Centranthera.} SCROPHULARINEZ, 775 
666. Striga Lour. 
Herbs, usually scabrid, discoloured or black when dry; leaves, 
lower opposite, upper alternate, linear, entire, rarely toothed, 
Sometimes reduced to scales. Flowers Pippo x the upper in 
aie spikes; bracteoles usually epals connate in 
tubular, 5- or 10- or 15-ribbed, 5- ie or 5- he calyx. Petals 5, 
connate in a 2-lipped corolla; tube slender, abruptly incurved at or 
above the middle ; limb suecniing: ; upper lip inner in bud, usually 
short, notched or 2-fid; lower 3-fid. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
included; anthers 1 -celled, vertical, ea ae es obtuse ; 
connective sometimes mucronate. Carpels connate in a 2-celled 
Ovary ; ovules many in each cell; style thic ia upward; stigma 
entire. Frwit an oblong or subglobose, loculicidal capsule ; valves 
entire, firm, septiferous, separating from the placentas. See 
very many, ovoid or oblong, reticulated. 
Calyx 5-ribbed ...... densiflora 
Calyx 10-ribbed... lutea 
Calyx 15-ribbed eup hrasioides 
1461. Srrica DENSIFLORA Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 299. 
Bengal. 
A herb, 6-18 in. high ; flowers white. 
1462. Srriga ture Lour.; F. B. L. iv. 299. Buchnera asiatica 
WsE: iii, 81. 
Chota Nagpur; N. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
A herb, 6-12 in. high ; flowers white, yellow, scarlet or 
purple. 
1463. Srrica EUPHEASIOIDES aa F. B. I. iv.299. Buchnera 
euphrasioides F. I. iii. 
Chota Nagpur; Ses N. Bengal; E. Bengal. 
A slender herb, 6-24 in. high; flowers white. 
667. Centranthera R. Br. ; 
Annual, rigid, scabrid herbs; leaves opposite or the upper alter- 
nate, oblong or linear, obtuse, entire or toothed. Flowers axillary 
or in bracteate spikes or racemes; bracteoles 2. Sepals connate 
in a compressed, spathaceous calyx, split on one side, acute or 
acuminate, entire or shortly 3-5-lobed on the other. Petals 5, 
connate in a long, tubular, incurved corolla ; limb oblique; lobes 
