1206 RHINANTHACEAE 
wingless petioles: aad usually ample and lax, of 4-10 fascicles, often with 
several B of the lower bracts foliaceous: calyx- -lobes triangular- -rounded, 
2-3 mm. long: coro ah ps 8 mm. i staminodium purple: capsule 4—7 mm. 
long, E -ovoid, acute.— (F1aGWwo HEAL-ALL.)—Rich woods, Blue Ridge 
and more northern provinces, Fla. A Ala. to Nebr., Ont., and Mass.—Sum. 
22. RUSSELIA Jacq. Erect-arching herbs or shrubby plants, with s 
eral or many striate-angled stems in a clump on the pe erennial root, and w m 
branches. Leaves all eauline, whorled, with small or scale-like blades. Flowers 
in e eymes, the Lone minute. Bractlets none. Sepals 5, only slightly 
if at all united. Corolla red, 2-lipped: tube nearly cylindric: lips short, the 
dm with partly ed arched lobes, the anterior spreading. Stamens 4, 
iced nai us: anther-sacs explanate 2 
Stigma punetifo 
S 
embedded the seeds. Seeds numerous, cylin- 
drie, reticulate-roughened, long-funicled.— 
About 30 species, tropical American. 
1. R. juncea Zuce. Stem 8-25 dm. long, 
with Eon pm and 4—6 ridges, vir- 
gately branched: leaves seale-ike or if 
velo 
developed E blades vier elliptic, less 
than 1 em. long, short-petioled: cymes lax 
or diffuse, 1— 7 -flowered : oak ovate, 2 mm 
long, a minate: hec 20-25 mm. "long: capsule 0— me mm. long, prominently 
anne -mucronate. — (FOUNTAIN-PLANT. CORAL-PLANT.) — Waste-places and 
roadsides, pen. Fla. and cult. Nat. of ee or all year 
23. ANGELONIA H. & B. Herbs with erect stems arising from a root- 
stock. Leaves opposite: blades often toothed. Flowers in racemes, the bracts 
much smaller than the leaves. Bractlets none. epals 5, uniform. Corolla 
violet-blue, zygomorphie: anterior lip like a shallow cup or saucer: lobes 
spreading, the anterior the longer, with a yellow palate at the base and a pro- 
jecting horn on the mid-anterior lobe. Sta- 
mens 4, scarcely didynamous: filaments 
u 
ub n 
planate. Stigma punctiform-capitate. Cap- 
sule globose, loeulieidal. eeds numerous, 
with raised wing-like retieulations.—A bout ; 
30 species, tropieal Ameriean. 
1. A. angustifolia Benth. Plant us dm 
an the stem and branches glabrous or 
sparsely pubescent; leaf-blades ine 
a oe ban em. loi ng, dur remotely 
p" em. ip wide, 
otted within: capsule 6-7 mm. in diameter, nodding.—(ANGELON. )—Waste- 
oles hs grounds, and rarely Suc S Fla. Nat. of Mex.—Spr.-fall. 
