Veronica.] cm. SCROPHULARINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 293 



Bentham describes the fruit of the latter as obovate emarginate, but in Kirghis 

 specimens it is oblong and notched at the top. 



5. V. lanugrinosa, Benth. mss.-, densely woolly, steins very short, leaves 

 sessile imbricate orbicular or upper broadly ovate quite entire, flowers in 

 sessile terminal woolly heads, sepals 4 oblong subacute, corolla-lobes spathu- 

 late upper orbicular much larger and broader than the others, capsule 

 elliptic notched. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Samdong, alt. 16,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stem simple, 2-3 in. high, clothed with imbricating leaves and woolly hair?. 

 Leaves % in. diam., equally woolly on both surfaces. Flowers small amongst the 

 upper bracteal leaves. Sepals | in. long. Corolla in. diam. Capsule equalling 

 the sepals, pubescent. Seeds few, large, oblong, plano-convex. A very singular 

 species. 



** Capsule somewhat compressed laterally, turgid, orbicular, rarely in 

 F". Anagallis broadly ovate. Seeds biconvex. 



6. V. Anag-allis, Linn.\ Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 467; glabrous, 

 rarely pubescent, erect, succulent, leaves sessile or lowest petioled oblong 

 oblong-lanceolate or linear- oblong entire or serrate base usually cordate, 

 racemes long axillary, pedicels spreading. Reichb. If. Fl. Germ. t. 1762; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 437. Y. undulata, Wall. Cat. 406, and in Roxb. FL 

 Ind. ed. Carey $ Watt. i. 147. Veronica sp., Griff. Notul. iv. 126, and Ic. 

 PL Asiat. t. 419, f . 2. 



N.W. INDIA; from the plains of the Punjab to Western Tibet, and from Kashmir 

 to Bhotan, ascending to 9000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 15,000 in Tibet. BENGAL, the 

 KHASIA MTS. and ASSAM. The DECCAN PENINSULA, in the Concan only. DISTRIB. 

 Europe, Asia, !N". and S. Africa, N. America. 



Perennial. Stem creeping below, from 6-18 in. high, and from the thickness of a 

 sparrow's quill to that of the middle finger. Leaves 2-6 by - in. (1 in. broad and 

 ovate-cordate in a Kuuawur specimen). Racemes 3-6 in., slender, lax-fld.; bracts 

 linear-oblong, shorter than the pedicels, which are usually longer than the calyx. 

 Sepals ^-\ in. long, subacute. Corolla -^ in. diam., pink or purplish. Capsule 

 |- in. diam., broadly ovate in some Tibetan specimens. Seeds ovoid or oblong, 

 biconvex. 



VAR. oxycarpa ; capsules subacute longer than the sepals. V. oxycarpa, Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 438. Kunawur, alt. 9000 ft., Thomson. Persia, Afghanistan. 



VAB. punctata; dwarf, leaves all petioled ovate serrate or the upper only linear- 

 oblong sessile amplexicaul. V. punctata, Ham. in Don Prodr. 93 ; Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. x. 468, in part. Nepal, Hamilton ; Bengal at Beauleah and Malda, Clarke. 

 Benares, Wall. I think there is no doubt of this being a form of V. Anagallis, 

 Assam specimens of which and others have similar lower leaves. The Cabul punctata 

 of Bentham is, as Boissier has pointed out, nothing but F. Anagallis ; and his var. ft 

 extensa is a luxuriant state of the same with larger bracts, sepals, &c. 



VAR. montioides, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 437 ; dwarf, slender, stems often simple, 

 leaves ovate or oblong, racemes few few-fld. V. pusilla, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 

 468 Western Tibet, Thomson. Affghanistan. The Herbarium specimens seem to be 

 partly dwarf forms and partly seedlings of V. Anagallis. 



7. V. Beccabung a, Linn. ; Benth in DC. Prodr. x. 468 ; glabrous or 

 puberulous, decumbent, succulent, leaves sessile or shortly petioled elliptic 

 or oblong obtuse crenate-serrate base rounded, racemes axillary tew- or 

 many-flowered, pedicels spreading. Eeichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 1701; -Voiss. 

 FL Orient, iv. 438. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir and Rawul Pindee, Aitchison, to Kunawur, 

 Thomson. WESTERN TIBET, alt. 9-12,000 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. Affghanistan to 

 Europe, N. Africa (Abyssinia), N. Asia to Japan. 



