SCROPHULARIACE^;. 



eating cells confluent at the apex. Capsule globose, oblong, or 

 linear, 2-valved ; valves entire, membranous. 



1056. V. diffusa Linn. mant. 89. Benth. scroph. ind. 37. - 

 Brazil, Guayana, Isle of France. 



Diffuse, pubescent. Leaves broad-ovate, subsessile. Flowers axil- 

 lary, sessile. Calyx somewhat 5-cleft, twice as short as the oblong 

 capsule. Benth. Of great value in Guayana as an antibilious emetic 

 and febrifuge, and a most efficacious remedy in malignant fevers and 

 dysentery, especially in cases depending on a disordered state of the 

 liver. Hancock, in Med. JBot. Trans. 1829, p. 9. It is called Haima- 

 rada by the Arowak Indians, and Bitter Blain by the Dutch Creoles. 



1057. Torenia asiatica Linn. The juice of the leaves is con- 

 sidered on the Malabar coast a cure for gonorrhoea. 



PICRORHIZA. 



Calyx leafy, campanulate, almost equally 5-cleft. Corolla 

 campanulate, shorter than the calyx, nearly equally 4-cleft, with 

 the segments entire. Stamens 4, inserted in the throat of the 

 corolla, nearly equal, diverging, projecting some distance. An- 

 thers 2-celled, with the cells confluent at the apex. Valves of 

 the capsule septiferous in the middle, bipartible, with a double 

 dissepiment. Seeds inclosed in a bladdery arillus-like mem- 

 brane. 



1058. P. Kurroa Royle illustr. p. 291. t. 71. Benth. scroph. 

 ind. 47. Veronica? Lindleyana Wall. cat. No. 404. Gossain 

 Than, Kamaon and Kedarkonta. 



A fleshy rooted perennial. Stems very short, ascending. Leaves 

 obovate, tapering to the base, serrated, smooth or nearly so, scape 

 erect, naked. Flowers sessile, deep blue, in dense spikes. The root 

 is intensely bitter, and used in the native medicine of India. 



EUPHRASIA. 



Calyx campanulate, 4-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla galeate. 

 emarginate, lower larger, spreading, with the middle lobe emar- 

 ginate. Stamens 4, fertile ; lower cells of the upper anthers 

 with a long spur. Capsule oblong-ovate, compressed, emar- 

 ginate, with entire valves. Seeds few in number, with a some- 

 what striated membranous skin. 



1059. E. officinalis Linn. sp. pi. 841. Eng. Bot. t. 1416. 

 Smith Eng. Fl. iii. 122. Benth. scroph. ind. 51. Heaths 

 and pastures of Europe, the Himalaya mountains, Cachmere, and 

 all the north of Asia. (Eyebright.) 



An elegant little plant, varying in height from 1 inch to 4 or 5, 

 with a square, downy, leafy stem, either simple or branched. Leaves 

 i or i an inch long, almost entirely opposite, ovate or heart-shaped, 

 downy, strongly ribbed and furrowed, with sharp tooth-like serratures. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, very abundant, inodorous, but remarkable for 



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