Ccntrantliera.\ cm. SCROPHULARIXE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 301 



or linear, obtuse, entire or toothed. Flowers axillary or in bracteate spikes 

 or racemes, 2-bracteolate. Calyx compressed, spathaceous, split on one 

 side ; lobes acute or acuminate, cohering or free. Corolla-tube long, 

 incurved, dilated above ; limb oblique; lobes 5, broad, subequal, spreading, 

 2 upper inner in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; anthers meeting 

 in pairs, cells transverse, bases spurred or mucrouate, one smaller often 

 empty. Stigma dilated, acute. Capsule ovoid or subglobose, loculicidal ; 

 valves entire, placentiferous in the middle. Seeds very numerous, oblong- 

 cuneate, testa lax, reticulate. Species 4, Indian, Malayan and Australian. 



1. C. grandiflora, Bentk. Scroph. Ind. 50, and in DC. Prodr. x. 52o; 

 erect, stout, scabrid, leaves oblong elliptic or narrowly linear, calyx 1 in. 

 oblong inflated acuminate, corolla yellow. Wall. Cat. 3880. 



SIKZIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., J. D. H.-, and KHASIA Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branched. Leaves sessile, 1-2 by -1 in., rigid. Flowers shortly 

 pedicelled. Calyx-segments subulate, cohering. Corolla 1^-2 in. long, limb 1 in. 

 diam. Filaments hairy. Capsule globose. 



2. C. Brunoniana, Bentk. Srropk. Ind. 50, and in DC. Prodr. x. 



525 ; erect, scabridly hispid, leaves linear-oblong, calyx in. oblong-acumi- 

 nate, corolla yellow. Wall. Cat. 3882. C. hispida, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 254, 

 the yellow-fld. plant. 



MARTABAN and TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, WallicTi, &c. DISTRIB. China. 

 Stem 12-18 in. Leaves J-2 in. Flowers shortly pedicelled. Corona 1 in. long, 

 limb ^ in. diam. 



3. C. hispida, Br. Prodr. 438 ; erect, hispid, hoary, leaves oblong or 

 linear-oblong, calyx in. ovoid acute, corolla purplish. Wall. PI. As. Rar. 

 i. 39, t. 45, and Cat. 3881 ; Bentk. in DC. Prodr. x. 525 ; Dalz. $[ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 182 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 707. C. nepalensis, Don Prodr. 

 88. Digitalis stricta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 99. Capraria rigida, Hb. Ham. 



Throughout INDIA; from the Punjab, and Kumaon, ascending to 4000ft., to 

 Canara, Bengal, Tenasserim and Burma. CEYLON, ascending to 3000ft. DISTRIB. 

 Java, China, Philippine Islands, Australia. 



Stem 1-2 ft. Leaves very variable, usually -1 in., and narrowly linear. Flowers 

 subsessile. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Filaments woolly. 



4. C. procumbens, Bentk. in DC. Prodr. x. 525; diffusely branched 

 from the base, rarely erect, hispid, leaves oblong or linear-oblong, calyx \ in. 

 ovoid-oblong acute, corolla purplish. C. Brunoniana, Thwaites jEnum. 220, 

 not of Bentk. 



DECCAN PENINSULA; from the Concan southwards. CEYLON, ascending to 

 3000 ft. 



-800^ apparently more than annual. Stems rarely simple, erect, 6-10 in., usually 

 wi-h straggling branches 4-8 in. long from the root. Leaves -1 by - in. 

 Flowers sessile. Corolla j- Lin. Possibly a variety of C. hispida, but the calyx is 

 much larger. 



5. C. humifusa, Wall. Cat. 3883 ; dwarf, diffusely branched from the 

 base, glabrous or hispidulous, leaves linear, calyx in. ovoid subacute, 

 corolla yellow. Bentk. in DC. Prodr. x. 525. Eazumovia tranquebarica, 

 Spre*0. Syst. ii. 812. Torenia lepidota, Koth Nov. Sp. 281. 



BENGAL and BEHAR; at Parusnath, Clarke. DECCAN PENINSULA ; at Tranquebar. 



