374 XCII, SCROPHULARIACEE (HEMSLEY AND SKAN). — [ Buchnera. 
entire, separating from the placentas. Seeds very many, obovoid or 
oblong; testa reticulate—Herbs often parasitic and drying black, 
usually seabrid and rigid. “Leaves opposite or sometimes rosulate below, 
usually alternate above, simple, entire or toothed, the lower rather 
broad ; the upper narrower and passing into bracts. Flowers solitary 
in the axils of bracts, usually sessile, nearly always 2-bracteolate, 
crowded or distant in terminal spikes, very rarely solitary in the axils 
of the leaves, blue or violet, white, rose or rarely scarlet.—Stellularia, 
Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1318. Benthamistella, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 458. 
Species about 78, in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. 
* Flowers in dense subglobose ovoid quadrangular or 
cylindric usually short spikes or heads, which do 
not elongate, or only slightly, in fruit; stems 
erect. 
+ Spikes simple. 
t Bracts all close together. 
Spikes, especially in fruit, distinctly quad- 
rangular. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong, usually 1 in. 
long or more. 
Bracteoles present ; corolla-limb 3-34 lin. 
in diam. ose 
Bracts all entire . c é . 1. B. lippioides. 
Bracts, at least the upper, 3-toothed or 
-lobed . : : x . 2. B. trilobata. 
Bracteoles absent; coroila-limb 14 lin. 
indiam. . : . 5 . 3. B, ruwenzoriensis- 
Leaves linear or subulate, 2-34 lin. long . 4. B. quadrifaria. 
Spikes not distinctly quadrangular. 
§ Spikes short, as broad or nearly as broad 
as long. 
Plants rather smalland slender, usually 
with narrow leaves and small 
spikes. 
Corolla-limb 4 or 5 lin. in diam. 
Spikes glabrous except the ciliolate 
bracts : : . 5. B. ciliolata. 
Spikes distinctly hairy , - 6. B, humilis. 
Corolla-limb only 2 or 8 lin. in diam. 
Calyx 14 lin. long; teeth ob- 
scure ; corolla-tube 14—12 lin. : 
long . . : ‘ . 7. B. angolensis. 
Calyx 3 lin. long; teeth distinct, 
3 lin. long; corolla-tube 
3 lin, long . : ° . 8. B. minutiflora. 
Plants usually more than 1 ft. high with 
rather broad leaves and large 
spikes. 
Spikes covered with long white 
silky hairs. 3 : . 9. B. splendens- 
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