Flora Medica

SCROPHULARIACE^E.smooth, succulent. Leaves opposite, sessile, obovate, wedge-shaped oroblong, smooth, entire, obtuse, fleshy, dotted with minute spots. Pedunclesaxillary, alternate, solitary, round, smooth, shorter than theleaves, one-flowered. Flowers blue. Bractes 2-awled, pressing onthe calyx laterally. Calyx 5-leaved, the exterior three leaflets large,oblong, the two interior small linear ; all are concave, smooth, pointedand permanent. Corolla campanulate; border 5-parted, nearly equal.Anthers 2-cleft at the base, blue. Stigma large, somewhat 2-lobed.Capsule ovate, 2-celled, 2-valved. Seeds very numerous. Roxb.The natives of India use the expressed juice, mixed with Petroleum,to rub on parts affected with rheumatic pains.1051. H. ? amara Benth. scroph .ind. 30. Gratiola amaraind. i.Roxb.fi.135. Moluccas.Root fibrous. Stems and branches creeping, with their extremitiessuberect, 4-sided, coloured, smooth. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordatedeeply serrate, somewhat rugose, of a soft texture, but free ofpubescence ; in general about 2 inches long. Peduncles axillary,solitary, rather longer than the petioles, supporting at their extremities2 or 3 pairs of opposite pedicelled flowers. Bractes small, oblong, oneunder the insertion of each pedicel. Calyx of 2 pair of opposite leaflets,exterior pair large, cordate, often notched the ; upper one larger andincumbent over the rest of the calyx and all the corolla except the underlip ;inner or lateral pair linear-lanceolate, and much smaller than theexterior pair. Corolla bilabiate; tube contracted at the middle ; upperlip straight, narrow with a 2-lobed apex; under lip broad, 3-lobed,drooping. Stamina; the fertile pair of filaments lodged under the upperlip of the corolla, with twin anthers, adhering by pairs, the sterile pairfrom the under lip, with large, yellow, free, clavate apices. Stigma2-lobed. Capsules ovate, 2-celled, hid between the exterior leaflets ofthe calyx. Seeds numerous, very small. The leaves are excessivelybitter, and might no doubt answer valuable purposes in medicine.Roxb.CALCEOLARIA.Calyx 4-parted. Corolla rotate, 2-lipped the ;upper lip verysmall and convex, the lower distended into a large pouch. Stamens2, with 1 -celled transverse anthers. Capsule half 2-valved ;valves bifid.1052. C. trifida Fl. Peruv. i. 17. t. 26. b. Vahl. enum. i. 185.Woods of Peru, in watery places. (Tumpu.)Stem suffruticose, 2-3 feet high, branched, nearly smooth. Leavescordate-ovate, obtuse, serrated, the lower opposite and stalked, theupper ternate, sessile, covered with glandular hairs ; petioles connate.Peduncles axillary and terminal, umbellate, hoary. Corolla yellow.Leaves are said to be tonic and febrifugal.1053. C. pinnata Linn. mant. 171. Vahl. enum. i. 189. Act.Mm. 1770. t. 8. Bot. Mag. t. 41. Damp places in Peru.An annual about 2 feet high, hairy and viscid all over. Leavesstalked, all pinnated, with toothed leaflets, or even pinnatifid ones atthe lower part of the stem. Peduncles 2 or 3 together. Sepals ovate504