicels bracteate. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla-tube dilated above ; 

 upper lip suberect, concave, 2-lobed; lower large, spreading, 3-lobed, palate 

 2-coavex. Stamens 4, didynamous, subexserted; anther-cells diverging. 

 Style filiform, stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit globose, indehiscent, exserted. 

 Seeds numerous, small, subglobose, testa thin. 



Zi. tibetica, HooJc.f. Sf Thorns, in Hook. Keiv Journ. ix. 244, t. 7. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA and WESTEEN TIBET; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 11- 

 16,000 ft., Thomson, &c. 



Rootstock slender, horizontal, creeping. Leaves rosulate, or opposite on a very 

 short stem 1-4 in. high, l-3 in. long, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a J-amplexi- 

 caul petiole |-1 in. long, rather coriaceous, sometimes very obscurely toothed, flowers 



