BlGNONIALES.] 



SCROPHULARIACEiE. 



681 



Order CCLXIV. SCROPHULARIACE^.— Figworts. 



Scrophulariae.jMjj. Gen. 117. (1789).— Scrovhulaiinex, R. Brotim Prodr.i^iS. (1810) • Bartt Ord Nat 

 169. (1830); Be>itham in Botan. Register, June (1835); Scrophular. /«d ( 835)- 'ifonin Ed PhU 



X^L. ±1. Hr. 3. 573. (18151; Don m Edmb. Phil. Journ. {July, 1835) — Antirrhinp» r>r „uk 

 Duby, 342. (1828).-IIalleriace^, Link Handb. 1. 506. (1829) a § o/ PersonS -sJonarLii 

 n. sp. the same.-Erine^e, lb. 510. the same.-Chelone^/AraLZeB^^ZhSviace^^^^^ 

 Edznb Phil. Journ (July, 1835),-Melampyrace»,ii/c/.. Anal, du' Fruit. (1808) S .TJantl^^c^^^^ 

 Naif. 180. am). (l^l^^-P^^^^'^^^^S' •^"**- ^'«- 99. (1789) in part; Duvau in Ann. d,s Sc 



DixG^osis.—Biynonial Exogem, with axile placenta, albmiinous seeds, and cotyledons 

 scarcely larger, or not so large as the radicle. 



Herbs, under-slunibs, or sometimes slirubs, usually scentless, but sometimes foetid, 

 rarely aromatic. Leaves opposite, whorled, or alternate. Flowers axillary, or racemose, 



rarely spiked. Peduncles opposite or alternate ; 

 sometunes simple and 1 -flowered, sometimes many- 

 flowered in dichotomous cymes. Calyx inferior, 

 persistent, pentamerous, or by abortion tetramerous, 

 the sepals sometimes united almost to the point, 

 sometimes only at their base, sometimes altogether 

 distinct and imbricated, often imequal, the upper one 

 being largest, the two lowest smaUer, the lateral ones 

 smallest. Corolla monopetalous, pentamerous, or, 

 the upper petals being united to their pomts, tetra- 

 merous ; tube short or long ; limb flat or erect, 

 nearly equally divided or bilabiate, imbricated in esti- 

 vation. Stamens in a single series opposite the 

 sepals ; the uppennost altogether deficient, or sterile, 

 or very rarely fertile, and shorter than the others ; 

 the two lateral equal, anthei-iferous or very rarely 

 sterile and abortive ; the lower equal, sometimes 

 fertile and equal to the lateral ones or longer, often 

 sterile or deficient ; anthers 2-celled, or, by growing 

 together or half-disappearing, one-celled, openmg lon- 

 gitudinally. Ovary superior, 2-celled, many-seeded ; 

 style simple or rarely shortly bifid ; stigmatic surface 

 terminal when the style is entire, either very tliin 

 and punctiform, or more or less pulvinate or capi- 

 tate, entire or emarginate ; when the style is bifid 

 the stigmatic surface either lines the inner surface 

 of the lobes, or theii* margins, or rarely fonns a 



Fig. CCCCLX. 



Fig. CCCCLX. — 1. Digitalis purpurea ; 2. corolla of Antirrhinum oiajus cut open ; 3. its pistil ; 4. its 

 ripe fruit ; 5. cross section of its ovary ; 6. section of its seed. 



