EUPHRASIA MINIMA 169 
doeeepe le emg taaa meee more or -_ hispidulous- at vee 
beneath along the midrib and often on the margin with s 
scattered veld not gland-tipped hairs, patuloud or the upper ones 
subadpressed, 1-6 mm. lo ong, iP mm. broad including the teeth, 
excluding the teeth ranging up to 3 mm. in breadth, the lowest 
nes small, the margin shortly sseycteae thickened, the midrib 
thickened beneath, the lateral veins also somewhat thickened: 
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. long; floral scare eae like preg upper stem-leaves, 
sometimes rather obovate, broad-based, sessile, without gland- -tip 
setze, about 4mm. long, with acute teeth, concave ; stipules 0; — 
nodes variable in length, the lower ones often exceedin ng the leave 
the upper ones rn her flowers protogynous, axillary, viboneaites 
numerous, 4°5-7 m m. long, — forming spike-like leafy erect 
the outer side by the floral aay ee (bracts) in the axils of which the 
flowers are inserted, 4-cleft, erved, minutely 5 ig se 
more or less hispidulous with soatearail pallid hairs and sometimes 
lanceolate, defeuyods very petting or acuminate, 2-3 mm. long ;- 
corolla bilabiate, ringent, firmly membranous, lemon-coloured or 
partly almost orange-yellow, sometimes the upper lip bluish-. 
purplish and one or both lips marked with dar pom lines, 
tardily deciduous; the tube straight, 2-5-4 mm. long, 1.mm. broad 
at the base, denenict: shaped above, puberulous 0 outside towards the 
top, yellow or above orange-yellow in front or sometimes above 
glabrous except the sparingly pilose throat, not elongating during 
the flowering ; the upper lip erect, bifid, galeate, pilosulous out-. 
side, 2-3 mm. long, the lobes rounded, emargin ate, 0°5 mm. long ; : 
sas hr lip spreading, cer Sauareen arate a4 mm. long, 
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purple, versatile, incumbent, distinctly and somewhat unequally 
2-celled, about 0:8 mm, long, the cells satallel; ccilinte with whitish’ 
