306 cm. scROPHULARiNEj;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bartsia. 



Stem 6-18 in., erect or ascending, wiry, 4-angled, paniculately branched ; branches 

 ending in leafy spikes. Leaves J-2 in., very variable. Calyx campanulate j lobes 

 ovate, acute, equalling the tube. Corolla \ in., pubescent, pink ; upper lip long, 

 entire.' Anthers exserted, yellow. Capsule i in., rather longer than the calyx. 

 Seeds narrowly oblong. 



52. PEDXCVXiARXS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial ierts. Leaves alternate opposite or whorled, simple 

 toothed pinnatifid or pinnatisect. Flowers bracteate in terminal spikes or 

 racemes, ebracteolate. Calyx tubular or campanulate, entire or split above and 

 often below, 2-5-toothed, lateral teetli free or connate entire or crested, lower 

 small or 0. Corolla 2-Iipped, tube cylindric ; upper lip erect, compressed 

 straight falcate annular or decurved, obtuse acute or beaked, lower with 3 

 spreading erect or deflexed lobes. Stamens A, didynamous ; anthers under the 

 upper lip meeting in pairs; cells distinct, equal, parallel, bases obtuse or rarely 

 awned. Style slender, stigma subcapitate. Capsule compressed, ovate or 

 lanceolate, falcate or oblique, often obliquely beaked, looulicidal ; valves 

 placentiferous, often cohering to the middle. Seeds numerous, of various 

 shapes, testa appressed or lax, reticulate pitted striate or ribbed. — Species 

 about 120, northern and mountain plants, with a few S. American and S. 

 Indian. 



Semes I. Cauline leaves whorled, or opposite, or the lower scattered. 



* Upper Up heaJced. 



1. P. pectinata, Wall. Cat. n. 420 ; usually tall, stout, glabrous, 

 except the often hairy spike, cauline leaves whorled lanceolate pinnatifid or 

 pinnatisect with serrate segments or 2-pinnatifid, calyx-teeth acute entire, 

 corolla-tube short, upper lip inflated sickle-shaped beak long tip twisted. 

 Benth. Scroph. Ind. 52, and in DC. Prodr. x. 560. 



Westben Tempeeatb Himalaya; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 7-11,000 ft. — 

 DiSTBiE. Afighanistan. 



Stem 6-18 in., simple or branched. Leaves 3-6 in. , sometimes 4 in. broad, ovate 

 or oblong; petiole long, slender. Spikes 2-6 in., lax-fld. ; bracts as long as the 

 calyx, ovate or lanceolate. Calyx J in. long, inflated in fruit. Corolla f in., rose- 

 red, beak with a double flexure, as long as the tube. Filaments hairy. Capsule 

 J in., ovoid acute, tip exserted. Seeds large, ^ in. long, ridged and deeply pitted, 

 pale. 



Vae. pyramidata ; stem sometimes 4-fariously hairy, spikes sometimes 1 ft. long. 

 P. pyramidata, Moyle in Benth. Scroph. Ind.,62, and in DC. Prodr. x. 560. 



2. P. robusta, Hook.f. ; pubescent, stems short very stout curved as- 

 cending, radical leaves many linear coriaceous pinnatifid or pinnatisect, 

 segments oblong crenate, cauline few opposite or alternate, racemes short, 

 bracts pinnatifid, calyx-lobes crenate, corolla-tube not longer than the calyx, 

 upper lip erect inflated then sharply decurved and shortly beaked. P. 

 pectinata. Herb. Ind. Or. R.f. S/- T. (the SikUm plant only). 



Alpine Sikeim ; Samdong, alt. 15-16,000 ft., J. B. S., jElwes. 



MootstocTc long, stout, cylindric. Stems several from the rootstock, 3-6 in. long or 

 less, as thick as a crow-quill, sometimes very short. Radical leaves numernus, 2-5 by J^ 

 in., lobes numerous and close-set ; petiole very stout. Racemes dense-fld. ; bracts leafy, 

 crenate or pinnatifid; flowers f in. long. Calyx split half-way down, lobes small. 

 Corolla red-purple ; upper lip | in. long, glabrous, lower \-% in. broad, 3-lobed. Cap- 

 sules I in. long, broadly oblong, tip rounded with a lateral point. Seeds ^ in. long, 

 subelhpsoid, subacute, finely striate, not punctulate, pale. — Clarke collected on Singa- 



