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LXXXVII. SCROPHUL ARINE2E . 
[ Rhamphicarpa . 
ovate, acuminate, without prominent margins, the beak nearly straight or 
somewhat oblique in the Australian form. — B. fistulosa, Benth in D.C. Prod, 
x. 504. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller. 
The Australian specimens seem to connect the African R. fistulosa, which has usually th e 
capsule bordered by a raised nerve or wing, but the beak straight, with the Asiatic JR. longiflora 
(Wight, Ic. f. 1415), which has not the raised nerve, but the beak of the capsule more or less 
oblique or recurved. Neither character appears, however, to be quite constant, and the foliage 
and flowers are the same in all. — Benth. 
26. CENTRANTHERA, R. Br. 
(Anther spurred.) 
Calyx compressed, obliquely acute, split down the lower edge, entire or 2 to 
5-toothed at the top. Corolla with a curved tube dilated upwards, the limb 
spreading, with 5 broad lobes nearly equal or obscurely 2-lipped. Stamens 4, 
included in the tube ; anthers in pairs, the cells transverse, with an awn-like 
point at the end, one cell usually smaller than the other or empty. Style with a 
lanceolate flattened stigmatic end. Capsule obtuse, opening loculicidally in 2 
entire valves. Seeds minute, testa loose, reticulate; albumen scanty.— Scabrous 
herbs. Leaves opposite or the upper ones alternate. Flowers almost sessile, 
axillary or in interrupted terminal spikes with small bracteoles. 
The genus consists of a few tropical Asiatic species, including the only Australian one. 
Probably several of them if not all are parasites. 
1. C. hispida (rough), B. Br. Prod. 438 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iv. 513. A stiff 
erect annual, simple or with spreading branches, 6in. to 1ft. high or rarely 
more, very scabrous with minute hairs or tubercles. Leaves mostly linear, entire, 
the longer ones 1 to l^in. long, the upper ones much smaller. Flowers 
fugacious, nearly sessile in the upper axils, alternate and distant. Calyx 
herbaceous, 3 to 4 lines long. Corolla f to lin. long, variously said to be pink 
purple or yellow. One cell of each anther much narrower than the other, with 
a long point. Capsule ovoid-globose. — Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 45 ; Benth. in DC. 
Prod. x. 525 ; Digitalis stricta, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 99. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, W. Hill; 
Rockhampton and Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; very common on swampy land. 
The species is widely distributed over tropical Asia, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the 
Archipelago and northward to the Himalaya and S. China. 
27. SOPUBIA, Hamilt. 
(From the native name in Nepal.) 
Calyx campanulate, with 5 teeth or lobes, valvate in the bud. Corolla 
broadly campanulate, nearly rotate or tapering into a short tube, with 5 flat 
spreading lobes nearly equal. Stamens 4, the anthers cohering in pairs, each 
with one ovate scarcely mucronate perfect cell, and one small stipitate empty 
cell. Style thickened and slightly flattened towards the end. Capsule ovate or 
oblong, truncate or notched, opening loculicidally in 2 entire or at length bifid 
valves. — Erect scabrous herbs, drying black. Leaves narrow, often divided, 
opposite, or the upper ones alternate. — Flowers yellow purple or pink, in 
terminal racemes or spikes, with a pair of bracteoles on the pedicel. 
A small genus, dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. The only Australian species is one 
of the Asiatic ones. The species are probably all parasitical. 
1. S. triflda (3-fid), Hamilt.; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 522; and FI. Austr. 
iv. 513. An erect rigid scabrous slightly branched annual of 1 to 3ft. Leaves 
narrow linear, the lower ones on the main stem often 3-fid, the upper ones and 
