Micrargeria.] cm. SCROPHULARINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 



46. 1VIICRARGERIA, Benth. 



Eigid, scabrid, erect herbs, black when dry. Leaves alternate, or the 

 lower opposite, linear, entire or 3-multifid. Flowers small, in the upper 

 axils, or in long terminal spikes, bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Calyx cam- 

 panulate or hemispheric ; teeth 5, broad. Corolla-tube exserted, dilated 

 above, often incurved ; lobes 5, broad, spreading, entire, subequal, 2 upper 

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

 pairs, cells distinct subequal attached by their tips, base obtuse. Stigma 

 thickened, obtuse. Capsule small, globose, loculi- and septi-cidal ; valves 4, 

 separating from 2 small globose placentas. Seeds numerous, oblong-cuneate, 

 testa lax. Species 2, a W. African and Indian. 



M. Wig-htii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 509 ; lower leaves pinnatisect, 

 segments few filiform. Wight Ic. t. 1417. 



SOUTH DECCAN PENINSULA ; Wight, &c. 



Annual, 8-18 in. high. Stem naked below, fastigiately branched above ; branches 

 long, slender, erect. Leaves J in., in scattered fascicles, cut into almost filiform 

 spreading 1 segments ^-| in. long ; upper filiform, entire. Spikes very long and 

 slender; flowers distant, subsessile; bracts filiform, longer than the calyx; bracteoles 

 linear. Calyx T ' 3 in., hemispheric ; teeth triangular. Corolla-tube ^ in. long, incurved, 

 pubescent, limb as broad. Capsule in. diam. enclosed in the calyx. 



47. X.EPTORHABDOS, SchrenJc. 



Erect, annual, glabrous or glandular-pubescent, twiggy herbs. Stem 

 4-angled. Leaves opposite below, alternate above, linear, entire or laciniate 

 or pinnatisect, upper smaller. Flowers small, axillary, and in interrupted 

 very slender racemes, bracteate, ebracteolate. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 

 5-toothed or -fid. Corolla-tube short ; lobes 5, subequal, spreading, broad, 

 entire or notched, 2 upper inner in bud. Stamens 4, didynamons, shorter 

 than the corolla; anthers free, cells parallel equal not spurred. Stigma 

 shortly dilated, obtuse ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule compressed above 

 at right angles to the septum, obtuse, loculicidal ; valves entire, septiferous. 

 Seeds 1-2 in each cell, laterally attached, oblong or angled, rugose. 

 Species 4 or 5, Central Asiatic and 1ST. Indian. 



1. Xi. Benthamiana, Walp. Rep. iii. 387 ; glabrous, inflorescence 

 glandular-puberulous, leaves pinnatisect, segments linear or filiform, calyx- 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate. L. virgata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 510; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 470. L. parviflora, Benth. I. c. Gerardia parviflora, Wall. Cat. 

 3888 ; Benth. Scroph. Ind. 48. Dargeria pinnatifida, Dene, in Jacq. Toy. 

 Bot. 116. 



TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 5-11,000 ft., 

 Falconer, &c. WESTERN TIBET ; Dras, alt. 10,000 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. 

 Afghanistan, Persia. 



Stem 1-2 ft., slender or rather stout, naked below, simple or fastigiately branched 

 above ; branches strict, erect, very slender. Leaves 1-3 in., sometimes cut to the 

 base into subequal filiform segments, in others ovate or lanceolate and regularly pm- 

 uatisect; segments linear and entire or subpinnatifid. Racemes very slender, very 

 many-fld. ; pedicels -^ in- ; bracts linear, longer or shorter than the pedicels. Calyx 

 | in lobes lanceolate or triangular-ovate, acute, 5-ribbed in fruit. Corolla variable 

 in size, about twice as long as the calyx ; limb in. diam. Capsule in., as long as 

 the calyx. I can find no difference between the authentically named specimens of L. 



