1210 RHINANTHACEAE 
none. Sepals 4 (the o one lacking), uniform or the anterior longer. 
Corolla rotate, blue, violet, or white: lobes spreading, longer than the tube, the 
posterior ones wholly united » form one rounded lobe. Stamens 2 (only the 
2 postero-laterals present): anthers Pana exserted, glabrous, the saes paral- 
lel. Stigma eapitate apsule flattened contrary to the septum, as wide as 
long or wider, deeply Since don Seeds numerous or few, smooth.—About 250 
species, widely distributed.—SPEEDWELLS 
Main stem terminating in an inflorescence, whose flowers are densely crowded or 
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remote and axillary: bract- lr alternate. RONICELLA. 
Main stem not terminating in an inflorescence, leaves opposite 
thro uchont and flowers all as axilary racemes. II. EUVERONICA. 
VERONICELL 
Plant perennial: flowers in terminal racemes: ie pale, with 
deep-blue ee only on the posterior side. 
Plant annual: flowers axillary to most of the leaf-axils: corolla 
more iu colored. 
Pedicels shorter than the linear to lanceolate sepals: a 
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Pedicels longer than the ate Ne capsule relatively 
m seeds few, 1.5— E ipt ng, ‘turgid, rough: stem 
Leaf-blades ovate: sepals short-ciliate, not accrescent : 
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Corolla-lobes ao exceeding the aS sepals: capsule- 
lobes rounded, the distal point of each about mid- 
way between the style and the lateral margin 
style shorter than the capsule. 4. V. polita. 
Corolla-lobes much exceeding the sepals: capsule-lobes 
acutish in profile, the most_ distal point of each 
near the lateral margin: style as long as the cap- 
5. V. persica. 
Leaf-blades broadly and shallowly cordate, 3-5-lobed: 
sepals conspicuously ciliate, accrescent: capsule tur- 
gid, scarcely notched, glabrous: seeds 2.5-3 mm. long, 
blackish. 6. V. hederaefolia. 
EUVERONICA 
uen pubescent, wider than bese ng, the most distal point of 
ach lobe near the lateral margin: pedicel shorter than the 
eee stem, leaves, pedicels, and calyx with glandless hairs: 
leaf-blades oval, with petiole-like bases: herbage pubescent: 
plant of dry soil. 7. V. officinalis. 
Capsule Sabine or sparingly glandular-pubescent, as wide as 
long or narrower, the most distal point of each lobe about 
: aquatic. 
Leaf-blades all petioled: racemes usually 10-25-flowered : 
corolla 2.5—-3 mm. long, violet-blue: style 2—3 mm. long: 
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est! blades of the flow ering stem sessile and clasping ; those 
of the autumnal shoots petioled: racemes usually 30- oe 
flowered: corolla 2 mm. long, pale- n. style 1- à. 5m 
long: inflorescence with gland-tipped rs. 9. V. glandifera. 
1. V. rpylli folia L. Stem 0.3-2 dm. long, finely pubescent with incurved 
hairs, ur distally erect and floriferous: leaf-blades elliptie- cae or aa 
