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centre of the segments. About Surat. Syn. Buchnera asiatica, 

 Vahl. Symb. iii, p 81 (?) ; B densiflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. p 41 ; 

 leaves spreading and recurved. 



5. SULPHUREA, Dalz. Mss. All scabrous ; stem slender, 

 quadrangular; leaves very narrow-linear, acute, 8 to 12 lines long, 

 scarcely half a line broad ; flowers very shortly-pedicelled ; pedicel 

 with 2 subulate bracts ; calyx prominently 15-nerved, 5 lo 6,J lines 

 long, divided to the middle, divisions linear, strap-shaped ; corolla 

 yellow ; tube as long as calyx, and pubescent towards the apex ; 

 upper lip broad, almost truncate, lower 3-lobed ; lobes obovate, all 

 ciliated, about 1 to 1| line in length. A very distinct species, 

 coming nearest to Euphrasioides, but having a calyx about 

 double the length, with the divisions long and exactly linear. Found 

 on wet rocks on Sewnere Hill-fort, along with Ophelia minor. 



17. BUCHNERA, Linn. 



1. B HISPIDA, Ham. in Don. Prod. Fl Nep. p 91. 1 to 2 feet 

 high, scarcely branched, leafy at the base ; leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late-toothed, upper ones linear; spike terminal, slender, interrupted, 

 many-flowered ; flowers light-purple, curved like those of Striga. 

 Island of Caranjah, in the rains. 



18. RAMPHICARPA, Benth. 



1. R LONGIFLORA, Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i, 368 A low, 

 much-branched plant ; leaves pinnately divided into linear segments ; 

 flowers white, with a very long, slender tube, and regular limb ; 

 capsule furnished with an incurved oblique beak. Common in 

 Ghaut pastures during the rains. Syn. Buchnera longiflora, Arnott 

 in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 18, p 356. 



19. CENTRANTHERA, Br. 



1. C HISPIDA, R. Br. Prod, p 438. -Erect, hispid, about 1 foot 

 high ; leaves opposite, sessile, linear, almost entire, very rough ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary subsessile, somewhat trumpet-shaped, of 

 a deep-purplish red. Hilly parts of the Concan, but not common. 



20. SOPUBIA, Hamilton. 



1. S DELPHINIFOLIA, G. Don. Gard. Diet, iv, p 560. An 

 annual, erect, elegant plant ; leaves opposite, irregularly pinnatifid, 

 with filiform segments ; flowers axillary, solitary, short-peduncled, 

 large, rose-coloured; capsule oblong, the length of the calyx. 

 Common in cultivated fields during the rains. Gerardia delphini- 



