VERBASCUM. ] SCROPHULARIACE^E. 139 



also in Afghanistan and extends to Britain. The plant has narcotio 

 properties, and the seeds are sometimes used for stupefying fish. 



2. CELSIA, Linn. ; PI. Brit. Ind. i?, 251. 



Annual or biennial herbs. Leaves alternate, crenate sinuate- 

 dentate or incised. Flowers in terminal simple or rarely branched 

 spikes or racemes. Calyx deeply 5-fid., lobes imbricate. Corolla 

 rotate, tube very short ; lobes 5, broad, somewhat unequal, the upper 

 outside in bud. Stamens 4, didynarnous or nearly equal, filaments 

 all woolly ; anthers transverse or oblique, with confluent tips. Ovary 

 2-celled, ovules many, style entire, stigma compressed, terminal. 

 Fruit a globose or ovoid septicidally 2-valved capsule, valves usually 

 2-fid. Seeds many, minute, transversely rugose, not winged. 

 Species about 40, extending from VV. Asia to Abyssinia, N. Africa 

 and S. Europe. 



C. coromandeliana, VcM Sumb. Bot. Hi, 79 ; Rwb. PL Ind. Hi, 100 ; 

 F.B.I, iv, 251] Watt E. D. ; Collett PL. Siml. 347 ; Prain Beng. PI. 

 757 ; CooTce Pi. Bomb . ii, 281. 



An ereot pubescent annual herb. Stem 2-3 ft. high, glandular above. 

 Radical leaves petioled, crowded, 2-4 in. long, lyrate-pinnatifld ; the 

 large terminal lobe usually oblong, obtuse, toothed; cauline sessile, 

 smaller, and passing upwards into bracts, oblong-ovate, cordate, toothed, 

 hairy on both sides. Flowers in simple or branched terminal 

 racemes which are 1-2 ft. 1'onsr, pedicels - in. long ; bracts shorter, 

 ovate. Calyx shorter than the pedicels, deeply divided ; segments 

 linear-oblong, sabaoute, entire or serrulate. Corolla % inch across, 

 yellow. Filaments all densely bearded with purple hairs. Capsule 

 i~k in. in diam., sub-globose, glabrous. Seeds obloag, truncate, 

 verrucose. 



Frequent within the area and often as a weed in cultivated ground, flower- 

 ing in the plains during the cold season. DISTRIB. : Throughout India 

 from the Punjab to Ceylon, ascending to 5,000 ft. on the Himalaya, 

 extending to Afghanistan, Burma and China. The juice of this plant 

 is used for dysentery and also as a sedative. 



3. LINARIA, Juss.; Fl. Brifc. Ind. iv, 251. 



Herbs. Leaves usually opposite, or whorled below and alternate 

 above. Flowers axillary, solitary or passing into terminal racemes 

 or spikes with the floral leaves reduced to bracts. Calyx 5-partite, 

 segments imbricate. Corolla 2-lipped and personate, tube spurred 



