260 cm. scHOPHULAEiNRa;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mazus. 



Tbmpbbate and StTBTEOPiCAii Himalaya, and Plains of Nobtheen India ; from 

 Kashmir to Bhotan, ascending to 7000 ft. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft. Bubua, 

 Wallich. TJppBE Assam, G-rifftth. SoANB BiTEB, J. D. S. — Distbib. Afighanis- 

 tan, Java, China, Japan, Philippine Islds. 



Annual, glabrons or sparsely hairy. Radical leaves numerons, 1-3 in. long, in- 

 cluding the petiole, which is rarely as long as the blade, coarsely irregularly crenate- 

 toothed. Flowering-stems numerons from the root, 2-10 in. long, leafless or with 

 alternate spathnlate leaves. Racemes 1-6 in., pedicels J-J in. Calyx in fruit J-f in. 

 diam. Corolla \-\ in. long, blue. Seeds exceedingly minute, pale. — Roxburgh's 

 Colnmnea iomentosa, referred here by Bentham, can hardly be this. 



2. m. surculosus, Don Prodr. 86; runners rooting witli opposite 

 leaves, radical leaves obovate-spathulate coarsely crenate and often snbpin- 

 natifid at the base narrowed into a short petiole, pedicels mostly bracteate, 

 calyx-lobes i as long as the tube short obtuse or subacute suberect in fruit. 

 BentA. in DC. Frodr. x. 375; Wall. Cat. 3912; ? Wight Ic. 1. 1467. 



Tempeeate Himalaya ; from Knnawar to Bhotan, alt. 3-7000 ft. Khasia Mis., 

 alt. 4r-5O0O ft. ? NmSHiEl Mts., Schmidt, SohenacJcer, O. Thomson. 



In its ordinary state very different from M. rugosus in the shorter racemes, the 

 often pinnatifid leaf-bases, bracts and calyx ; but small specimens of either are diffi- 

 cult to distinguish. The Nilghiri specimens are very small and dense, without runners 

 or bracts, but they have the short-lobed calyx of M. surcalostis; they may prove 

 specifically different. The figure in Wight's Icones represents the calyx very incor- 

 rectly. 



3. IH. dentatus, Wall. Cat. 3914; runners 0, radical leaves long- 

 petioled elliptic-oblong or ovate sinuate, pedicels bracteate, calyx-lobes ^ the 

 length of the tube rounded ovate or triangular obtuse or acute suberect in 

 fruit. Benth. Scroph. Ind. 27, and in DC. Prodr. x, 375. 



Tempeeate Himalaya; Kumaon, alt. 8000 ft., Strach. ^ Winterl.; Nepal, 

 Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 6-8000 ft., J. D. M., Freutler. Khasia Mts.j Nnnklow, 

 alt. 5000 ft., Simons. 



Glabrous or sparsely hairy. Rooistoch perennial. Leaves 1-4 in., base acute 

 rounded or subcordatej petiole \-Z in. Moinering branches or scapes 3-6 in., erect 

 or decumbent, slender, few-fld., leafless. Mowers distant, j-1 in. long ; pedicels ^-^ 

 in. ; bracts setaceous. Calyx j-f in. long, lobes sometimes longer and acute as in 

 M. rugosus. Seeds twice as large as in M. mgosus, black. 



18. XiANCEA, Sooh.f. Sf Thorns. 



A small glabrous herb. Leaves radical and opposite, obovate-oblong or 

 spathulate, quite entire. Flowers in a very short terminal few-fld. raceme, 

 pedicels bracteate. Calyx campanulate, 5-fid. Corolla.-tube dilated above ; 

 upper Up suberect, concave, 2-lobed; lower large, spreading, 3-lobed, palate 

 2-convex. Stamens 4, didynamous, subexserted; anther-ceRs diverging. 

 Style filiform, stigma 2-lamellate. Fruit globose, indehiscent, exserted. 

 Seeds numerous, small, subglobose, testa thin. 



Xi. 



tibetica, Sooh.f. Sf Thorns, in Hook. Ketc Journ. ix. 244, t. 7. 



Alpine Himalaya and Westeen Tibet; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 11- 

 16,000 ft., Thomson, &c. 



Bootstock slender, horizontal, creeping. Leaves rosnlate, or opposite on a very 

 short stem 1-4 in. high, 1-3 j in. long, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a J-amplexi- 

 caul petiole J-1 m. long, rather coriaceous, sometimes very obscurely toothed. Flowers 



