Coi.wNsiA. XCI. SCROPHULAllIACE^. 399 



bifid, reflexed, lower trifid, closed by the prominent palate ; caps. 



valveless. doliiscent by 3 pores. — European /ii:rbs u-ith Ike lower Lvs. 

 ojjpdsUe, Ike upper allcrnale. Iiifioresceace as in Liuaria. 



1. A. MAJLIS. Great- Siiap-Draann. — Lrs. lanceolate, opposite ; /Z.f. racemed; 

 i^cp. glamUilar-hairy, lanceolate, acute.— An elegant and pojtular garden liower, 

 native oi England. Grovr.s 1 or2niigh. Flowers large, pink-colored, the lower 

 lip white and the mouth yellow, with a gibbous prominence at base beneath. 

 Tiiere are varieties with scarlet, scarlet and white, and double flowers, f 



2. A. Orontium. ,<?. grandiflorum. Chav. — Glabrous or hairy above, spread- 

 ing; lvs. oblong-lanceolate; _/Z.s'. remote, subsessile, upper ones subracemose ; 

 cai. aciiJiienls equaling the corolla, and ovoid and very oDlique capsule. — Native 

 of Europe, Asia, and North America's Bcnlham. A showy garden plant, 1 — 

 2f high. Corolla ti" long, rose-color or white, with purple spots and veins. •)• 



Tribk 4. CHELrONEJ3. 

 Corolla tubular, not saccate or spurred. Capsule 2 — 4-valved. Calyx seg- 

 ments or lobes inibricate in CESt. Inflorescence compound (general centripe- 

 tal, partial centrifugal). BcntJi. 



5. PAULOWNIA. Siebold. 

 Calyx deeply 5-cleft, fleshy ; cor. tube long, deelinato, enlarged 

 above, limb oblique, with rouuded segments ; sta. 4, arched downwards, 

 with no rudiment of a 5th ; caps, ligneous, acuminate, valves septi- 

 ferous in the middle ; seeds 00, winged. — Tree, native of Japan. 



R. iMPKRi.ii.is. Sieb. (Bignonia tomentosa. Tkunb.) — A splendid tree with 

 the habit of Catalpa, recently introduced in cultivation in this country! 

 Branches crooked, nearly horizontal. Leaves 7 — 12' by 4 — 9', opposite, petio- 

 late, broad cordate-ovate, entire or somewhat trilobate, villous-canescent both 

 sides, smoothish above when full grown. Panicles large, terminal, many- 

 flowered. Corolla U — ^' long, between .violet and rose-color, striped and spot- 

 ted within, f 



6. SCROPHULARIA. 



So named from the resemblance of the roots to scrofulous tumors. 



Calyx in 5 acute segnietits ; corolla subglobose, limb contracted, 

 sub-bilabiate, lip with an internal, intermediate scale (sterile filament) ; 

 capsule 2-celled ; valves with 2 inflated margins. — Herbs or sujfruti- 

 cose, often falid. Lvs. opposite. Cymes in simple or compound Icrminal., 

 tkyrsoid panicles. 



S. NODOSA (and S. Marilandica. Linn. S. lanceolata. Pursh.) PigiDort. 



Glabrous; .■;/. angled; lvs. ovate, ovate-oblong, or the upper lanceolate, 

 acute, serrate or subincised, base broadly cordate or rounded or acutish; Ihj/rse 

 oblong, leafless or scarcely lealy at base; cipiics pedunculate, loosely many- 

 flowered; cal. scgmcnh broadly ovate, obtuse, slightly margined: sterile anUi. 

 broadlv orbicular. Bcvlham.-^1\. In woods and hedges, Can. U. S. and Cal. ; 

 also in Europe. Rare in N. Eng. Stem square, 4— (if high, with paniculate, 

 opposite branches above. Leaves 3 — 7' long, smooth, thin, olten long-acumi- 

 nate. Flowers ovoid, 3 — 4" long. Limb 'very small, suhlabiate, having a 

 green scale (sterile iilament) adnate to the upper side. July — Oct. — The plant 

 is quite variable in the Ibrm of the upp.T leaves and in the development of the 

 panicle; but having observed it in numerous localities in the Middle ^id 

 Western States, I cheerfully concur in the present view ot Mr. Bentham. 



7. COLLINS I A. Nutt. 



Named by I\Ir. N'utlull in hojior of /.. Collins, F.sii., of Philadelphia. 



Calyx 5-cleft ; corolla bilabiate, orifice closed, upper lip bifid, lower 

 trifid, with the middle segment carinately saccate and closed over the 

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