266 LXXXVII. SCROPHULARIACER. 
flated, 5-fid at the apex. Corolla funnel-shaped ; limb 5-lobed, 
the lobes wide, spreading. Stamens 4, shorter than the co- 
rolla, subdidynamous ; anther-cells apiculate at base. Stigma 
entire, thickened-tongueshaped. Capsule with entire valves. 
—D0C. Prod. x. p. 337. 
Scabrid or hispid herbs, with opposite, sessile, entire or toothed leaves. 
Racemes leafy. Corolla pale.—2 South African species, dispersed. 
15. ALECTRA, Thunb. 
Calyx bell-shaped, leafy, shortly or beyond the middle 5-fid. 
Corolla bell-shaped or subglobose; limb oblique, broadly 5- 
lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, shorter than the corolla; 
anthers mostly dorsally bearded, cells mucronate or bristle- 
tipped at base. Style long, imcurved; stigma thickened- 
tongueshaped, entire or emarginate. Capsule with entire or 
at length 2-fid valves.—DC. Prod. x. p. 337. 
Annuals, rarely root-parasites, with opposite leaves, turning black in — 
drying. Flowers dull-coloured, veiny, in terminal, leafy spikes or racemes. 
—5 South African species, dispersed. 
Trise 5. Grationem. (Gen. 16-27.) 
16. APTOSIMUM, Burch. 
Calyx 5-fid. Corolla tubular, with a long, wide throat and 
spreading, 5-lobed limb; the lobes rounded, flat, equal. Sta- 
mens 4, didynamous, included; anthers externally ciliate- 
hispid, the cells confluent, opening by a single transverse line ; 
those of the back pair often empty. Stigma minutely emar- 
ginate. Capsule short, compressed at the apex, obcordate, the 
valves shortly loculicidal and septicidal at the apex, adhering 
at base to the placentiferous column.—DC. Prod. x. p. 344. 
Very dwarf, prostrate or densely-tufted plants, with ligneous or herba- 
ceous stems. Leaves crowded, quite entire, l-nerved. Flowers sessile, 
axillary, 2-bracteate ; corolla veimy, mostly blue or bluish.—6 South 
African species, dispersed. 
17. PELIOSTOMUM, E. Mey. 
Floral characters as in Aptosimum. Capsule ovate-oblong, 
acute, subcompressed at apex, 2-furrowed, the valves to the 
very base loculicidal, 2-fid or 2-parted, exposing the entire 
placentiferous column.—DC, Prod. x. p. 346. 
Small, rigid, often viscid, branching herbs or undershrubs. Leaves scat- 
tered, entire. Flowers axillary or shortly racemose at the ends of the 
twigs, sessile or pedicellate.—5 species, chiefly from the Northern frontier. 
They differ in habit from the Apéosima, as well as in fruit. 
