EuphrasiaJ] cm. SCROPHULARINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 305 



matifid. Flowers in terminal spikes with large often acutely cut bracts, 

 ebracteolate. Calyx tubular or campannlate ; lobes 4, equal or connate in 

 pairs, rarely with a^inute 5th tooth. Corolla 2-lipped, tube dilated above : 

 upper lip erect, concave, 2-lobed, margins replicate ; lower larger, not plaited 

 below, 3-lobed, lobes spreading, obtuse or notched. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 

 anthers beneath the upper lip, cells distinct, parallel, base equally or 

 unequally mucronate or spurred. Stigma dilated, entire or with a small 

 dorsal tooth. Capsule oblong, compressed, loculicidal ; valves septiferous, 

 separating from the placentiferous column. Seeds numerous (rarely few), 

 pendulous, oblong, grooved. Species about 20, of cool regions. 



E. officinalis, Linn. ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 552; annual, pubes- 

 cent or glabrate, leaves sessile ovate or ovate-cordate deeply crenate-serrate, 

 bracts like the leaves, anthers hairy, cells of posticous ones unequally 

 spurred. Bois*. Fl. Orient, iv. 472; Reichl). Ic. Fl. Germ. xx. t. 1731,2. 

 E. tartarica, Fisch. in Sprenq. SystM. 777 ; Ledeb. Ic. Fl. Ross. t. 435. E. 

 depauperate, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3886. E. simplex, Don Prodr. 95. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 4-13,000 ft. ; Sikkim.alt. 

 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H. DISTKIB Afghanistan and N. Persia to Europe, N. Central 

 and East Asia to Japan, N. America. 



Stem wiry, 6-18 in., simple or sparingly or fastigiately branched, often naked 

 below; branches slender, erect. Leaves - in., distant or imbricating, nerves 

 strong. Spikes continuous with the foliage, sbort or long, obtuse, few- or many-fld. 

 Flowers very small ; bracts imbricating. Calyx about equalling the bracts ; lobes 

 acute. Corolla -J in. long, white or lilac, with purple veins. Anfhers brown. 

 Capsule included in the calyx or exserted. Very variable, attaining a much larger 

 size in the Himalaya than in Europe, and being more constant in foliage. Bentham 

 distinguishes two Himalayan varieties ; E. tartarica, with almost orbicular leaves, 

 remote, subacute bracts, and small corollas hardly exserted from the bracts, and E. 

 vulqaris, with ovate or oblong obtusely crenate cauline leaves, sharply serrate bracts, 

 and corolla of very variable size. These, which are both widely distributed in Europe 

 and Asia, present no constant characters in India. 



50. E1VI1VIENOSPER1VIU1VI, Clarke. 



(See 48, Phtheirospermum.) 



51. BARTSXA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, entire crenate serrate or 

 incised. Flowers axillary, spicate or racemose, bracteate, ebracteolate. 

 Calyx tubular or campanula te, 4-fid. Corolla 2-lipped ; tube slender, 

 straight or incurved; upper lip erect, concave, entire or notched, margins 

 not replicate ; lower convex or bigibbous at the base, lobes 3 spreading. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous ; anthers under the upper lip, cells distinct equal 

 parallel, bases usually spurred. Stigma obtuse or capitate. Capsule locu- 

 licidal to the middle or higher; valves entire, placentiferous. Seeds 

 numerous, pendulous or horizontal, smooth grooved or winged. Species 

 about 60, in cool and mountain localities. 



B. Odontites, Suds., Fl. Angl. 268; annual, erect, scabridly pub- 

 escent, leaves sessile lanceolate sparingly serrate, spikes subsecund, 

 lower bracts leafy. Beiclib. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1727. Odontites rubra, Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 551. 0. serotina, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 476. EupLrasia 

 Odontites, Linn. E. rubra, Pers. Syn. ii. 150. 



KASHMIR, alt. 7-8000 ft., Clarice. DISTEIB. Westwards to Europe and N. 

 Africa ; N. and Central Asia to Japan ? 



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