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sepals. Corolla white, eampamilate, with 5 flat lobes. Stamens usually 4; 

 anther-saes 2, divergent, confluent. Stigmas dilated or 2-lobed. Capsule 

 short, 2-grooved, loculieidally dehiscent. Seeds reticulated. [Latin, from 

 capra, a nanny-goat.] About 4 species, of tropical and subtropical America, 

 the following typical. 



* 1. Capraria biflora L. Sp. PL 628. 1753. 



Capraria biflora pilosa Griseb. El. Br. W. I. 427. 1861. 



Stems 3-9 dm. tall, branching, sometimes pubescent. Leaves oblanceolate, 

 cuneate or oblong, 1-4 cm. long, acute, sharply serrate above the middle; 

 pedicels solitary or 2 together, shorter than the leaves; sepals linear-lanceolate 

 to linear-subulate, 4-6 mm. long; corolla about 1 cm. long, the tube eampanu- 

 late, the lobes lanceolate, about as long as the tube; capsules oval or oval- 

 ovoid, about as long as the sepals. 



Roadsides, waste grounds and costal dunes. Abaco and Andros to Grand Turk, 

 Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Bermuda; Florida, Texas, south through continental 

 tropical America ; West Indies. Goat-weed. Stow-weed. 



S. SCOPARIA L. Sp. PI. 116. 1753. 



Herbs or low shrubs, mostly branched, with opposite or verticillate, punc- 

 tate leaves, and small braetless pedicelled flowers solitary or in pairs in the 

 axils. Calyx 4-5-parted, the segments nearly distinct, imbricated. Corolla 

 nearly rotate, 4-eleft, densely bearded in the throat, its lobes nearly equal, 

 obtuse. Stamens 4, nearly equal; filaments filiform; anther-sacs distinct, par- 

 allel or divergent. Style clavate above; stigma truncate or notched; ovules 

 many. Capsules septicidally dehiscent, its valves entire, membranous. Seeds 

 many, angular. [Latin, a broom.] About 6 species, of tropical and sub- 

 tropical America, the following typical one also widely distributed in warm 

 and tropical parts of the Old World. 



1. Scoparia diilcis L. Sp. PI. 116. 1753. 



Annual, glabrous, often much branched, 3-10 dm. high, the branches 

 slender. Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, opposite or verticillate in 3 's or 

 4's, serrate or the upper ones entire, short-petioled, acute at the apex, nar- 

 rowed or cuneate at the base, the lower 2-3 cm. long, the upper smaller; 

 pedicels filiform, as long as the upper leaves or shorter, often borne in most 

 of the axils; sepals oblong or oblong-obovate, acute, sometimes ciliolate, about 

 1.5 mm. long; corolla white, 3-4 mm. wide; capsule ovoid-globose, a little 

 longer than the sepals. 



Waste places, New Providence, Great Exuma : southern United Stales; West 

 Indies ; tropical and subtropical continental America ; Old World tropics. Scoparia. 



9. AFZELIA Gmel. Syst. 2: 927. 1791. 



Erect branched herbs, mostly with opposite leaves, at least the lower 1-2- 

 pinnately parted or dissected, and yellow flowers solitary in the axils, or in 

 terminal bracted spikes or racemes. Calyx eampamilate, 5-cleft or 5-parted. 

 Corolla slightly irregular, eampamilate or rotate, the tube short, the limb 5- 

 lobed, the lower lobe exterior in the bud. Stamens 4, slightly unequal; fila- 

 ments short, villous, at least near the base; anthers 2-celled, the sacs parallel, 

 distinct. Capsule acute and more or less compressed at the summit. Seeds 



