iaciucted : anthers free, cells nearly equal, aflSxed at the Apex, 

 obtuse at the base : style slightly thickened at the top, obtuse : 

 capsule subg-lobose, very obtuse, loculicidally dehiscing : seeds 

 Numerous, oblong-cuneate. 



(1) M. WiGHiii. (Benth.) 



Ideni. Dec. prod. X. p. 509. 



Engrdv. Wight's Icon. t. 1417. 



Spec. Chak. Herbaceous, stiff, branched plant : leaves linearj 

 ^cute or 3-cleft : flowers subsessile : bracts oii the short pedicels 

 'oblong : capsule longer than the calyx. 



Courtallnm, flowering in August and September. 



GENUS XXVr. SOPUBiA. 

 If idynaniia Anslo»perauia. Sex ,- Syst .- 



t)eriv. The native name Latinised. 



CrEN. Chae. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed, teeth valvate in 

 aestivation, short or narrow : corolla infundibuliform or subrotate- 

 tjampanulate, lobes spreading, entire : anthers two, or all coher- 

 ing by pairs : style thickened at the apex, obtuse, somewhat 

 tongue-shaped : capsule ovate or oblong, round or compressed at 

 the apex, retnse or emarginate : valves entire or finally sepjici- 

 dally 2-cleft : seeds numerous.— Erect, branched, scabrous herbs : 

 leaves narrow, often dissected, opposite or the upper ones alter- 

 nate : flowers racemose or somewhat spiked at the tops of thei 

 branches, peduncles 1-flowered, with two bracts above the middle t 

 tMjrolla purple or rose-coloured. 



(IJ S. DELPHINIFOLIA. (G. Dolt.) 



ident. pec. prod. X. p. 522. 



Syn. Gerardia delphinifolia, Linn. — Euphrasia Coromatideliana^ 

 iloth. in Spreng. Syst. 



Spec. Char. Annual, erect : leaves opposite, irregularly pin-i 

 natifid, with filiform segments : flowers aJcillary, solitary, short'^ 

 peduncled, large, rose-coloured. 



Common in moist places in the Peninsula, flowering in the rains^ 



