1022 PRIMULACEAE 
spike-like panicles. Calyx tubular, with stalked glands, unevenly 5-lobed, with 
merely hyaline sinuses. Corolla salverform: tube elongate: lobes broad: cap- 
sule included.—LEADWoRTS.—About 12 species, widely distributed in warm 
regions. 
. Corolla white; tube less than twice as long as the calyx: calyx merely glandular 
all over. 1. P. scandens. 
Corolla blue; tube over twice as long as the oe calyx finely 
pubescent and glandular one’ near the bas 2. P. capensis. 
1. P. scandens L. Stem erect, decumbent, or climbing, somewhat woody: leaf- 
blades elliptic, elliptic- lanceolate, or ovate, 2—10 cm. long, acute or short- 
acuminate : r cles elongate, interrupted: 
bus acumi idi ealyx searcely 1 em. long 
in RE than one third the length 
of the E aa ostly 3—4 m long: 
HERR Dis -prismatie, about 7 mm. long, 
beaked.—Hammocks, S Fla. and Xitchen 
middens N eae the coasts.— ( W. I., Mez.,. 
A., S. A.)—AIl year. | 
P. capensis Thumb. Stem erect, often Js 
dite branched or bushy: leaf-blades 4 
elliptic, varying to  elliptie-spatulate or JN Mim 
elliptie-ov ovate, 3-9 em. long, obtuse or Sij4TN. 
acutish: panicles compact, short: bracts l 
mucronate: cal fully 1 em. long in s 
sis, less than bu the length of 
corolla corolla mostly 4—5 cm. long. —Roadsies and n DS S Fla. 
f S Afr. and cult.—(W. I., “Mer, C. A., 8. A.)— — All 
Famy 2. PRIMULACEAE — Primrose FAMILY 
various in habit. Leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled, 
perfect. Calyx 4-9 partially united sepals, commoniy persistent. 
Corolla of 4^9 sari ils united petals, or rarely wanting. Androecium 
of as many stamens as there are sepals and alternate with them, some- 
times with aoo Gynoecium a single pistil, with a central placenta: 
style single. Fruit a 1-celled, 2-8-valved capsule.—Twenty- si genera 
and 400 species, uu distributed i in the Northern Hemisphere 
Ovary superior. 
uc of the eorolla imbrieate: ovules attached at the base: leaf-blades dis- 
'Tribe I. HOTTONIEAE, 
Lobes of the corolla valvate or convolute: ovules attached 
at the middle : leaf-blades endre < or toothed. II. PRIMULEAE. 
Ovary half-inferior III. SAMOLEAE. 
I. HOTTONIEAE 
Aquatic, rooting, and floating herb: stems and peduncles swollen 
and inflated: corolla salverform. 1. HOTTONIA. 
II. PRIMULEAE 
Corolla-lobes erect or merely spreading: anthers not sagittate. 
Capsule opening lengthwise. 
Filaments united below the middle: anthers ovoid. 2. LYSIMACHIA. 
Filaments ee or essentially so: anthers linear. 3. STEIRONEMA. 
Capsule circumsciss 
