252 cm. SCEOPHTJLAEINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Lmaria, 



and loted, upper lanceolate sagittate, pedicels ri^d longer than tlie leayes, 

 spur longer than the corolla-tulDe, seeds scabrous. Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 368. 



The PnNjAB, Scinde and Western Himaiata, ascending to 6000 ft., and east- 

 ward to Kamptee, Wight, and Eotas in Behae, J. B. H. Distbib. Westwards to 

 Persia. 



More rigid than L. ramosissima, with smaller more entire leaves, and shorter 

 petioles. 



3. Ii. incana, Wall. PI. As. Mar. ii. 43; perennial, villous, branches 

 prostrate, leaves ovate or hastate, petiole very short, pedicels rigid often exceed- 

 ing the leaves, spur much shorter than the coroUa-tube, seeds closely roughly 

 pitted. 



Western and Cbntkax Himalaya ; from Kashmir, alt. 6,500, Falconer, &e., to 

 Nepal, Wallick. 



Habit of L. cabulica, hut with much larger flowers and capsules, and larger, very 

 different seeds. 



** Sepals linear-spathulate. 



4. Ii. minor, Desf. ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 287 ; annual, erect, 

 glandular-pubescent, leaves mostly alternate oblong or obovate, pedicels slender, 

 spur shorter than the corolla-tube, seeds oblong truncate ribbed smooth. Boiss. 

 Ft. Orient, iv. 883. Antirrhinimi minus, Linn. ; Gaertn. Fract. i. 249 to 53. 



The Punjab Plain ; Vicary, Aitchison. Distrib. Westwards to Britain. 



Stem 6-18 in., branches ascending. Leaves ^1 in. obtuse, narrowed into the 

 petiole. Peduncles axillary, often exceeding the leaves. Sepals enlarging after 

 ■flowering, nearly equalling the pale purple coroUa with a yellow depressed palate. 

 Capsule gibbous at the base ; cells subequal, opening by ragged pores. 



5. SCKWEINFTTRTHXA, A. Braun. 



Annual or perennial branched glabrous herbs. Leaves nearly always alter- 

 nate, quite entire. Flowers small, axillary. Sepals imbricate, the upper 

 largest. Corolla-tube subacute ; upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lovcer reflexed 

 3-lobed ; palate closing the throat. Stamens 4, didynamous, 5th rudimentary ; 

 anther-cells diverging. Style filiform, stigma minute. Capsule subglobose, 

 fragile, anterior cell many-seeded, bm-sting irregularly ; posterior very small, 

 3-4-seeded or empty. Seeds obconic, 5-winged, furrowed between the ribs. — 

 Species 3, N.E. African and oriental. 



1. S. spttserocsirpa, A. Braun in Monatsb. Akad. Wiss.Berl. 1866,875; 

 robust, glabrous or hairy, leaves orbicular obovate or spathulate fleshy glaucous, 

 pedicels very short, sepals ovate or lanceolate acute. S. papiUonacea, Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 387. Antirrhinum papilionaceum, Bwm. Fl. Lnd. 121, t. 39, f. 2. 

 A. glaucum, Stocks in Wight Ic. t. 1459. Linaria sphserocarpa, Benth. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. 287. 



SoiNDE ; in rocky places ; Stocks, Vicary. Distrib. Beloochistan and Aff- 

 ghanistan. 



Perennial ; branches 6-12 in. Leaves J-I5 in., obtuse or subacute, narrowed into 

 the short petiole. Sepals J in. long, equalling the eoroUa^tubes, enlarged in fruit. 

 Corolla dirty-white. Filaments hairy at the base. Capsule ^^ in. diam. Seeds 

 pale. — Sunp4t of druggists. 



