Sopubia.] 
LXXXVII. SCROPHULARINEiE. 
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those of the side branches entire, ^ to lin. long with smaller ones often clustered 
in the axils, the upper ones alternate. Flowers usually distant, forming a very 
loose terminal leafy raceme. Pedicels at first short, at length ^in. long. 
Bracteoles linear, close under the calyx. Calyx 2 to 2^ lines long, with 
triangular acute lobes as long as the tube, woolly inside. Corolla with a very 
short tube, almost rotate, about -Jin. diameter, yellow with a purple centre or all 
purple. Capsule truncate, as long as the calyx. 
Hab.: Tropical localities. 
The species has a wide range in the hilly districts of India, extending to Ceylon, and (in a 
slight variety) to Madagascar. 
28. EUPHRASIA, Linn. 
(From euphrasia, joy ; reputed virtues.) 
Calyx tubular or campanulate, 4-lobed. Corolla tubular at the base, 2-lipped, 
the upper lip concave or hood-shaped, with 2 broad spreading lobes ; the lower 
lip spreading, 3-lobed, overlapping the upper ones in the bud. Stamens 4 in 
pairs ; anthers 2-celled, connivent under the upper lip of the corolla, the cells 
mucronate, often hairy. Style slightly dilated at the end, the stigma obtuse, 
entire or with a small upper lobe. Capsule oblong, compressed, opening 
loculicidally in 2 valves. Seeds oblong, striate. — Herbs either annual or 
perennial and branching at the base, believed to be often partially parasitical on 
roots. Leaves opposite, toothed or lobed. Flowers sessile or nearly so in short 
and dense or long and interrupted terminal spikes, the floral leaves or bracts 
usually more acute than the stem-leaves. Bracteoles none. Anther-cells equal 
in all the Australian species, unequal in some others/ 
The genus comprises a small number of very variable species distributed over the temperate 
and colder regions of the northern hemisphere, extratropical South America, and New Zealand. 
Perennial, branching at the base with ascending or erect stems. Leaves 
narrow, pubescent or glabrous. Flowers variable in size, the spikes usually 
interrupted 1. E. collina. 
Pubescent erect annual (usually above 6in.), not drying so black as the 
perennials, and the corolla- lobes not so broad. Anthers very hairy. Flowers 
yellow. Teeth of the upper leaves rather acute 2. E. scabra. 
1. £2. collina (found on hills), R. Br. Prod. 436 ; Bentli. FI. Anetr. iv. 520. 
Stems from a hard usually, if not always, perennial much-branched base, 
ascending or erect, from Gin. to above 1ft. high, glabrous or pubescent as well as 
the foliage, the inflorescence usually more or less glandular-pubescent. Leaves 
sessile or the lower ones narrowed into a short petiole, from oblong to 1 near- 
cuneate, obtuse and obtusely toothed at the end only or more frequently to near 
the base, usually f to £in. long, but larger in luxuriant specimens ; the floral 
ones smaller broader and less toothed, the upper ones often entire (rarely cuneate 
and more deeply toothed ?). Flowers purple bluish or white, sometimes mixed 
with yellow, rarely quite yellow, in terminal spikes, usually long and interrupted, 
with the flowers in distant pairs, at least when the flowering is advanced, rarely 
compact but occasionally remaining so even in fruit. Calyx usually about 2 lines 
long at first and lengthening to 3 lines, but very variable, the lobes acute or 
obtuse, equal to or shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube exserted, the throat 
broad, the lobes large but scarcely so long as the tube, the middle lower one 
emarginate, the others very obtuse or retuse, the whole corolla varying from ^ 
to fin. in length. Anthers hirsute. Capsule exceeding the calyx, shortly 
mucronate or rather acute. — Benth in DC. Prod. x. 553 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 
296; F. tetragona, R. Br. Prod. 436; Benth. l.c. ; Bartl. in PI. Preiss. i. 343; 
E. multicaulis, Benth. l.c.; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 297. 
Hab.: Between Stanthorpe and the border of N. 8. Wales. 
