Lancea.~\ cm. SCROPHULARINEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 261 



sunk amongst the leaves, pedicels very short, bracts lanceolate. Calyx-lobes acute. 

 Corolla f-1 in. long, blue, lower lip hairy within. Fruit the size of a pea, hardly 

 fleshy. Seeds brown. 



14 Z.INDENBERGIA, LeJim. 



Annual or perennial herbs, woody below ; branches erect, straggling or 

 ascending. Leaves opposite or the upper alternate, toothed. Flowers 

 axillary or spicate or racemed, bracteate, ebracteolate, yellow. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, 5-fid. Corolla-tube cylindric ; upper lip the outer, short, broad, 

 notched or 2-fid; lower larger, 3-lobed, spreading, base with two plaits. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anther-cells separate, stipitate, all with 

 pollen. Capsule 2-grooved, loculicidal ; valves entire, separating from the 

 placentiferous axis. Seeds numerous, minute. Species 8, African, Indian 

 and Malayan. 



1. Zi. grandiflora, Benth. Scropk. Ind. 22, and in DC. Prodr. x. 576; 

 softly hairy, subscandent, leaves petioled ovate acuminate coarsely serrate, 

 flowers secund in terminal lax-fld. spikes, calyx-lobes obtuse, ovary villoua. 

 Stemodia grandiflora, Ham. in Don Prodr. 89 ; Wall. Cat. 3924. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 2-6000 ft.; from Sirmore to Bhotan, abundant. 

 PEGU, Kurz. 



A rambling perennial, with flexuous stem and branches. Leaves 2-8 in., pubescent 

 on both surfaces ; nerves 6-8 pair ; petiole \-\\ in. Spikes 6-10 in., sometimes 

 panicled ; bracts -$ in., ovate, sessile or shortly petioled ; flowers 1 in. long, sessile or 

 very shortly pedicelled. Corolla pubescent, tube 3 times as long as the calyx. Capsule 

 ovoid, tip exserted. 



2. Zi. Hookeri, Clarice mss. ; glabrous except the inflorescence, sub- 

 scandent, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate, 

 flowers secund in terminal lax-fld. spikes, calyx-lobes acute, ovary glabrous. 

 Lindenbergia n. 3, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



. TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; foot of the outer hills, alt. 3-4000 ft. ; J. D. H., 

 Clarke. 



Habit of L. grandiflora, but more slender and nearly glabrous. Leaves 2-3 in., 

 base cuneate ; petiole \-\ in. Spikes 1-2 in., shortly peduncled, glandular, puberulous ; 

 bracts sessile, ovate, acute, about equalling the calyx ; lower flowers sometimes shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx cleft to the middle, teeth triangular. Corolla 1 in. long, glabrous 

 without, tube nearly straight, two to three times as long as the calyx ; upper lip 

 short, 2-fid ; lobes of lower rounded, crenate, densely pubescent within. Anther-cells 

 sausage-shaped, quite separate, pendulous from the top of the filament. 



3. Zi. philippensis, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 377; softly pubescent or 

 villous above, stout, strict, erect, leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, toothed, 

 flowers unilateral in rigid erect dense-fld. spikes or racemes, calyx longer 

 than the bracts, lobes ovate-lanceolate acuminate, ovary villous. ^ Stemodia 

 philippensis, Cham, in Linncea, iii. 5. Stemodia sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 99, and 

 Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 421. 



CHITTAGONG, Clarke. PEGU, Kurz. BURMA ; common about pagodas, Griffith. 

 TENASBERIM, Heifer, Loll. DISTRIB. Siam, China, Philippine Islands. 



Stem 2-3 ft Leaves 2-4 in., much produced below into a slender petiole about 

 half the length of the blade. Racemes or spikes 1 ft. and upwards ; rachis very stout ; 

 flowers shortly pedicelled or not ; bracts lanceolate. Calyx J in. long. Corolla - in., 

 pubescent. Capsule lanceolate, tip exserted. 



