504 Lxxxiii. scROPiiULARiNEiE. [Capram. 



Icnown to me from A. Gra^^'s character, from which the above is taken. We have no speci- 

 men, and it has not, as yet, turned up in any other collection. 



21. SCOPAEIA, Linn. 



Calyx divided to the base into 4 or 5 segments. Corolla rotate, 4-lobed, 

 liairy at the throat, the lobes imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4; anthers 

 sagittate. Style slightly club-shaped at the top, truncate or emarginate. 

 Capsule opening septicidally in 3 entire valves, leaving the placental column 

 free. — Much-branched herbs or low undershrubs. Leaves opposite or 

 whorled. Pedicels axillary, usually 2 together, without bracteoles. 



The j^enus consists of but few species, all South American, including the Austrahan one, 

 which is now a common weed in almost all tropical regions- 



L S. dulcis, Linn.; Benth, in DC, Trod, x. 431. A much-branched 

 glabrous annual (or sometimes perennial?), erect or decumbent at the base, 

 1 to 3 ft. high. Leaves usually in whorls of 3, oblong-lanceolate or the 

 upper ones linear in the Australian specimens, the lower ones broader, in some 

 American ones dentate, narrowed into a petiole often rather long, the lamina 

 varying from \ to \\ in. Mowers numerous, small, white, on filiform pedi- 

 cels of 2 to 4 lines. Calyx-segments 4, ovate-oblong, about 1 line long. 

 Corolla about 3 lines diameter. Capsule rather longer than the calyx. 

 B. Br. Prod. 443. 



4 



N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, F, MneUer. ^ . , 



Queensland. Broad Sound, R Brown, Bowman ; Shoalwater Bay, B- Brown ; Lmra 



Island, M'Gillivraij; Nerkool Creek, Bowman; Eockingham Bay, Ballachj ; Rockhanip- 



tou, Dallachy^ O'Shanesy. 



The 



22. VERONICA, Linn. 



Calyx deeply divided into 4 or rarely 5 segments. Corolla either rotate or 



yith a distinct tube and spreading limb ; lobes 4 or very rarely 5, imbricate 

 m the bud, the lateral ones or one of them outside. Stamens 3, inserted m 

 the tube and exserted from it; anthers with confluent cells, without points 

 or awns. Style filiform, with an undivided somewhat capitate stigma. /-aP* 

 sule compressed or turgid, furrowed on each side, either septicidally dehiscent 

 with the placentas separating^ or loculicidally dehiscent with the valves 

 remaining adherent to the undivided placental column, or separating from it 

 aud septicidally bifid. Seeds ovate or orbicular, compressed, attached by ttie 

 inner flat concave or slightly convex surface, the outer surface more or less 

 convex.— Herbs undershrubs or shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely the uppe 

 ones alternate, the floral leaves or bracts always alternate. Flowers blue 

 pmk or white, solitary in the axfls of the floral leaves or bracts, without oi 

 very rarely with bracteoles, forming usually terminal or axillary racemes. 



A large genus, alundant ia the temperate aiid cdder regions of the northern hemisphere, m 

 Ne« Zealand and the Auta.etic regions, asceudiug to great elevations and Wgh l^titad^, 

 with a very few tropical spec.es and those chiefly in mountain regions or descending along 

 reums _ Of the fifteen Austrdian species, one 'is a common American weed, Vl'^f}^^^^ 

 troduced in Australia; another is equally common in the ten.perate regions of the Ne« j;"^ 

 he Old A\orld, as vvell as in tropical mountains, and may be indigenous in Austnil.a' » 

 third is appai-entlj the same as a New Zealand species j the remaining twelve are endemic 



