Brandisia.] cm. scROPHULARiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 257 



PuirjAB Hills, near Peshawur, Vicwry, AitcMson. WESiBBlf Himalaya and 

 Westben Tibbt, alt. 10-12,000 ft., Thomson.— DTSiniB. AfFghanistan. 



SootstocJc woody, often with many radical petioled pinnatifid or entire oboTate 

 or oblong-cordate leaves which are sometimes 5 in. long, and solitary scape-like panicles ; 

 tl;us resembling a Scabiosa. In other specimens the stems are slender, 1-2 feet 

 high, and much branched, like those of S. lucida, from which the small flowers about 

 ^ in. long, best distinguish it. S. lioolor, of Europe, is very near this.— The 

 Beloochistan plant of Stocks referred to it by Boissier may be the same, but it is not 

 in a suf&ciently good state for determination. 



TbibeIY. CKEIiONEH:. 



8. BRANDISIA, KooTc.f. Sf Thorns. 



Tomentose or scurfy shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary or 2-nate; pedicels 2-bracteolate. Calyx campanulate, 5-tootlied. 

 Corolla-tubes inourY&di, dilated above ; upper lip broad, concave, erect, broadly 

 2-lobed; lower spreading, shortly acutely 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 shorter than the corolla, filaments flattened below ; anther-cells divergent, 

 margins bearded. Style filiform, stigma simple. Capsule ovoid, loouhcidal, 

 many-seeded, valves separating from the columnar placentiferous axis. 

 Seeds linear, testa lax membranous reticulated. — Species 2, a Chinese and 

 the following. 



The supposed second species of Brandisia, alluded to in the " Genera Plantarum " 

 as a native of Bhotan, has stellate tomentum, lanceolate leaves and a 2-lipped calyx, 

 and cannot be congeneric. It may be a WigMia, but the specimens are far too imperfect 

 for determination. The Chinese plant referred to B. discolor by Hance, differs in the 

 broad calyx-lobes and coroUa; it is S. Sancei, H. f. 



B. discolor, -H"./. 4" T- *™ Jburn. Linn. Soc. viii. 11, t. 4 ; leaves ovate- 

 , lanceolate finely acum.inate base rounded or cordate, calyx-teeth subulate. 

 Xurz For. Fl. ii. 250, and in Joum. As. Soc. 1873, ii. 236. 



PEaij, Maetaban, and Tbitasbbiiim, alt. 3-6000 ft., JBrandis, Parish, Kwz. 



An evergreen half-scandent shrub. Leaves 2-3 in., firm, glabrous above, white- 

 or fulvous-tomentose beneath with very prominent nerves, petiole J in. Pedicels 

 longer than the petiole. Calyx ^ in. long, tomentose, 5-ribbed opposite the teeth. 

 Corolla I in., dull purplish brown, tomentose. Ca;psnle ovoid, acute, | in. long. 



9. WIGKTIA, Wall. 



A tree. Leaves opposite or alternate, quite entire, very coriaceous. 

 Flowers in axillary thyrsi, large, rosy, pubescent. Calyx campanulate, 

 irregularly 3-5-lobed. Corolla-tube incurved, upper lip erect, 2-lobed ; lower 

 spreading, 8-fid. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, exserted; anthers 

 oblong, sagittate, cells parallel. Style long, tip incurved, stigma simple. 

 Ca/psule oblong or ovoid, septioidal, many-seeded, valves long, separating 

 from the placentiferous axis, which is 2-partite or entire. Seeds linear, 

 ascending, nucleus slender, testa membranous broadly winged all round, 

 albumen 0; embryo straight. — Species 3, a Javan, Bornean, and the 

 following. 



W. g'lgrantea, Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. 71, t. 81, and Cat. 2703; Benth. 

 in DC. Prodr. x. 301 ; Gamble Cat. Darjeeling PI. 58. Gmelina specio- 

 sissima, I)on Prodr. 104; ScTiauer in DC. Prodr. xi. 650. 



Centeal AND Wbsteen HIMALAYA J Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, J'. D. S., &o.s 

 Bhotan, Qriffith. — ^DlSTBlB. Java {Serb. Morsjield). 



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