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78 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIK [PL 46 ft 47
long-pointed, upper ones usually with a much smaller leaf
arising from the same point. Flowers pale purple, tinged
with yellow or green, | in. diameter, single on drooping,
usually axillary stalks. Calyx cleft nearly to the base, segments
leaf-like. Corolla bell-shaped; lobes 5, short, broad,
spreading. Style longer than the corolla; stigma green:
Berry globose, | in. diameter, purple-black, surrounded at the
base by the enlarged spreading calyx.
Flowers. August, September.
Locality. Gulinarg, edge of woods and margs, above
7,500 ft., common.
Distribution. W. Himalaya, 6,000-11,000 ft., from Kashmir
to Simla, W. Asia, Europe.
Plate 47
SCROPHULARIACBAB.
The Figwort Family.
(So named in reference to the medicinal qualities of Scrophula/ria
nodosa in cases of scrofula.)
VERONICA, Linn.
The Speedwell.
(Veronica is said by some to be a corruption of the Arabic viroonikoo,
beautiful remembrance ;
others derive ifc from the Greek
h/iera eicon, sacred image. It is also possible that the name was
given in honour of St. Veronica, or it may be a corruption of
Betonica, more correctly VeUonica, which was united with Veronica
by former writers.)
The flowers are never yellow in this genus.
A. Racemes axillary.
I. Capsule not notched at tip (fig. 3) ... V. deltigera.
II.
Capsule notched at tip.
1. Leaves 2-6 in. long, entire or
nearly so ... ... ... V. anagallis.
2. Leaves 1-2 in. long, coarsely
toothed.
a. Racemes 3-10 in. long (fig. 2) V. laxa.
b. Racemes 2-4 in. long (fig. l) ... V. Beccabunga.