1182 RHINANTHACEAE 
Coleus pumilus Blaneo, with small, Vibes deeply toothed leaf-blades, red 
A ng midrib and lateral veins, the stem mewhat prostrate and rooting along 
wer portion, has been found as an escape in pen. Fla. Native of the 
Philippine Islands. 
Famimy 14. RHINANTHACEAE! — Ficwort FAMILY 
Herbs or rarely shrubs trees. Stems commonly terete. Leaves 
opposite, whore d or alternate: pla es entire, toothed, or divided. Flowers 
sepals. Corolla irregular, of 5 partly or wholly united o Androecium 
usually of 4 didynamous stamens, sometimes 2 or 5 or the fifth one seta 
sented by a staminodium. Gynoecium 2-carpellary. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 
becoming l-celled. Fruit capsular or- rarely baccate. —About 200 genera 
and 3000 species, of wide geographic distribution. 
Corolla with the posterior deed external—overlapping in sae bud. — (Antirrhinoideae) 
Tree: calyx coriaceous: corolla large, about 5 cm. lon . 
capsule woody. E ` Tribe I. PAULOWNIEAE. 
Herbs 2C membranous or her et corolla smaller : 
sule membranous to coria 
Stigmas distinct, flattened qon rely so in Capraria, 
uon and Scoparia) d reticulate or finely 7 
ine in 3 
cep zus, and t EE. axillary: leav 
opp Doer o (except in oa 
Sepals distinct or Es ay 0 (except in He 
anthus) : corolla 1 (3-18 mm. long): leaves 
and capsule usually E. punctate. II. GRATIOLEAE. 
Sepals united over half their fone tue corolla large ° 
(25-35 mmu iene): : leaves and capsule not 
E ular-punctate. III. MIMULEAE. 
Stigmas wholly united, punctiform or capitate: seeds 
not simply reticulate, either smooth, tubercu- 
j eolat ds : 
firm, chartaceous or coriaceou florescence 
racemose or UM eat the bracts usually muc 
smaller than the lea 
Filaments 5: capsule "ep cio idal. 
cone rotate, slightly zygomorphic, its lobes 
nger than the tube: filaments all anther- 
ifar ous: leaves alternate. IV. VERBASCEAE. 
Corolla tubular-campanulate, strongly zygo- 
morphic, its lobes shorter than the tube: 
posterior PRERE without an anther: leaves 
opposite. V. CHELONEAE. 
Filaments 4 (the posterior one present as a 
minute knob only in Collinsia): capsule 
loculicidal. 
d 
Corolla red, tubular: capsule filled with tortu- 
ous hairs between which are scattered rough- 
ened seeds: leaves mostly Aa like. VI. RUSSELIEAE. 
Corolla. pops blue, violet, white, saccate 
JA rred: apace lackinė hairs within 
leare with expanded blades 
Capsule loculicidal by a simple median slit: 
eae abe olate or smooth: corolla vio- 
blue e, not pouched or spurred 
n BOR iot leaves opposite. 
Corolla broadly saucer-shaped or dipper- 
shaped, with a fine horn like appen- 
d t the base of the anterior lobes: 
posterior stamen lacking: capsule 
globose: sepals distinct. VII. ANGELONIEAE. 
1 Contributed by Franeis Whittier Pennell. 
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