﻿398 SCROPHULAKTACE^ (Hiern). [Ct/cnium. 



towards the stigmatic apex ; capsule ovoid, somewhat compressed, 

 glabrous, |-i in. long, about i in. broad, i in. thick, blunt, tipped 

 with the style or its remains. 



Eastebn Kegion : Natal ; Shafton, Howick, Mrs. H. Button, 224 ! 



XLIII. EHAMPHICARPA, Benth. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft or deeply 5-lobed ; lobes acute or 

 acuminate. Corolla-tube slender, elongated, straight or somewhat 

 curved ; limb ample, spreading, 5-lobed ; lobes obovate, the two 

 upper interior connate higher up than the others. Stamens 4, 

 didynamous, included within the corolla-tube; anthers 1-celled, 

 vertical, dorsifixed, narrowly oblong, blunt at the base, connective, 

 very shortly prolonged at the apex. Ovary 2-celled, ovoid ; ovules 

 numerous ; style included within the corolla-tube ; stigma not much 

 thickened, acute. Capsule usually beaked, somewhat compressed 

 vertically (the plane of compression being perpendicular to the 

 septum), loculicidal. Seeds numerous, small, obovoid. or oblong j 

 testa reticulate, subadpressed. 



Erect or procumbent herbs, turning dusky in drying, perennial, probably half- 

 pa rasitical ; leaves opposite or the upper alternate, simple or piimatisect, sub- 

 linear or the segments filiform; flowers rather large, axillary or in terminal 

 racemes. 



DiSTEiB. Species 10 or 12, the others ia Tropical Africa, ladia, and the 

 Orient. 



Glabrous or slightly glandular-puberulous, erect or 

 ascending at first, ebraeteolate ; 



Leaves pinnatisect; flowers axillary, bibracteo- 



late (ij flstulosa. 



Leaves entire or few-toothed; flowers race- 



mose, ebraeteolate (2) tubulosa. 



Pilose, procumbent, bibracteolate; flowers axillary"! (3) montana. 



1. R. flstulosa (Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 504) ; an annual 

 herb slightly glandular-puberulous, otherwise glabrous, shining, 

 simple or divaricately branched, erect at first or in flower, after- 

 wards especially in fruit decumbent or ascending, i-2 ft. high, 

 yellowish-green when alive, quickly turning black in drymg; 

 stem sulcate; branches opposite, sulcate, slender; leaves opposite 

 or subopposite, pinnatisect, i-2i in. long ; segments filiform, 

 ftstular distant, spreading, i~lj- in. long, wjth small whitish 

 lenticular or oblong warty tubercles ; flowers axillary, several, about 

 i 2 m long, sulphur-yellow or pale-rosy ; peduncles ^i in. ^on?, 

 bibracteolate at or below the apex ; bracteoles filiform, about i in- 

 long^ spreading ; calyx campanulate, at length saucer-shaped, deeply 

 0-0 bed ; segments from an ovate concave base abruptly produced 

 into an erect or at length spreading acumen, i-f in. long ; corolla- 

 iut)e very slender, cylindrical, funnel-shaped towards the apex, about 

 1. in. long, straight or nearly so; limb very delicate, openly 



