356 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEX® (HEMSLEY AND SKAN).  [Capraria. 
and branches terete. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
1-3 in. long, 4-3 in. broad, acute, narrowed at the base, coarsely 
serrate. Flowers usually geminate, sometimes solitary; peduncles 2-6 
lin. long. Calyx 24-22 lin. long ; segments linear-lanceolate, 1?-2 lin. 
long, acute, pilose, sparingly punctate. Corolla 3}—32 lin. long; lobes 
oblong-elliptic, 2-24 lin. long, acute. Capsule 2? lin. long, ovoid- 
ellipsoid, obtuse, slightly emarginate, punctate.—Benth in DC. Prodr. 
x, 429. 
Upper Guinea. (iold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 79! Accra, Brown, 
! 
Evidently an introduced plant in Africa. It is a native of Tropical America. 
36. VERONICA, Linn.; Benth et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 964. 
Calyx 4- or 5-partite ; segments scarcely imbricate, the fifth posticous 
segment when present usually smaller. Corolla-tube short, rarely 
exceeding the calyx; limb spreading, 4- or 5-fid; lateral lobes outside 
(or one only outside) ; upper and lower lobes often narrower. Stamens 
2, inserted on the corolla-tube at the sides of the upper lobe, exserted ; 
anther-cells divergent or parallel, obtuse, confluent at the apex. Style 
subcapitate at the apex. Capsule compressed or turgid, 2-sulcate, locu- 
licidal. Seeds few or many, ovate or orbicular, affixed by the inner flat 
or concave surface, smooth or rugulose on the back, often with a 
thickened or wing-like margin; embryo straight.—Herbs, shrubs or 
more rarely trees. Leaves opposite, more rarely verticillate or some- 
what scattered. Flowers in terminal or axillary bracteate racemes, 
more rarely solitary in the axils of alternate leaves; pedicels ebracteo- 
late. Corolla blue, purple, flesh-coloured or white, never yellow. 
Capsule very often obtuse or emarginate. 
Species about 200, chiefly in the temperate and cold regions of both hemispheres : 
very few in tropical countries and America, Shrubby species are numerous in New 
Zealand, 
Flowers in axillary racemes. 
Stem erect, stout ; leaves sessile,semi-amplexicaul . 1. V7. Anagallis. 
Stem more or Jess decumbent, often slender ; leaves 
petiolate. 
Plant glabrous or nearly so; leaves elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong 
aoe ° : : . . 2. V, Beccabunga. 
Plant distinctly pubescent ; leaves ovate to sub- 
orbicular. 
Raceme more than 5-flowered ; corolla scarcely 
1 lin. long z : a 2 4 . 38. V. javanica. 
Raceme 2-5-flowered ; corolla 3-3} lin. long . 4. V. abyssinica. 
Flowers axillary and solitary or in crowded terminal 
racemes. 
Plant perennial, glandular-hairy; branches often 9- 
12 in. Jong. 
Leaves shortly petiolate. 
Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, }-1} in. long ; 
calyx 4-partite . : ; : 2 . 5. V. glandulosa. 
