Sibthorpia.] cm. SCROPHULARINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 289 



Hirsute all over with soft spreading hairs. Stems very slender, 4-8 in. long, 

 straggling, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 1-2 in. long, broadly oblong, or ovate, 

 membranous, segments 5-7 obovate-cuneate broadly adnate, tips crenate or lobulate 

 petiole 1-3 in. Pedicels equalling the petiole or longer or shorter, very slender'. 

 Calyx \ in., membranous, lobes ovate acute. Corolla % in. diam. ; lobes spathulate. 

 Fruit unknown. 



33. HEIKXPHRAGTOA, Wall. 



A prostrate diffuse pubescent herb. Leaves dimorphic ; cauline opposite,, 

 very shortly petioled, orbicular-cordate or -ovate, or reniform crenate ; those 

 on the branches fascicled, acicular, ciliate. Flowers axillary, sessile, rosy. 

 Sepals 5, narrow. Corolla-tube short, slender ; lobes 5, rounded, spreading, 

 subequal. Stamens 4, on the base of the corolla, equal, filaments short ; 

 a.nthers sagittate, tips of the cells confluent. Style short, stigma minute. 

 Fruit ovoid, fleshy, shining, at length septicidal, valves entire or 2-fid. 

 Seeds numerous, minute, ovoid, smooth. 



H. heterophyllum, Wall. Cat. 3895, and Tent. Fl. Nep. 16, t. 8, and 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 612 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 429. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA j from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 6-12,000 ft. &HASIA 

 MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Stems loosely tufted, creeping, 1-2 feet, very slender. Leaves on the stem ^-f in 

 diam., membranous, hairv on both surfaces; petiole T ' -^- in. ; those on the branches 

 forming tufts or heads, ^-^ in. long, rigid, acute, back convex, face deeply channelled. 

 Flowers usunlly sessile iu the tufts of the setaceous leaves, rarely of the cauline ones. 

 Corolla pink, 5 in. diam. Fruit black, polished, J in. diam. 



34. SCOPARXA, Linn. 



Branched glabrous or pubescent herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite 

 or whorled, entire or toothed, punctate. Flowers small, white yellow or 

 blueish, solitary or 2-nate, axillary, ebracteolate.. Sepals 4-5, imbricate in 

 bud. Corolla rotate, 4-fid, throat densely bearded ; lobes obtuse, subequal. 

 Stamens 4, subequal, filaments filiform; anthers subsagittate, cells distinct 

 parallel or diverging. Style subclavate, stigma notched or truncate; ovules 

 many. Capsule globose or ovoid, septicidal ; valves entire, membranous, 

 margins inflexed separating from the placentiferous axis. Seeds many, 

 obovoid, angled, scrobiculate. Species 5 or 6, all American. 



S. DULCIS, Linn.; Bentk. in DC. Prodr. x. 431; glabrous, leaves 

 lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate narrowed into a short petiole, sepals 4. 

 Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 699 ; Gaertn. Fruct. i. 251, t. 53, f. 10 ; Beauv. FL 

 Ow. Sf Ben. t. 115 ; Voigt Sort. Sub. Calc. 507. 



PLAINS OP BENGAL ; abundant, Clarke. DISTEIB. Tropics of America and 

 sporadically in Africa, Asia and Australia. 



A branching annual erect or ascending leafy herb 1-3 ft. high. Leaves opposite 

 and 3-nately whorled, variable in width. Flowers numerous ; pedicels \-\ in., slender 

 strict. Sepals oblong. Corolla $ in. diam., white. Capsule % in. diam., globose. 

 Though now superabundant Bengal plant according to Mr. Clarke, it wag unknown 

 in Roxburgh's time, and occurs in no Indian Herbarium except Clarke's. Voigt 

 mentions it (1845) as found about Serainpore, whence probably it has spread quite 

 recently. 



35. CAIUPViAHrTHUS, Roth. 



Shrnbs. Leaves alternate, linear, fleshy, quite entire. Flowers in terminal 



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