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centre of the segments. About Surat. Syn. Bucbnera asiatica, 

 Vahl. Symb. iii, p 81 (?); B densiflora, Benth. Scropli. Ind. p 41 ; 

 leaves spreading and recurved. 



5. SuLPHUREA, Dalz. Mss. — All scabrous; stem slender, 

 quadrangular; leaves very narrow-linear, acute, 8 to 12 lines long, 

 scarcely half a line broad'; flowers very shoitly-pedicelled ; pedicel 

 with '2 subulate bracts ; calyx prominently 15-nerved, 6 to 5| lines 

 long, divided to the middle, divisions Hnear, strap - shaped ; corolla 

 yellow ; tube as long as calyx, and pubescent towards the apex ; 

 upper lip broad, almost truncate, lower 3-lobed ; lobes obovate, all 

 ciliated, about 1 to 1$ line in length. A very distinct species, 

 coming nearest to Euphrasioides, but having a calyx about 

 double the length, with the divisions long and exactly linear. Found 

 on wet rocks on Sewnere Hill-fort, along with Ophelia minor. 



17. BUCHNERA, Linn. 



]. B HispiDA, Ham. in Don. Prod. Fl Nep. p 91.— 1 to 2 feet 

 high, scarcely branched, leafy at the base ; leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late-toothed, upper ones linear; spike terminal, slender, interrupted, 

 many-flowered ; flowers light-purple, curved like those of Striga. 

 Island of Caranjah, in the rains. 



18. RAMPHICARPA, Benth. 



1. R LoNGiFLOBA, Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i, 368 — A low, 

 much-branched plant; leaves pinnately divided into linear segments; 

 flowers white, with a very long, slender tube, and regular limb ; 

 capsule furnished with an incurved oblique beak. Common in 

 Ghaut pastures during the rains. Syn. Buchnera longiflora, Arnott 

 in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 18, p 356. 



19. CENTRANTHERA, Br. 



1. C HisPiDA, R. Br. Prod, p 438. — Erect, hispid, about 1 foot 

 high ; leaves opposite, sessile, linear, almost entire, very rough ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary subseasile, somewhat trumpet-shaped, of 

 a deep-purplish red. Hilly parts of the Concan, but not common. 



20. SOPUBIA, Hamilton. 



1. S Delphinifolia, G. Don. Gard. Diet, iv, p 560. — An 

 annual, erect, elegant plant ; leaves opposite, irr^ularly pinnatifld, 

 with filiform segments ; flowers axillary, solitary, short-peduncled, 

 large, rose-coloured ; capsule oblong, the length of the calyx. 

 Common in cultivated fields during the rains. Gerardia delphini-' 



