Spigella. LOGANIACEiE. 107 



3. MITREOLA. Calyx 5-partecl ; tlie lobes lanceolate. Corolla small, urceolate, bearded 

 in the throat. Stamens 5, short: anthers cordate. Ovary 2-celled and with a broad tip : 

 style short, early dividing into two from the base, united by a common stigma, soon 

 wholly separate and divergent. Capsule divaricately 2-lobed or 2-horned at summit, de- 

 hiscent by the ventral sutiu'e of each lobe. Seeds numerous, small, on stipitate jjlacenta^. 

 Embryo linear, nearly the length of the fleshy albumen. 



* * Corolla imbricated in the bud, 4-lobed, sometimes G-lobed : embryo small and straight 

 in fleshy albumen. Pentamei'ous flowers occasionally occur. 



H— Calyx deeply 4-5-parted : capsule loculicidal : annual herb. 



4. POLYPREMUM. Corolla campanulate, beai'ded in the throat, sliorter than the subu- 

 late foliaceous sepals. Stamens 4, inserted low on the tube of the corolla, included : 

 anthers ovate. Style short: stigma capitate, entire or obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule glo- 

 bular-ovoid but slightly comj^ressed contrary to the partition and didymous, loculicidally 

 2-valved and at length somewhat septicidal. Seeds numerous on oblong plaeentaj ascend- 

 ing from near the base of the partition, minute, smooth. 



H 1— Calyx 4-toothed or 4-cleft : capsule septicidal, globose or oblong ; valves mostly 2- 



clef t at apex and separating fi-om the united placentaj : shrubs, with leaves often dentate ! 



5. BUDDLEIA. Calyx campanulate. Corolla rotate-campanulate (or sometimes salver- 

 form) ; the lobes ovate or orbicular. Anthers 4, sessile or almost so in the throat or tube 

 of the corolla, ovate or oblong-cordate. 



6. EMORY A. Calyx oblong, 4-cleft ; the lobes linear-subulate. Corolla salverform, with 

 tube somewhat enlarged above ; the short lobes ovate. Stamens exserted : fliaments fili- 

 form and elongated, inserted on the middle of the tube : anthers cordate-oblong. Style 

 very long and filiform. 



1. GELSEMIUM, Juss. " Yellow Jessamine " of S. States. ( Gelsemino, 

 an Italian name of the Jessamine.) — Twining and glabrous shrubby plants, with 

 a mere line marking the place of the minute glandular caducous stipules, con- 

 necting the bases of the opposite or .sometimes ternate entire leaves ; the flowers 

 showy, in ours heterogoiie-dimorphous, fragrant, produced in sprino-. — Two E. 

 Asian species and the following. 



G. sempervirens, Ait. Stems slender, climbing high : leaves evergreen, thin-coriaceous, 

 shining, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate (1^ to 2^ inches long) : peduncles very short, axillary, 

 scaly-bracteolate, cymosely 1-o-flowered : corolla deep yellow, over an inch long : stigmas 

 of one form and anthers of the other protruding : capsule deeply sulcate down the flat 

 sides, cuspidate-pointed. — Gelseminnm seu Jasmhmm luteum odoratum, etc., Catesb. Car. 

 i. 53, t. 53. Blijnonia sempervirens, L. Spec. ii. 023. Anonjimos sempervirens, Walt. Car. 99. 

 Gelsemiiim nitidnm, Michx. Fl. i. 120. G. lucidum, Poir. " Herb. Amat. 3, t. 169." — Woods 

 and low grounds, E. Virginia to Florida and Texas. (Mex.) 



2. SPIG-£lLIA, L. PiXK-uooT. (Adrian Spiegel, latinized Spigellus, a 

 Dutch botanist of the 17th century.) — Herbs, rarely suffruticose (all American), 

 usually low ; with membranaceous and more or less pinnately veined entire leaves, 

 and small interpetiolar stipules or a transverse membranous line. Upper portion 

 of the style usually, but not always, furnished with pollen-collecting hairs : the 

 stigma terminal, usually emarginate or 2-lobed : lower part or base of the style 

 persistent. — Our si)ecies glabrous, or merely scabrous-puberulent on the veins, 

 &c. : stems 4-aiigled : flowering in early summer. 



§ 1. Flowers skowy, unilateral-spicate on the single or sometimes geminate or 

 umbellate and naked terminal peduncles of a scorpioid inflorescence: bracts 

 minute and subulate or wanting : corolla red or pink, elongated-tubidar, not plicate 

 and the edges of the lobes slightly or not at all turned outward in the bud : anthers 

 and especially the summit of the style exserted ; the articulation of the latter low 

 down : root perennial, fibrose. 



