Compilation
Melasma scabrum

a herb, scabrid with short rough dots, dusky or brown when dried, erect, diffuse or ascending, nearly simple or more or less branched, 1/2–2 1/2 ft. high, apparently perennial; root fibrous, saffron-coloured; stems erect or diffuse, viscid-scabrid, leafy; leaves opposite, mostly lanceolate or narrowly oblong, obtuse or subacute, somewhat or scarcely narrowed at the base, sessile or subsessile, deep green above, rather paler beneath, dentate or subentire, often more strongly toothed or shortly lobed near the base, 1/2–3 in. long, 1/12–1 in. broad; flowers 1 1/4–2 in. long, racemose, rather numerous; racemes terminating the stems and branches, up to 4–8 in. long, lax or rather dense; pedicels 1/2–4 in. long; bracts opposite, narrow, neither adhering nor adjacent to the calyx, 1/4– 1/2 in. long; calyx campanulate-oblong, 5/8–1 in. long in flower; tube 10-nerved and 5-angled in flower, veined, loose in flower, inflated in fruit, somewhat unequal and indented at the insertion of the pedicel; teeth 5, deltoid, nearly equal, apiculate, 1/8– 1/4 in. long; corolla white, brown or pale yellow; tube purple on both sides or red, smooth, nearly glabrous, campanulate-oblong, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long; throat dull or dusky purple or brown; lobes 5, rounded, veined, nearly glabrous, 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam., yellowish-white, two of them more or less connate; stamens included; anthers 2-celled; cells acute at the base, dusky (Masson's drawing), about 1/9 in. long; filaments pubescent; style shortly or scarcely exserted, inflexed above, glabrous up to the stigma or nearly so; capsules glabrous, about 1/2 in. long. null