SUTEEA.] SCROPKULARIACEJS. 141 



An erect herb, 6-18 in. high. Stem much branched from the base, more or 

 less glandular-hairy above. Leaves 1-2 in. long, sub-sessile, linear or 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire. Flowers in. long, pale-pink streaked with 

 purple. Sepals narrow, speading, longer than the corolla. Capsule $ in. 

 long, pubescent. Seeds compressed, concave on one face, back keeled, 

 margins thickened. 



Common within the area, in cornfields. Flowers during the cold season. 

 DISTRIB.: Punjab Plain, Salt Kange and W. Himalaya up to 6,000ft., 

 mostly in cultivated ground, extending to N. Africa, Europe and the 

 Canaries. 



5. SUTERA, Roth; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 258. 



Annual or perennial herbs, or small shrubs, glabrous pubescent 

 or sometimes viscid. Leaves opposite or the upper often alternate, 

 pinnatifid toothed or subentire. Flowers axillary or in terminal 

 usually simple racemes ; bracts small, leafy, not aduate to the 

 pedicels. Calyx usually 5 -partite ; lobes narrow, more or less imbri- 

 cate in bud. Corolla tubular, not spurred ; tube slender, cylindric 

 or funnel-shaped, straight or somewhat curved, throat dilated or 

 not ; lobes 5, subequal, obtuse, imbricate in bud, the 2 upper outside 

 in bud and rather smaller than the 3 lower. Stamens 4, didyna- 

 mous, included ; anthers 1-celled by confluence. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style filiform. Fruit an ovoid-oblong septicidal capsule, valves 

 bifid. Seeds many, rugose. Species about 120, chiefly in S. Africa. 



S. glandulosa, Roth. Nov. 8p. 291; P. B.I.iv, 253: Prain Beng. PI. 

 759 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 285. 



A diffuse or sub-erect glandular-pubescent annual, branched from or 

 near the base, branches 6-12 in. long. Leaves shortly petioled, -f in. 

 long, ovate in outline, pinnatifid, the segments more or less deeply 

 toothed. Flowers nearly sessile, solitary in the axils, or the uppermost 

 in racemes. Calyx T -| i n - long ; segments linear-oblong, subacute. 

 Corolla white, about twice as long as the calyx, glabrous ; lobes 

 subequal, oblong-obtuse. Capsules % in. long, viscid-pubescent or 

 glabrous. Seeds minute, yellowish. 



Common in the tracts of the Jumna ravines, and in the black soil of 

 Bundelkhacd. Flowers in Jan. and Feb. DISTBIB. : From Behar and 

 Eajputana to the Deccan and S. India, extending to Arabia, Nubia and 

 Egypt. 



6. MONIERA, B. Juss. 



UNDER HEBPESTIS IN FL. BEIT. IND. iv, 272. 



Glabrous herbs. Leaves often punctate, entire or toothed, or 

 multifid when submerged. J?lowers axillary or in racemes, yellow 

 blue or white, bracteoles small or none. Calyx 5-partite ; segments 



