Veronica.] cm. scROPHULARiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 297 



Perennial, branches 3-10 in., ascending. Leaves J-J in., rather coriaceous. 

 Macemes 1-4 in. j lower bracts leaf-like, upper narrow. Sepals \-^ in., obovatfi- 

 obloDg, clliate, shorter than the corolla. Corolla \ in. diam., white or lilac. 



Tbibe yiii. gerardzes:. 



40. AIiECTRA, Thunt. 



Erect, rigid, usually scabrid herbs, blact wben. dry. Leaves opposite or 

 tbe upper (rarely all) alternate, toothed (reduced to scales in A. Thomsoni). 

 Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes, solita.ry in the axils of bracts, 

 2-bracteolate, upper crowded, yellow, or streaked with red or brown. Calyx 

 campanulate, subfoliaceous, 5-toothed or -fid, lobes valvate or open in bud. 

 Corolla-tube broad ; limb obHque ; lobes 5, spreading, the lower outer in 

 bud. Stamens 4, didynamous ; anthers touching in pairs, naked or bearded, 

 cells parallel^ bases mucronate. Style long, inflexed, stigma elongate tongue- 

 shaped. Capsule subglobose, looulicidal, valves entire or 2-fid. Seeds very 

 numerous, minute, linear, testa very lax reticulate, nucleus smalL — Species 

 14, tropical American, African and Indian. 



1. A. indica, Senth. in DC. Prodr. x. 339 ; scaberulous, leaves sessile 

 or shortly petioled ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate coarsely toothed base 

 cuneate rarely cordate, bracts longer than the sessile flowers. A. cordata, 

 Benth. in DC. I. c. (the Svmalayan specimen). Hymenospermum denta- 

 tum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 3963. Glossostyles arvensis, Benth. Scroph. 

 Ind. 49. 



Temfeeate HiMAlATA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 3-9000 ft. Khasia Mts., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. Behar ; top of Parusaath, Anderson, &c. AvA, Wallich. — Disteib. 

 Mauritius. 



Stem 6-18 in., naked below, simple, or branched above. Leaves J-l§ in., sparingly 

 coarsely toothed. SpiJces pubescent, 3-6 in.; flowers crowded; bracteoles ciliate. 

 Calyx \ in. long. Corolla ^ in. long, yellow, lobes rounded subequal. Filaments 

 ciliate ; anthers yellow. Capsule shorter than the calyx, subglobose, 4-lobed. Seeds 

 linear, nucleus very small in the centre of the transparent sausage-shaped testa. 



2. A. P Thomsoni, Hooh. f. ; slender, leaves scale-like, flowers race- 

 mose, bracts minute. 



Behab ; on Parusnath, alt. 3000 ft., parasitic on a Strohilanthes, Thomson. 



A very singular plant, resembling the S. African A. orobanehoides, Benth. Stem rigid 

 but flexuons, 6-15 in. high, simple or branched at the rootstock, hardly scaberulous. 

 Leaves represented by a few scattered scales j^j-j in. long, the largest oblong, obtuse. 

 Racemes 6-10 in., liix-fld. ; bracts minute ; pedicels J-J in., slender. Oalyx, fruiting 

 hemispheric, \ in. diam. ; lobes broadly triangular.' Capsule globose, as long as the 

 calyx. Seeds as in A. indiea, but more minute and elongate-cuneiform. 



41. BUCKNERA, Linn. 



Eigid annual herbs, black when dry. Leaves, lower opposite, broad; 

 upper alternate, narrow. Flowers sessile, axillary, or in braoteate spikes, 

 2-braoteolate. Calyx tubular, lO-nerved, sometimes 5-ribbed, 6-toothed. 

 Corolla -tiibe slender ; lobes 6, flat, subequal, spreading, 2 upper inner in 

 bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers 1-celled, vertical, dorsi- 

 fixed, bases obtuse, connective sometimes mucronate. Style thickened or 

 clavate above, stigma entire or notched. Capsule oblong, looulicidal; 

 valves coriaceous, entire, septiferous, separating from the placentas. Seeds 



