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size of a pea. P flexuosn, Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 561 ; Linn. sp. 1, 2C>I. 

 A widely-spread plant, growing also at the Cape of Good Hope, the 

 Canary Isles, Greece, Mauritius, Sind, and Persia. The root and 

 leaves are powerfully narcotic and diuretic , the seeds are employed 

 to coagulate milk, like the Puneeria in Sind a plant of the same 

 family. 



GIL SCROPHULARIACEJE. 

 1. CELSIA. 



1 . C COROMANDELIANA, Vahl. Symb. iii, 79. Herbaceous, 

 pubescent and viscid ; lower leaves lyrate, floral ones cordate, 

 stem-clasping ; peduncles longer than the calyx ; calycine segments, 

 ovate, slightly toothed, or oblong-lanceolate, entire ; flowers largish, 

 yellow ; filaments bearded with purple hairs. Kyeghur Fort ; waste 

 places in the Deccan. 



2. LINARIA, Vent. 



1. L RAMOSISSIMA, Wall. Cat. 3911, and PI As. rar. t. 153. 

 Glabrous ; branches elongated, very slender ; leaves alternate- 

 petioled, smooth, triangular hastate, lower ones sometimes acutely 

 5 to 7 lobed ; pedicels longer than the petiole ; flowers yellow, with 

 a short-curved spur ; capsule glabrous. Bassein Hills ; near Bel- 

 gaum, Ahmedabad, Deccan, and Sind, plentiful. 



3. LINDENBERGIA, Link, and Otto. 



1. L URTICAEFOLIA, L. and O. Ic Select. PI Hort. Bowl. 9- r >. 

 An annual, downy plant, erect or ascending ; leaves ovate-serrate ; 

 flowers solitary, axillary, yellow ; corol 3 times the length of the 

 calyx. Un the wall of Bombay Fort and other similar places, 

 common. Syn. Stemodia ruderalis, Vahl. Symb. ii, 69 ; Brachy- 

 coris parviflora, Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gcetting. 1830. 



4. STEMODIA, Linn. 



S. VISCOSA, Roxb. Cor. PI /. 163. Herbaceous, erect, pubescent 

 and viscid ; leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, acute-dilated, cordate and 

 stem-clasping at the base; flowers axillary, solitary-pedicelled, 

 dark-blue. Common on rice fields in the cold weather. 



5. MAZUS, Lour. 



1 . M RUGOSUS, Lour. Fl Cochin 385. A delicate annual ; 

 leaves cuneate-oblong, coarsely toothed, glabrous ; calycine seg- 



