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4 Corolla sacculate, foveolate or spurred at base, 

 two back lobes outermost in bud. Capsule 

 locidicidal, or dehiscing by pores or slits 

 from or near the apex. 



4 Corolla lobes flat, not saccate, not spurred, one 

 or both back lobes interior in bud Herbs 

 mostly parasitical or half parasitical. 



AXTIRRHINIDE^. 



Gerrardiej:. 



KEY TO GENERA. 



APTOSIME^. 



Low shrubs. Stamens 4, all the anthers perfect. 

 Capsule ovoid-conical, acute, compressed at 

 apex. The only Natal genus. Peliostomum. 



DIGITALE^. 



Leaves opposite. Corolla tube very short, 4-lobed, 

 lobes patent. Stamens 2. Capsule loculi- 

 cidal. The only Xatal genus. Veronica. 



HEMIMERIDE^. 



Corolla not resupinate (in Natal species). Stamens 4, 

 front pair sometimes sterile. The only 

 Natal genus. 



CHELONE.^. 



Leaves decussate, fleshy. Flowers red. Fruit fleshy, 

 indehiscent. 



Leaves usually ternately verticillate, sub-coriaceous. 

 Flowers white or tinged with pink. Fruit 

 capsular, septicidal. 



Leaves opposite, not decussate. Fruit baccate, 

 indehiscent. 



Leaves opposite, not decussate. Fruit capsidar, 

 septicidal. 

 1 Calyx 3-.5 cleft. Corolla tube much longer thnn 



calyx. Tree. Halleria. 



1 Calyx 5-partite. Corolla not much longer than 



calyx. Undershrub. Teedia. 



2 Flowers large, orange to dull purple. Under- 

 shrub. Phygeltus. 



2 Flowers smaller, yellow with reddish faint mark- 

 ings. Tree. Axastrabe. 



NEMIE^. 



Bracts free from calyx and pedicel. 

 Bracts adnate to calyx or pedicel. 



DiASClA. 



Dermatobotrys. 

 bowkeria. 



