318 cm. SCROPHULAEINB^. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Lathraia: 



a scaly buried rootstook and short erect scaly stems. Flotoers biseriate in a 

 secund raceme, bracteate, ebracteolate. Calyx campannlate, entire or split 

 in front, 4-fid or -lobed, lobes valvate. Corolla'tube arched or nearly 

 straight ; lips erect, upper arched entire or notched ; lower smaller, trun- 

 cate, 3-toothed, plaited. Stamens 4, anthers under the upper lip; cells 

 equal, parallel, margins bearded, bases muoronate. Dish glandular, en- 

 larged, opposite the lower lip. Ova/ry 1-celled ; placentas 2, 2-fld ; style 

 exserted, decurved, stigma capitate. Ca/psule 2-valved. Seeds many, small, 

 globose, rugose. — Species 3, Europe, N. Asia, Himalaya. 



1. Xi. squamaria, Linn. ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 493 ; calyx split to 

 the base in front. Renter in DC. Prodr. xi. 40; Seichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 

 t. 1764. 



Western Himaiata, Falconer. Kashmib, Banahal, alt. 6000 ft., Thomson; 

 Urrukta, Moyle. — Disteib. Europe, Siberia. 



Mootstock Btont, fleshy, branched. Stems 4-10 in., stout scaly. Saceme i-G in., 

 bracts like the scales, broadly oblong. Flowers J in. long. Calyx 2-lipped, 4-toothed 

 to the middle, teeth subacute, Corolla longer than the calyx, arched, lobes short 

 erect, anthers cohering. Capsule ovoid. 



54. nXEZiADIPVRTTia, Linn. 



Annual erect herbs, black or dark when dry. Leaves opposite, narrow, 

 entire or incised at the base. Flowers axUlary or secund in dense spikes with 

 large often coloured bracts, ebracteolate. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, upper 

 teeth often larger. Corolla 2-lipped, tube cylindric ; upper lip erect, short, 

 hooded, compressed, margins reflexed or with a tooth on each side ; lower 

 longer, erecto-pateut, 3-lobed, base 2-gibbous. Stamens 4i, ascending; anthers 

 under the upper lip, meeting in pairs, cells distinct equal parallel, bases 

 obtuse. Stigma simple ; ovules 2 in each cell, one sessile the other stipitate. 

 Capsule compressed, ovate, oblique, loculicidal. Seeds 4 or fewer, f unicle 

 swollen. — Species 6, of N. temp, regions. 



1. nx. indicum, Sooh.f. 8( T. in HooJc. Kew Journ. Bot. ix. 246, t. viii. ; 

 slender, scaberulous, leaves petioled lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, bracts 

 leaf-like scaberulous, racemes lax-fld., flowers puberulous, calyx-teeth 

 equalling the tube, corolla-tube much longer than the calyx slender. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft., Lolh, J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



A slender twiggy branched herb, 2 ft. high. Leaves |-1 in., acute, quite entire, 

 petiole ^ in. Mowers subsessile, | in. long, dark red. Calyx ^ in., lobes subacute 

 rather shorter than the tube. Corolla puberulous, upper lip almost truncate shorter 

 than the 3-fid lower. Filaments puberulous. Capsule ovoid, beaked, cells 1-seeded. 



GENIKA OP DOITBTPUL POSITIGST. 



55. OREOSOIiBN, Hook./. 



A small, tufted, glabrous, rather fleshy herb. Stem short, stout. Leaves 

 opposite, subsessile, oblong-obovate, obtuse, coarsely irregularly crenate- 

 serrate, nerves subparallel, midrib obscure. Flowers fascicled in the leaf- 

 axils, shortly pedioelled, bracteate, ebracteolate. Sepals 4, linear, obtuse, 

 erect, puberulous. Corolla straight, tube twice as long as the sepals, tubular- 

 funnel-shaped, mouth dilated, limb short, 2-lipped ; Hps subequal, upper of 

 two round lobes (the outer in bud) ; lower 3-lobed, lobes short 2 lateral 

 retuse, median smaller ovate obtuse. Stamens 4, inserted in the middle of 

 the tube, filaments erect thickened above, glabrous ; anthers small, adnate 



