Veronica.] cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 297 



Perennial. Branches 3-10 in., ascending. Leaves J-J in., rather coriaceous. 

 Racemes 1-4 in. ; lower bracts leaf-like, upper narrow. Sepals |- in., obovate- 

 oblong, ciliate, shorter than the corolla. Corolla | in. diam., white or lilac. 



TRIBE VIII. GERARDIEJE. 

 40. AX.ECTRA, Thunb. 



Erect, rigid, usually scabrid herbs, black when dry. Leaves opposite or 

 the upper (rarely all) alternate, toothed (reduced to scales in A. Thomsoni}. 

 Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes, solitary in the axils of bracts, 

 2-bracteolate, upper crowded, yellow, or streaked with red or brown. Calyx 

 campanulate, subfoliaceous, 5-toothed or -fid, lobes valvate or open in bud. 

 Corolla-tube broad ; limb oblique ; lobes 5, spreading, the lower outer in 

 bud. Stamens 4, didynamous ; anthers touching in pairs, naked or bearded, 

 cells parallel, bases mucronate. Style long, inflexed, stigma elongate tongue- 

 shaped. Capsule subglobose, loculicidal, valves entire or 2-fid. Seeds very 

 numerous, minute, linear, testa very lax reticulate, nucleus small. Species 

 14, tropical American, African and Indian. 



1. A. indica, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 339 ; scaberulous, leaves sessile 

 or shortly petioled ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate coarsely toothed base 

 cnneate rarely cordate, bracts longer than the sessile flowers. A. cordata, 

 Benth. in DC. 1. c. (the Himalayan specimen]. Hymenospermum denta- 

 tum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3963. Glossostyles arvensis, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 49. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 3-9000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. BEHAR ; top of Parusnath, Anderson, &c. AVA, Wallich. DISTRIB. 

 Mauritius. 



Stem 6-18 in., naked below, simple, or branched above. Leaves \-\\ in., sparingly 

 coarsely toothed. Spikes pubescent, 3-6 in. ; flowers crowded ; bracteoles ciliate. 

 Calyx \ in. long. Corolla $ in. long, yellow, lobes rounded subequal. Filaments 

 ciliate; anthers yellow. Capsule shorter than the calyx, subglobose, 4-lobed. Seeds 

 linear, nucleus very small in the centre of the transparent sausage-shaped testa. 



2. A.? Thomson!, Hook.f.\ slender, leaves scale-like, flowers race- 

 mose, bracts minute. 



BEHAR; on Parusnath, alt. 3000ft., parasitic on a Strolilanthes, Thomson. 



A very singular plant, resembling the S. African A. orobanchoides, Benth. Stern rigid 

 but flexuous, 6-15 in. high, simple or branched at the rootstock, hardly scaberulous. 

 Leaves represented by a few scattered scales ^-\ in. long, the largest oblong, obtuse. 

 Racemes 6-10 in., lax-fld. ; bracts minute ; pedicels |-^ in., slender. Calyx, fruiting 

 hemispheric, \ in. diam. ; lobes broadly triangular. Capsule globose, as long as the 

 calyx. Seeds as in A. indica, but more minute and elongate-cuneiform. 



41. BUCHNERA, Linn. 



Kigid annual herbs, black when dry. Leaves, lower opposite, broad; 

 upper alternate, narrow. Flowers sessile, axillary, or in bracteate spikes, 

 2-bracteolate. Calyx tubular, 10-nerved, sometimes 5-ribbed, 5-toothed. 

 Corolla -tube slender; lobes 5, flat, subequal, spreading. 2 upper inner in 

 bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers 1-celled, vertical, dorsi- 

 fixed, bases obtuse, connective sometimes mucronate. Style thickened or 

 clavate above, stigma entire or notched. Capsule oblong, locuhcid al ; 

 valves coriaceous, entire, septiferous, separating from the placentas. Seeds 



