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In a variety of situations, integrals of products of eigenfunctions have faster decay than smoothness entails. This phenomenon does not appear for abelian or compact groups, since irreducibles are finite-dimensional, so the decomposition of a tensor product of irreducibles is finite. In contrast, for non-compact, nonabelian groups irreducibles are typically infinite-dimensional, and the decompo...

DOWNIE, S. R., and MCNEILL, J. 1990. A note on the taxonomic status of Euphrasia randii (Scrophulariaceae). Can. J. Bot. 68: 1531-1535. A reexamination of the phenetic relationships among the previously recognized infraspecific taxa of Euphrasia randii using principal component analyses and four clustering methods indicates that the recognition of these infraspecific taxa is unwarranted. This c...

Verbascum species, the largest genus of the family Scrophulariaceae, have been used in traditional medicines for centuries in almost all parts of the world. In this paper, the usage, biological activities (antioxidant, anticholinesterase, antiinflammatory, antinociceptive, wound healing, cytotoxic, anticancer, antitumor, immunomodulatory, antimicrobial, antimalarial, anthelmintic, antiviral, an...

A new minor polyoxygenated triterpene named glutinolic acid (1) and two new aeginetic acid quinovosides (2, 3) were isolated from the roots of Rehmannia glutinosa LIBOSCH. (Scrophulariaceae) cultivated in Gunwi-gun, Korea. The structures of these compounds were established as 3α,19α,20β,24,30-pentahydroxyurs-12-en-28-oic acid (1, glutinolic acid), aeginetic acid 5-O-β-D-quinovoside (2) and aegi...

Veronica persica Poiret (Family: Scrophulariaceae), the `Common Field Speedwella or `Persian speedwella, is a neophytic weed originally from south-west Asia and widely distributed in the temperate regions (USDA-ARS GRIN database, 1999; Fischer, 1987; Holm et al., 1979). The plants were garden weeds and collected in #ower near Aberystwyth (Tyn-y-Graig, Wales), and a voucher specimen (N9623) of t...

Bacopa monniera Linn. (Brahmi) is an annual creeper belonging to family Scrophulariaceae and growing all over the Indian sub-continent in marshy areas. It is a major Medhya Rasayana used in Ayurveda for treatment of memory disorders. Large number of saponins and glycosides has been isolated from the plant. Most of the experimental and clinical studies have been done with crude extracts or stand...

The water-soluble part of the methanolic extract from the aerial parts of Scrophularia crypthophila, through chromatographic methods, yielded three new resin glycosides, crypthophilic acids A - C (1-3). Compounds 1-3 are tetraglycosides of (+)-3S,12S-dihydroxypalmitic acid. The structures of these and 10 known compounds were elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical means. All natural resin glyc...

Three new species of Dactuliothrips Moulton are described, two from Mendoza, Argentina and one from Southern California, USA: D. prosopis sp.n. from Prosopis alpataco (Fabaceae), D. monttea sp.n. from Monttea aphylla (Scrophulariaceae), and D. ephedra sp.n. from Ephedra sp. (Ephedraceae). A revised diagnosis and an illustrated identification key to the nine recognized species of Dactuliothrips ...

An ‘avatar’ is a local population of a species in a local community; it is the local embodiment of the group – the tangible representative that interacts with avatars of other species (Damuth, 1985). In this issue of New Phytologist, Anderson & Johnson (pp. 533–540) report on a striking story of avatars evolving under the influence of one another in diverging communities. Previously, Anderson &...