290 cm. SCBOPHULARINB^. (J.D.Hooker.) [Gampylanthm. 



racemes, ofteit seound, pedicels 2-braoteolate. Calyx 5-fid or -partite. 

 Corolla-tube long, slender, incnrved; lobes 5, broad, flat, spreading, sub- 

 equal. Stamens 2, included ; anther-cells divaricate, tips confliient. Style 

 sbort or long, straight or inflexed, stigma capitate. Capsule broad, com- 

 pressed, septicidal, valves 2-fid. Seeds many, orbicular, compressed, 

 notched at the hilum ; funicle expanded into a wing that soinetimes 

 surrounds the seed.— Species 4, Canaries, Cape de Verds, Arabia, Scinde. 



C. ramosissimus, Wight let. 1416; a much branched, rigid, puberu- 

 lous shrub, leaves linear-oblong or -spathulate, flowers subcorymboae. Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, iv. 433. 



SciNDB ; limestone hills at Hyderabad, Stocks. — Distsib. Belnohistau. 



A low shrub, branches slender but very stiff, divaricate, spinescent. Leaves J-J in. 

 Flowers shortly pedicelled. Sepals short, lanceolate, acute. Corolla J in., tube villous 

 within, lobes acute. Fruit not seen. 



36. PXCXtORXXZA, Royle. 



A low more or less hairy herb, with perennial woody bitter stock. ILeaves 

 subradical, spathulate, serrate. Flowers spicate on radical leafy flowering 

 stems, braoteate, ebracteolate, white or blueish, dimorphic (a longer and shorter 

 stamened form). Sepals 5, lanceolate, imbricate in bud. Corolla of the long 

 stamened form short, membranous, subequally 5-cleft to the middle ; lobes 

 ovate, acuminate, ciliate ; of the shorter stamened, corolla-tube curved, 

 broad; limb 2-lipped, upper lip longer subgaleate emarginate, lower of 3 

 shorter ovate acute lobes, the middle one smallest. Stamens 4, filaments in 

 the loBger stamened very slender, four times as long as the coroUa ; of the 

 shorter stamened stout, 2 upper shorter than the upper lip of the corolla, 

 with the anthers under the hood, 2 lower exserted ; anther-cells subdivergent 

 confluent at the tip. Ovary 2-celled, many-ovuled ; style of the long 

 stamened long and slender, stigma simple ; of the shorter stamened stouter 

 and shorter, stigma capitate exserted. Capsule ovoid, turgid, acute, septi- 

 cidal and loculicidal, margins of the valves inflexed, exposing the columnar 

 placentiferous axis. Seeds of an oblong curved nuoleusi enclosed in the 

 large bladdery loose hyaline reticulated testa. 



I have described this plant as dimorphic with some hesitation, the pistil and stamens 

 being in both forms so fully developed, though in so far as I have seen the anthers 

 of the short stamened have very scanty and irregularly formed pollen, whilst those of 

 the long stamened have copious poUeu. Both forms seem to ripen fruit abundantly. 



P. KLurrooa, Senth. Scroph. Ind. 47, and in DC. Prodr. x. 454; 

 Soyle HI. 291, t. 71. Valeriana? Lindleyana, Wall. Cat. 404 {corrected to 

 Veronica, p. 23). 



ALPiifE Himalaya; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 9- 15,000 ft., common. 



Rootstoch as thick as the little finger, 6-10 in. long, clothed with withered leaf -bases. 

 Leaves 2-4 in., rather coriaceous, tip rounded, base narrowed into a winged sheathing 

 petiole. Flowering stems or scapes ascending, stout, longer than the leaves, naked or 

 with a few bracts below the inflorescence. Spikes 2-4 in. long, suboylindric, obtuse, 

 many-flowered, subhirsute ; bracts oblong or lanceolate, as long as the calyx. Sepals 

 i in. long, ciliate. Corolla of short stamened form |— J in. long, with longer filaments 

 j in. long, of the longer stamened from J in., with filaments | in. long. Capsule J in. 

 long. 



37. WTri.FENXA, Jacq. 



Glabrous herbs, with perennial woody stocks. Leaves subradical, petioled, 



