140 SCKOPRULAEIACE3E. [ LMTABIA. 



in front at the base ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 

 3-lobed, throat usnally closed by the tumid palate. Stamens 

 didynamous, ascending, included ; anther-cells distinct, parallel. 

 Style filiform, stigma minute. Fruit an ovoid or globose 2-celled, 

 capsule, each cell or the anterior only opening by an apical pore. 

 Seeds angled, rugose wingless or discoid and winged. Species about 

 150, chiefly in temperate regions of the world. 



L. ramosissima, Wall. PI. As. Ear. it, 43, *. 153; Eoyle III. 290; 

 F. B. I. iv, 251 ; Watt E. D. ; Collett FL Siml. 347 ; Prain Beng. PI. 757 ; 

 Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 282. Toad-flax. 



A glabrous or slightly pubescent perennial herb, often much branched 

 from the rootstock; branches slender, 1-2 ft. long, usually prostrate and 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, petioled, very variable in size and 

 breadth, glabrous or the lowermost somewhat pubescent; lower 5-7 

 lobed, triangular-hastate ; upper usually lanceolate, with acute diverg- 

 ing basal lobes; petioles filiform, |-| in. long. Flowers on slender 

 axillary ^usually solitary ebracteate pedicels longer than the petioles. 

 Calyx % in. long, hairy but often glabrous wben in fruit ; segments 

 linear-lanceolate, the margins membranous towards the base. Corolla 

 (including spur) nearly | in. long, yellow, hairy outside ; spur straight 

 obtuse, shorter than the tube; lobes of both lips oblong, obtuse. 

 Filaments somewhat pubescent. Style stout. Seeds small echinulate. 



On walls and rocks within the drier portions of the area, common in the 

 Jumna and Chambal ravines in the districts of Agra and Etawah 

 also in Bundelkband. Flowers during the cold season. DISTRIB. : 

 Throughout India in the plains and up to 5,000 ft. in Kumaon, extend- 

 ing to Afghanistan and Upper Burma. 



4. ANTIRRHINUM, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 253. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire or lobed, lower opposite, 

 upper alternate. Flowers solitary and axillary or passing into 

 terminal racemes with bract-like floral leaves. Calyx 5-partite, 

 seg-ments imbricate. Corolla 2-lipped and personate ; tube com- 

 pressed, eaccate in front at the base ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower 

 spreading, 3-lobed; palate broad, bearded, closing the throat. 

 Stamens didynamous; anther-cells distinct, parallel. Style filiform, 

 stigma 2-lobed. Fruit an ovoid or globose capsule, each cell open- 

 ing by one pore, or the posterior by a pair of toothed pores. Seeds 

 many, minute, oblong, rugose or pitted. Species about 35, in tem- 

 perate regions of the northern hemisphere, chiefly in N. America. 



A, Orontinm, Linn. 8p. PL 617; Eoyle HI. 290: F.B.I, iv, 253; 

 Collett Fl. 8iml> 348. Corn Snapdragon. 



