WulfeniaJ] cm. SCROPHULARINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 291 



orenate. Flowers bracteate, blue, spicate on radical scapes, secund, ebracteo- 

 late. Sepals narrow. Corolla-tube cylindric ; lobes 4, erecto-patent, upper 

 2-fid, lower entire or crenate. Stamens 2, inserted between the upper lobes, 

 exserted ; anther-cells divergent, tips confluent. Stigma capitate. Capsule 

 acute, septi- and loculi-cidal, margins of valves inflexed separating from the 

 placentiferous axis. Seeds many, ovoid, concavo-convex ; testa lax, smooth. 

 Species 4, one Carinthian, the others W. Asiatic and Himalayan. 



W. Amherstiana, Benth. ScropL Ind. 46, and in DC. Prodr. x. 

 455 ; nearly glabrous, leaves obovate-oblong or -spathulate coarsely crenate 

 or lobnlate base narrowed subpinnatifid, racemes long slender very many- 

 fld., sepals lanceolate or setaceous, corolla-lobes narrow. Pasderota Amhers- 

 tiana, Wall. Cat. 410. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 7-11,000 ft. DISTEIB. 

 Afghanistan. 



RootstocJc long 1 , as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 2-5 in., midrib puberulous or 

 subhirsute beneath ; petiole -! in., sometimes hairy. Scapes 5-10 in., slender, 

 glabrous or sparsely pubescent, naked or with setaceous deciduous bracts. Flowers 

 horizontal ; pedicels shorter than the calyx ; bracts setaceous, equalling the pedicels or 

 longer. Calyx $ in., glabrous. Corolla ^ in., lobes lanceolate, acute. Style filiform, 

 far exserted. 



38. CAXiORHABDOS, Benth. 



Herbs with a perennial stock and tall stems, leaves alternate, serrate. 

 Floivers in dense bracteate axillary and terminal spikes, ebracteolate. Sepals 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla-tube incurved; lobes 4, erecto-patent, entire, 

 3 lower smaller, one or both lateral exterior in bud. Stamens 2, exserted; 

 anther-cells parallel, at length diverging, obtuse, tips confluent. Style 

 filiform, stigma slender. Capsule acute, septi- and loculi-cidal; valves 4, with 

 in flexed margins, separating from a placentiferous column. Seeds numerous, 

 minute, testa appressed. Species 3, a Chinese, a Japanese and a Hima- 

 layan. 



C. Srunoniana, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 44, and in DC. Prodr. x. 456; 

 erect, leaves sessile lanceolate subserrulate, spike terminal elongate very 

 slender and very dense-fld. Yaleriana (Veronica, p. 23) Brunoniana, Wall. 

 Cat. 405 ; Y. ? alternifolia, Wall. mss. 



NEPAT,, Wallich. 



Stem erect, subsimple, stout, nearly glabrous, 1-2 ft. (or more ?) Leaves upper alone 

 known, 3-4 by 1-1| in., long acuminate, base narrowed. Splices subseesile, 6-10 in., 

 erect, flexuous, glabrous or pubescent; flowers imbricate; bracts small, lanceolate. 

 Sepals T ' 5 in. Corolla -| in., tube rather broad, lobes short. Capsule as long as 

 the calyx. 



39. VERONICA, Linn. 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Leaves opposite, rarely scattered or cauline 

 alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary, or in terminal or axillary bracteate 

 racemes, ebracteolate, never yellow. Calyx 4-5 partite, the lower segments 

 connate, upper if present smaller. Corolla rotate, or tube cylindric; lobes 

 4-5, spreading, lateral, the outer in bud, upper and lower usually narrowest. 

 Stamens 2, exserted; anther-cells parallel or not, obtuse, tips confluent. 

 Stigma subcapitate; ovules many, rarely 2 in each cell. Ctf^ww/e2-grooved, 

 compressed or turgid, dehiscence various. Seeds few or many, ovate or 

 globose, plano-concave or boat- shaped, smooth or mgulose, sometimes 

 winged. Species about 160, rare in the tropics and in America. 



