paucifloris, 
. tubo glabro. 
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five-cleft, as figured in the plate (which is 
presumed by Dr. Wight to have been an 
error in his draughtsman) as four-cleft, as 
mentioned in the description :— 
* Parasitic, from three to eight inches 
high. Root tuberous, about the size of a 
walnut. Stem none, unless the unbranch- 
ed portion of the scape can be so called, 
Scape simple at the base, and furnished 
with scattered scales, branched upwards, 
and furnished with a few distant opposite 
scales or bracteas: the whole is covered 
with short stiff hairs. Scales and bracteas 
lanceolate. Flowers se unded 
with three bracteas. 
four-cleft; segments lanceolate, with a 
broad dark line or nerve running from the 
apex of each down to the base of the ca- 
lyx-tube. Corolla glabrous, of a pale se- 
pia-tint, hypocrateriform ; tube three times 
the length of the calyx, slender, arched 
near the top: limb five-partite ; the lowest 
segment the largest, and with the two late- 
ral ones obovate and slightly retuse ; the 
two upper recurved smaller than the others, 
oblong obtuse. Stamens four, inserted 
above the middle of the tube, two of them 
a little longer than the others, all glabrous. 
Ovary ovate, slightly compressed, ovules 
very numerous. Style slender, straightish, 
a little shorter than the tube of the corolla, 
persistent. Stigma simple, thickened. 
Capsule ovate, slightly compressed, two- 
valved, loculicidal. Seeds minute, oval, 
slightly pitted. 
“ This I first found on low hills at Pa- 
laveram, near Madras, parasitic on the roots 
of Lepidagathis cristata. Y afterwards ga- 
thered it in a similar soil and situation near 
Madura, but did not ascertain the plant on 
which it grew. The specimens figured are 
from hills in the Salem district." 
Tas. XIX. Fig. I. Calyx laid open to show the 
NS 2. vrapi laid open, showing the Stamens, 
magnified, 
SYNOPSIS OF THE BUCHNEREZ, 
— ** Folia Tide 
Caiyosr 5-striati. 
Corolla versus apicem incurva 
2 S. humifusa, prostrata, sanba foliis 
vato- obtusis, spicis brevibus 
calycibus 5-striatis ^, corolle 
A TRIBE OF SCROPHULARIACE E, 
Browallia humifusa, Forsk. Fl Æg. 
Arab, 12. 
Buchnera humifusa, Vahl. Symb. 3. 81. 
Has. Mountains of Hadje, in Arabia, 
Forskahl. (v. s. in Herb. Banks.) 
From the very imperfect specimen in the 
Banksian Herbarium, I have not been able 
to ascertain whether the calyx is in fact 
five-ribbed, but the form of the leaves and 
procumbent stem will readily distinguish it 
from all others. 
3. S. parviflora, pusilla, scaberrima, 
foliis linearibus integerrimis strictis, caly- 
cibus 5-striatis, corolle pubescentis labio 
superiore integro inferiore vix duplo bre- 
viore. 
Buchnera parviflora, Br. Prod. 294. 
Has. 
East Coast, Brown. (v. s.) 
A small plant; but little branched ; flow- 
ers smaller than in any other species. 
4, * ‘aspera, foliis anes inte gir 
pilis patentibus rigidis ciliolatis, gie 
5-striatis, corollis glabris tubo elo 
tenui, labio superiore emarginato inferiore 
duplo breviore. 
Euphrasia aspera, Willd. Spec. 3. 197. 3 
Buchnera aspera, Schum. Beskr. PL 
Guin. 280 
Has. Western Tropical Africa, Guinea, — | 
Australia, Keppel Bay on the | 
Willdenow, PN Thonning, Cape puc = 
Herb. Banks. (v. s 
The Banksian apoie is more we 
than described by Schumacher, and the 
flowers are not so large as in Glechoma, 
yet I have no doubt it is the same species. 
It closely resembles S, parviflora, but € 
fers in the corolla, which is twice a$ 
and in the more regular and greater nispi- 3j 
dity of the plant. 
5. S. curviflora, scaberrima, foliis a s 
gato-linearibus integ 
calycibus Gwent, corolle tubo E 24 
cente, labio superiore retuso inferiore tri 
partito ter breviore. 
Buchnera curviflora, Br.! Prod. 294 D 
Has. Australia, on the North ke 
Brown. 
coccinea, differs from the former x 
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