BopaMum.} ■ LXXXTii. scropiiulakinej:. ^9^ 



r 



cells usually divaricate and often confluent. Capsule opening ui 2 memln-a- 

 nous entire valves, parallel to the broad tliin dissepiment. 



Like the majority of Euoratioh,B, the species are chiefly abui.daut in marslies or ri J 

 moist soils, and are more or less glandular- dotted. The principal genera are '=l'>''el> « ^-f • 

 and often distinguished chiefly by characters derived from the f tamens, w uch are dM 

 ascertain in driol specimens o'wing to the delicacy of the corollas, but said to be ^adily .een 

 in living plants. P. Mueller proposes the reuniting several °f t^<^™ ."""^f , ^^f//"^ V/ 

 IMemlaK. of YandeUia, but that would entail the regarding the who e ^^^tTihe as a ge- 

 nus, of which the present genera, would be sections. This would appear to me t-^ b^ ™°;^ >* 

 nominal than a real cliange, involving aU the inconvenience of a great addition to the »J uo- 

 nymy without any corresponding advantage. 



12. ARTANEMA, Don. 



Calyx deeply divided into 5 herbaceous acuminate segments dilated and 

 much "imbricate at the base. Corolla with a long broad tube the upper lip 

 broad and notched, the lower 3-lobed. Perfect stamens 4 the_ anthers co- 

 hering iu pairs with divaricate cells, the upper stamens mcluded ui the tuDe; 

 filaments of the lower ones aduatc almost to the throat, longand arched, with 

 a broad appendage near the base. Style with 2 flat stigmatic lobes. ^ Cap- 

 sule olohular, opening in 2 thin valves parallel to the broad thm dissepiment^ 

 -Erect herbs. Leaves opposite, powers large, pedicellate in the axils of 

 small bract-like floral leaves, without bracteoles. 



lie genus consists of only three closely allied species, one of t1^^"»/'^;tf«J;«"' ^'l.^jjj'^ 

 from tropical Asia. It only ditfers from Vandelha m the larger flowers, broader caly x- 



Tlie 

 two 



segments, and iu the shape of the stamiual append 



Gard. ser. 2. t. 234. An 



erect rather coarse annual (or sometimes perennial ?) of 1 to 2 It., the ang e 

 of the stems and upper surface of the leaves scabrous, otherwise glabio i. 

 Lower leaves petiolate and ovate-lanceolate, upper ones more sessde and lan- 

 ceolate, sometimes very narrow, the larger ones 2 to 4 m. long, all more o less 

 serrate or rarely entire. Flowers violet, in distant pairs forniing veiy^Ioo.e 

 terminal racemes, the floral leaves rednced to small bracts. M^^;= ^/'^ I 

 .in. long. Calyx-segments 3 to 4 lines long, the points ^'^^\ '^l"^':'^- 

 Corolla above 1 in. long ; lobes broad and rounded, °^/"f li^/"^^,^'";, J 

 crenulate or jagged. Appendage of the lower filaments broad, loimckd and 

 scn!p.i;i-. n.".^.„i„ Q +/j. i;nP« dinmeter.— Benth. in DC. Frotl x. 4U» , 



scale-like. Capsule 3 to 4 Unes diameter^ 

 <irah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3104. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton B.J Fr.serF. Mueller, and others ; ^'ide 

 M.BMI (with narrow leaves) ; Rockingham Lay 2). /^.g.j^^ Henderson 



"Wales 



F 



13. VATJ'DEIiLIA, Linn. 



Calyx either divided to the base into 5 ^'TV"""T'^"iZT.^.?Zt\ 

 ft^ore ir less cohering into a short 5-toothed calyx (not ff ^^ ;"^' F«' ' 

 ^«% angled, as in Torenia). Corolla tubular at the base the uppei hp 

 erect, shortly 2-lobed, the lower lip larger, spreadmg, 3-lobed. Peifect sfa- 

 «ieus 4, the anthers cdiering in pairs, with divaricate cells, the upper stamens 



