Conobea. SCROPHULARIACE^. 279 



-1— -1— H— Scapose, i.e. peduncles scape-like: leaves 3-5-nerved, sessile. 



M. primuloides, Benth. Perennial by filiform stolons : leaves all radical in a rosulate 

 tuft, or crowded on an upright stem of 1 to 3 inches in height, soft-villous when young, 

 glabrate with age, from obovate to oblanceolate, sparsely and sharply serrate or nearly 

 entire, from 5 to 1(5 lines long : filiform and often solitary pedicels (1 to 4 inches long) and 

 cylindraccous calyx glabrous : corolla golden-yellow, f unnelform, a quarter to three-fourths 

 incli long. — Scroph. Ind. 1. c, & DC. 1. c. ; Kegel, Gartenfl. 1872, t. 739 ; Gray, 1. c. — 

 Wet soil, through the Sierra Nevada, California, at 6-10,000 feet, extending to the Blue 

 Mountains of Oregon. Like the other species varies greatly in size of flower as well as in 

 stature. 



§ 4. MiMULOiDES, Gray. Annual, with corolla of Emnimulus, capsule with 

 the divided placentae of Eananiis, but the calyx campanulate and 5-cleft ; its tube 

 not prismatic nor even carinate-angled, but almost nerveless ; its lobes plane : 

 stigma bilamellar. — Herpestis § Mimidoides, Benth. 



M. pilosus, W^atson. A span to a foot high, at length much branched, leafy, soft-vil- 

 lous and sliglitly viscid, rarely glabrate, flowering from near the base : leaves lanceolate or 

 narrowly oblong, sessile, entire, obscurely 3-nerved at base; the lower surpassing and the 

 upjier hardly equalling the pedicels : calyx oblique at orifice ; the tube somewhat 5-sulcate 

 below the sinuses ; the posterior tooth equalling and the others shorter than the tube ; all 

 oblong or ovate, rather shorter than the bright yellow (3 or 4 lines long) rather obscurely 

 bilabiate corolla : lobes of the latter nearly equal, usually a pair of brown-purple spots on 

 the lower: capsule oblong-ovate, acute. — Bot. King, 22-5; Gray, I.e. M. ea-///s, Durand 

 in Pacif. R. Rep. v. 12, t. 12. Herpestis (Mimidoides) pilosa, Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 ii. 57, & DC. 1. c. 394. — Gravelly soil along streams, nearly throughout California, and 

 along the borders of Nevada to Arizona. 



14. STEM6DIA, L. (Name shortened by Linnaeus from P. Browne's 

 Stemodiacra, meaning stamens with two tips, in reference to the disjoined stipi- 

 tate anther-cells.) — Chiefly tropical species, herbaceous or slightly shrubby, one 

 reaching our borders. 



S. durantifolia, Swartz. Annual with indurated base, or sometimes perennial, viscid- 

 pubescent : leaves either opposite or 3— 4-nate, from oblong- to linear-lanceolate, serrate or 

 denticulate, narrowed below and with somewliat dilated partly clasping base : inflorescence 

 spiciform, leafy below: calyx 2-bracteolate : corolla purplish, quarter inch long. — Obs. 

 t. 240; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 383. Capraria dumntifolia, h. Sleinodia verticillaris, liink ; 

 Reichenb. Ic. Exot. ii. t. 149. — Wet grounds, S. Arizona. (Trop. Am.) 



15. CONOBEA, Aublet. (Unexplained name.) — Low or spreading an- 

 nuals, all American ; with opposite leaves, and small flowers on axillary pedicels, 

 2-bracteolate under the calyx. — Our species belong to 



§ 1. Leucospora. Leaves pinnately 3-7 -parted into cuneate-linear divisions: 

 anther-cells completely disjoined but contiguous : seeds striate-costate. — Leuco- 

 spora, Nutt., with Schistopliragma, Benth. in Endl. Gen. & DC. Prodr. x. 392. 



C. multifida, Benth. 1. c. A span high, diffusely branched, minutely viscid-pubescent: 

 pedicels as long as the greenish-white and i>urplish corolla : sepals very slender : capsule 

 ovate : seeds small, white, longitudinally eostate. — Capraria mnltijida, Michx. Fl. ii. 22, 

 t. 35. Stemodia multijida, Spreng. Syst. ii. 811. Leucospora multifida, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. 

 Pliilad. vii. 87. Sutera multifida, Walp. Rep. iii. 271. — Along streams and shores, Ohio to 

 Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas : also adventive below Philadelphia. 



C. intermedia, Gray. More viscid-pubescent : pedicels shorter than the calyx : sepals 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate; the posterior one rather longer: corolla larger (3 lines long): 

 capsule ovoid-lanceolate: seeds larger, spirally eostate. — Bot. ]\Iex. Bound. 117. — New 

 Mexico and Arizona, Wriijht, Rothrock. 



