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* Calyx prismatic and barely 5-tootlied, or rarely eanipanulate and hardly 5-clcft : corolla 

 more or less bilabiate : stamens 4. 



13. MIMULUS. Corolla with cither elongated or short tube; ujiper lip 2- and the lower 

 3-lobed or parted; the former often erect and tiie sides turned back; a pair of palatine 

 ridges (either bearded or naked and more or less intruded) running down the lower 

 side of the throat. Stamens inserted low within the throat or on the tube. Anthers 

 generally approximate in pairs, on filiform filaments ; their cells divergent, either distinct 

 or confluent at the apex. Style filiform : stigma bilamellar, or sometimes peltate by the 

 union of the two dilated lips, or rarely even fimnelform. Capsule enclosed in the 

 calyx, loculicidal ; the placentae either firmly united, or in one section barely contiguous 

 in the axis. 



* * Calyx 5-parted : corolla more or less bilabiate : stamens 4, inserted below the throat, 

 included: anther-cells distinct. 



-h- Sepals narrow and nearly alike : capsule septicidal or septifragal. 



14. STEMODIA. Corolla with cylindraceous tube, somewhat erect and hardly 2-lobed 

 upper lip, and more spreading lower one. Anther-cells separate and stipitate. Stigma 

 •2-lol)ed. Capsule with valves soon 2-parted : placentic left in the axis. 



15. CONOBEA. Corolla nearly of the preceding, or more equally 5-lobed. Anther-cells 

 distinct but not stipitate, parallel. Stigma bilamellar. Capsule septifragal ; valves en- 

 tire or rarely 2-cleft. Seeds striate. 



-t— -f— Sepals unequal and imbricated ; the posterior one considerably or much broader than 

 the anterior; the two lateral interior and usually much narrower: capsule septicidal or 

 loculicidal; the valves entire or 2-parted, separating from the undivided placentiferous 

 column. 



16. HERPESTIS. Corolla with short cylindraceous tube, and spreading lips; upper 

 emarginate or 2-lobed; lower 3-lobed, plane. Anther-cells parallel or divergent. Cap- 

 sule globose or ovate. 



* * * Calyx 5-parted or deeply 4-5-lobed : antheriferous stamens only 2, 



-H- The posterior pair ; the anterior pair sterile rudiments or sometimes wanting: flowers 

 not luinute : corcjila manifestly bilabiate ; upper lip entire or 2-lobed ; lower 3-cleft : 

 sepals narrow, little unequal : stigma dilated and mostly bilamellar. 



1 7. GRATIOLA. Corolla with cylindraceous tube and lips nearly of equal length. Sta- 

 mens both fertile (with anther-cells distinct) and sterile inserted below the throat and in- 

 cluded. Capsule both loculicidal and septicidal ; valves separating from the placentif- 

 erous column. Seeds striate and transversely reticulated. 



18. ILYSANTHES. Corolla with cylindraceous tube, or more dilated tlu-oat ; upper lip 

 erect and concave, 2-lobed ; lower larger, spreading, with 3 broad nearly equal lobes. 

 Fertile stamens inserted rather low down and somewhat included: sterile filaments 

 inserted at the orifice and forked; one fork glandular and obtuse; the other smooth and 

 naked, acute, sometimes reduced to a mere tooth, sometimes more elongated and even 

 bearing the rudiment of an anther. Capstile ovoid or oblong, septicidal or septifragal ; 

 the valves entire, at length separating from the placentiferous column. Seeds foveolate- 

 rugose. 



•i— The anterior pair of stamens antheriferous, at least only a single pair antheriferous, 

 and no rudiments of sterile ones : flowers minute : corolla only 4-lobed : anthers short, of 

 roundish distinct cells. 



1 9. MICRANTHEMUM. Calyx usually 4-cleft or 4-lobed. Corolla with very short tube, 

 obscurely bilabiate; its upper lip short or almost none; the lower 3-lobed and the luiddlo 

 lobe longer. Stamens inserted in the throat: filaments short, dilated or appendaged at 

 base. Style short: stigma dilated or 2-lobed. Capsule globular, tliin, becoming 1-celled 

 by the vanishing of the partition, leaving the several-many-seeded placenta in the axis. 

 Seeds oblong, minute. 



20. AMPHIANTHUS. Calyx 5-parted, unequal. Corolla funnelform, with spreading 4- 

 clef t limb ; lobes rounded, one of them larger. Stamens on the tube of the corolla, 

 included: filaments filiform, not appendaged. Style subulate: stigma minutely 2-cleft. 

 Capsule obcordate, compressed, loculicidal ; valves bearing the partition. Seeils numer- 

 ous, linear-oblong, striate, transversely rugulose. 



* * * * Calyx and corolla both 5-lobed and nearly regular : antheriferous stamens 4, 

 nearly equal : no sterile filament. 



21. LIMOSELLA. Calyx campanulatc; the lobes sliort. Corolla between rotate and 

 campanulate ; its lobes oblong or ovate. Stamens borne on the tube of the corolla : fila- 

 ments slender, unappendaged : anthers by confluence 1-celled. Style short: stigma, de- 

 pressed-capitate. Capsule globose-ovoid, 2-celled only at base ; the large central pla- 

 centa many-seeded. Seeds ovoid, rugulose. 



