﻿SCROPHULARIACEJ^ (Hiern). 



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XXIII. PHYLLOPODIUM, Benth. 



Calyx oblong or oval, 5-cleft or deeply 5-lobed, membranous or 

 above thinly herbaceous, persistent; lobes equal or nearly so. 

 Corolla tubular, thin, marcescent ; tube subcylindrical, somewhat 

 dilated about the top, more or less exceeding the calyx ; limb 

 spreading, 5-lobed, sometimes oblique ; lobes not very unequal, 

 rounded, entire or retuse, shorter than the tube, the two posterior 

 exterior. Stamens didynamous, glabrous ; filaments filiform, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube ; anthers all alike, rounded, usually 

 exserted, 1-celled by confluence of the cells. Ovary 1 -celled, 

 glabrous ; style filiform, exserted, narrowly clavate towards the 

 obtuse entire stigmatic apex ; ovules numerous or few in the cells. 

 Capsule ovoid, oblong or subglobose, somewhat compressed, obtuse, 

 toughly membranous, septicidal ; valves bifid. Seeds few or 

 numerous, irregularly pyramidal-polyhedral ; testa blackish or pallid, 

 membranous. 



Annual, occasionally suffruticose herbs, more or less viscid-pilose, sometimes 

 turniug dusky when dried j leaves opposite or tlie upper alternate ; flowers small 

 or moderate in size, mostly spicate ; bracts 1, basal, more or less leaf-like, aduate 

 below to the calyx or short pedicel ; spikes terminal, simple. 



DiSTRiB. Species 18, endemic. 



* Annual herbs, not usually suffruticose : 



Corolla-tube about twice as long as the calyx ... 

 Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx or not 

 much longer : 



Corolla-lobes about ^ in. long 



Corolla-lobes ttj-tV J"- long: 



Bract oboVate or oblanceolate, dentate or 

 denticulate : 



Puberulous : calyx-segments linear- 

 lanceolate, acute 



Viscid-puberulous ; calyx-segments 

 linear-spathulate, obtuse... 

 Bract ovate or oblong, entire or that of 

 the outer flowers few-toothed : 



Calyx and bract subglabrous or 

 ciliolate : 



Leaves dentate, i-ll in. long 



Leaves entire or nearly so, 



y^-Ain. long ... ••• 



Calyx and bract more or less hairy 



on the back : 



Plant 1M2 in. high : flowers 

 J;,-iin.long: 



Leaves numerous, linear 



or oblanceolate : 

 Leaves less numerous, 

 mostly ovate, obovate 

 or oblong : 



Leaves dentate ; flow- 

 ers orange-yellow... 

 Leaves nearly entire 

 or with few small 

 teeth : 



(1) cuneifolitim. 



(2) Augei. 



(3) bracteatum. 



(4) sordidum. 



(5) diffasum. 



(6) calvum. 



(7) multifolium. 



(8) capitatum. 



