STEIGA. ] SCROPR ULARIACE&. 157 



An erect scabrid or strigoae herb, 6-18 in. high. Stem simple or branched, 

 stout or slender, rootstock not tuberous. Leaves sessile, erect, -1$ in. 

 long, linear, acute, passing into floral bracts. Flowers in slender 

 spikes, bracts longer than the calyx ; bracteoles linear, acute, ciliate. 

 Calyx % in. long, lengthening in fruit, 5-ribbed ; teeth lanceolate- 

 subulate, ciliate. Corolla white ; tube nearly in. long, incurved above 

 the middle, throat hairy within, limb about i in. across, upper lip 

 much shorter than lower. Capsule g in. long, oblong-obovoid, included 

 within the calyx. 

 Saharanpur (Eoyle), banks of Ganges near Benares ("Madden). Flowers 



during the rains and the cold season. DISTRIB.: N. Bengal and from 



Gujarat, Konkan and the Deccau southwards. 



3. S. lutea, Lour.. PL Cochinch. 22 ; F. B. I. iv, 299 ; Collett Fl. 8iml. 

 358; Prain Beng.Pl. 775; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 303. Buchnera asiatica, 

 Linn; Roxb. Fl. I/id. Hi, 31. 



A slender erect herb, 6-18 in. high, simple or fastigiately branched, scabrid 

 or villoue. Leaves sessile, ^-1 in. long, linear, rough. Flowers in 

 elongated usually interrupted spikes 2-6 in. long ; bracts usually longer 

 than the calyx. 'Calyx 10-ribbed, in. long, narrowly tubular in flower, 

 widening in fruit; teeth 5, subequal. Corolla about in. long, usually 

 yellow or sometimes white pink or purple ; tube slender, cylindric, 

 incurved at the apex ; upper lip slightly emarginate, reflexed, much 

 shorter than lower. Capsule shorter than the calyx, oblong-ellipsoid, 

 grooved. 



Grassy places in Dehra Dun; also in Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand and in the 

 sub-Himalayan tracts of N. Oudh. DISTRIB.: W. Himalaya np to 

 6,000 ft., Bengal, Punjab, Sind, W. and S India to Ceylon} extending 

 to the Malay Pen., Siam, Java, China, Arabia, Africa and Mascarene 

 Islands. 



4. S. euphrasioides, Berth, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i, 364 ; F. B.I. 

 tv, 299 ; Prain Beng. PI. 775 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 303. Buchnera euph- 

 rasioides, Valil ; hoxb. FL Ind. Hi, 32. Vern. Aggia ^Bundelkhand). 



Very variable in habit, sometimes only 4-6 in. high and with a simple fili 

 form stem, or a much-branched stout herb up to 2 ft. high. Leaves 

 sessile, 1-2 in. long, often with 1 or 2 teeth on each margin, scabrous. 

 Flowers sessile or nearly so, in long often interrupted spikes or racemes. 

 Calyx % in. long, campanulate ; ribs 15, strong and scabrous ; segments 

 linear-subulate, acute, usually reflexed in fruit : each segment with one 

 rib passing along the centre to the apex, the secondary ones not 

 ending in the sinus but continuing to the apex of each segment along 

 the edges which thus become strongly margined. Corolla white, -| in. 

 long, tube exserted, the much-incurved upper portion hairy within. 

 Capsule i in. long. 



Moradabad (T. Thomson), Bundelkhand (Edgeworth Duthie, Mrs. Bell). 

 Parasitic on and said to be destructive to crops of juar (Andropogon 

 Sorghum). Flowers during the cold season. DISTRIB.: Plains of 



