Oreosolen.~] cm. SCROPHULARINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 319 



to the thickened top of the filament, rounded, 1 -celled, included in the tube ; 

 staminode subulate, on the upper lip. Ovary small, ovate, compressed, 

 style long slender, stigma capitellate. 



1. O. Wattii, HooJc.f. in Hook. Ic. PL ined. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Jongri, alt. 14,000 ft., Watt. 



Stem about 1 in. long as thick as a crow-quill, sheathed by a pair of reduced 

 leaves. Leaves 1 in. long, quite glabrous, black when dry with translucent nerves 

 which run straight from and through the broad petiole and unite anastomosing near 

 the top and sides of the leaf. Flowers f in. long. Probably belongs to the tribe 

 VeronicecB. The specimens are very imperfect and difficult of analysis, owing to 

 their apparently fleshy texture. 



56. FALCONERIA, Hook.f. 



A. small scabigerous laxly hairy herb, with the habit of a Mazus. 

 Leaves radical, petioled, obovate or oblong, crenate. Flowers racemed, 

 bracteate, ebracteolate. Sepals 5, subequal, linear-obovate. Corolla 2-labiate, 

 tube short, decurved, upper lip 2-lobed, lower larger 3-lobed, one lateral 

 lobe exterior. Stamens 2, included, filaments straight; anthers 2 - celled ; 

 cells diverging, free below, united at the top. Ovary ellipsoid ; style short, 

 stigma capitellate. 



1. P. himalaica, Hook.f. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1438. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kumaon, Falconer ; Madhari Pass, alt. 8000 ft. , Strachey 

 <Sf Winterbottom (Mazus, No. 4). 



Rootstock short with thick fleshy fibres. Leaves 3-5 in. , more or less pubescent 

 on both surfaces, tip rounded, base crenate ; petiole broad, J-l| in. long, winged 

 above. Scape stout or slender, longer or shorter than the leaves, leafless, laxly 

 hairy, as is the short loose raceme ; bracts small, obovate-oblong or spathulate ; 

 pedicels short. Sepals ^ in. long. Corolla -% in. long; tube broadly funnel- 

 shaped, suddenly decurved above the base ; lower lip twice as long as the upper, lobes 

 obovate retuse. Style included. Apparently near Wulfenia, but differing in the 

 2-lipped corolla and included stamens. I have named it after the late Dr. Hugh 

 Falconer, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Botanical Garden of Saharumpore and 

 afterwards of Calcutta, to whom Falconeria, Royle, now included under Sapium, 

 was dedicated. 



ORDER CIV. OROBANCHACEJE. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Leafless brown annual white or reddish root-parasites. Stem usually 

 simple, stout or slender, scaly. Flowers solitary or in spikes or racemes, 

 irregular. Calyx spathaceous, or of 4-5 free or connate sepals. Corolla 

 hypogynous, tube curved ; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip arched, lower 3-fid, 

 throat often with 2 villous folds. Stamens 4, didynainous, inserted on the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers 1-2-celled, cells spurred at the base opening by slits 

 or basal pores, one often imperfect. Disk unilateral or glandular or 0. 

 Ovary of 2 connate carpels, 1- rarely 2-celled ; style lo'ng, tip curved, stigma 

 capitate 2-lobed ; ovules many, rarely few, anatropous on 2 (rarely more) 

 pairs of free or confluent parietal placentas which sometimes meet in the 

 centre of the ovary. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, few- or many-seeded. Seeds 

 minute, testa pitted or tubercled rarely lax and reticulated, albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo ovoid, undivided or 2-fid. DISTRIB. Genera 11, species about 150, 

 temperate and tropical. 



I have removed Lathrcea from this Order to Scrnphularinece (p. 317), and taken 

 Campbellia from the latter, uniting it with Christisunia. 



