Flora Medica

SCROPHULARIACE.E.eating cells confluent at the apex. Capsule globose, oblong, orlinear, 2-valved ;valves entire, membranous.1056. V. diffusa Linn. mant. 89. Benth. scroph.ind. 37.Brazil, Guayana, Isle of France.Diffuse, pubescent. Leaves broad-ovate, subsessile. Flowers axillary,sessile. Calyx somewhat 5-cleft, twice as short as the oblongcapsule. Benth. Of great value in Guayana as an antibilious emeticand febrifuge, and a most efficacious remedy in malignant fevers anddysentery, especially in cases depending on a disordered state of theIt is called Haimaradaliver. Hancock, in Med. Sot. Trans. 1829, p. 9.by the Arowak Indians, and Bitter Blain by the Dutch Creoles.1057. Torenia asiatica Linn. The juice of the leaves is consideredon the Malabar coast a cure for gonorrhoea.PICRORHIZA.Calyx leafy, campanulate, almost equally 5-cleft. Corollacampanulate, shorter than the calyx, nearly equally 4-cleft, withthe segments entire. Stamens 4, inserted in the throat of thecorolla, nearly equal, diverging, projecting some distance.thers 2-celled, with the cells confluent at the apex. Valves ofthe capsule septiferous in the middle, bipartible, with a doubledissepiment. Seeds inclosed in a bladdery arillus-like membrane.1058. P. Kurroa Royk illustr. p. 291. t. 71. Benth. scroph.ind. 47. Veronica? Lindleyana Wall. cat. No. 404. GossainThan, Kamaon and Kedarkonta.A fleshy rooted perennial. Stems very short, ascending. Leavesobovate, tapering to the base, serrated, smooth or nearly so, scapeerect, naked. Flowers sessile, deep blue, in dense spikes. The rootis intensely bitter, and used in the native medicine of India.EUPHRASIA.Calyx campanulate, 4-cleft. Upper lip of the corolla galeate.emarginate, lower larger, spreading, with the middle lobe emarginate.Stamens 4, fertile ;lower cells of the upper antherswith a long spur. Capsule oblong-ovate, compressed, emarginate,with entire valves. Seeds few in number, with a somewhatstriated membranous skin.1059. E. officinalis Linn. sp. pi. 841. Eng. Bot. t. 1416.Smith Eng. Fl. iii. 122. Benth. scroph. ind. 51. Heathsand pastures of Europe, the Himalaya mountains, Cachmere, andall the north of Asia. (Eyebright.)An elegant little plant, varying in height from 1 inch to 4 or 5,with a square, downy, leafy stem, either simple or branched. LeavesJ or i an inch long, almost entirely opposite, ovate or heart-shaped,downy, strongly ribbed and furrowed, with sharp tooth-like serratures.Flowers axillary, solitary, very abundant, inodorous, but remarkable for506