758 BENGAL PLANTS. [Antirrhinum. 
644. Antirrhinum Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs; leaves entire or lobed, lower oppo- 
site, upper alternate. Flowers solitary, axillary, or passing into 
terminal racemes, with bract-like floral leaves; bracteoles 0. 
Sepals connate in a 5-partite calyx; lobes imbricate. Petals 5, 
onnate in a compressed, tubular corolla, saccate at the base; 
upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower spreading, 3-lobed, with a bearded, 
broad palate closing the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers 
with distinct parallel cells. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; 
ovules numerous ; style filiform; stigma 2-lobed. Frwit an ovoid 
or globose, 2-celled capsule, each cell opening by one pore, or the 
posterior by two toothed pores. Seeds minute, numerous, oblong, 
truncate, rugose or pitte 
1407. ANTIRRHINUM MAJuUS Linn.; F. B. I. iv. 253. 
In gardens during the cold season; subspontaneous in 
some parts of India, but not so in Lower Bengal. 
An erect annual. Snap-dragon. 
645. Russelia Jacq. 
Shrubs or undershrubs with angular branches; leaves Bi 
or whorled, those of stem often reduced to scales. Flowers in 
lax, dichotomous cymes, sometimes reduced to a siiehs sowie 
bracts small, ae Sepals 5, connate in a deeply lobed calyx; 
lobes imbrica Petals 5, connate in a pink cylindric corolla; 
limb Urania 2-lipped ; lobes all PIRSA subequal, the two 
upper outermost. Stamens 4, did s; anthers with divari- 
cate re with nieiuane a ak tiple Carpels connate in a 
ovary ; many; style filiform; stigma minute. 
Fruit a aahgsoboiah sdplicidal, 2-valved capsule. Seeds numerous, 
ovoid, wingless, surrounded by long, dilated, hyaline hairs. 
1408. RussELIA JUNCEA ea 
gardens, very common 
A pore tufted iene eer numerous slender, green 
branches. 
646, Sutera Roth. 
A low, diffuse, viscid _ leaves pinnatifid, lower opposite, 
apes altemate, Sige small, ary, passing into terminal 
es ; brac heidi lad; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in 
a dep aivided calyx ; lobes narrow, hardly imbricate. Petals 5, 
a slender, tubular corolla; throat undilated; lobes 
