LX VII. SOLANACEiE 
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7, HYOSCYAMUS. The classical name, signifying hog-bean. 
— 'Temperate Asia, Europe. 
Hyoscyamus niger, Linn . ; FI. Br. Ind. iv. 244. An erect, 
more or less hairy and viscid herb with a disagreeable, heavy 
odour ; stems robust, 1-3 ft. Radical leaves spreading, stalked, 
oblong-ovate, 6-8 in., coarsely sinuate-toothed. Stem-leaves 
smaller, sessile, ovate, irregularly pinnatifid, passing into bracts. 
Flowers pale yellow -green, veined with purple, darker in the 
centre, nearly sessile, lower ones in the forks of the branches, 
upper solitary in the axils of leaf -like bracts, forming long, 1 -sided 
spikes rolled back at the top before flowering, ultimately becoming 
elongated and straight. Calyx f in. ; tube ovoid ; limb funnel- 
shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped ; limb spreading, 
1-1 1 in. across, lobes 5, broad, short, slightly unequal. Stamens 
protruding. Ovary 2 -celled ; style longer than the stamens. 
Capsule | in. diam., enclosed in the globose tube of the enlarged 
calyx, lower part membranous, top hard, rigid, opening trans- 
versely along the constriction between the two portions. 
Narkunda ; July-September.— W. Himalaya, 8000-11,000 ft. — 'Temperate 
Asia, Europe (Britain, Henbane). 
LXVIII. SCROPHULARIACE^E 
Herbs. Leaves simple or pinnatifid, lower opposite, upper 
usually alternate, often passing into floral bracts, rarely all 
alternate ; stipules . none. Flowers 2 -sexual, more or less 
irregular, solitary in the axils of leaves or bracts, usually forming 
racemes or spikes. Calyx free, persistent ; tube long or short ; 
limb 5- sometimes 4-lobed or -toothed. Corolla gamopetalous ; 
tube long or short ; limb 5- or 4-lobed, distinctly 2 -lipped or 
spreading. Stamens 4, 2 or 5, attached to the corolla-tube, 
alternate with the lobes ; anthers often cohering, 2- rarely 1 -celled, 
cells sometimes separated. Disk more or less prominent, ring- 
shaped, encircling the base of the ovary, sometimes obsolete. 
Ovary free, entire, sessile, 2 -celled, in Lathrcea 1 -celled ; style 
simple, stigma terminal, usually 2-cleft or -lobed ; ovules numer- 
ous in each cell, rarely few. Fruit a capsule, berry -like in Hemi- 
jphragma, usually opening by 2 valves which separate from the 
seed-bearing axis ; seeds small, numerous, rarely few. — A very 
large Order, distributed in nearly all parts of the world. 
A. Stamens 2 ( Bonnaya has also two staminodes). 
Calyx 4-lobed. Corolla-tube very short . . . .16. Veronica. 
Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx. 
Leaves 3-6 in., all basal, coarsely toothed. Flowers blue- 
purple . . . . . . . . .15. Wulfenia. 
