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with the persistent bases of the leaves; young branches very 
short, leafy, thinly setose with gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 
lobes broadly oblong, crenulate, 6 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. 
Stamens 10, a little longer than the tube; filaments pubescent 
in the lower third; anthers broad, about 1-5 mm. long. Ovary 
densely pubescent; style abruptly reflexed through the sinus 
of the corolla, 5 mm. long, pubescent in the lower half; stigma 
discoid, lobulate. Fruits not seen. 
DistRIpuTion.—Manchuria and according to Komaroy, l.c., 
through Kamtschatka into Alaska. The plant from the latter 
place, however, may be that described by Small as 7’. glandu- 
losum. I have seen only the specimen collected by James in 
Manchuria. 
A REVISION OF THE GENUS CAPRARIA: 
T. A. SPRAGUE. ’ 
The genus Capraria (Scrophulariaceae-Digitaleae) eg ao 
i i ica, 
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regular or somewhat bilabiate corolla and five or four stamens. 
The capsule is septicidal with a large’ central column, and each 
valve splits more than half way down the dorsal suture. The 
commonest species, C. bz , Linn., has become naturalized 
in the Cape Verde Islands, the Gold Coast and Mauritius, but 
unlike many tropical American weeds has not yet reached Indo- 
Malaya or Polynesia. 
The closest relationship of Capraria is with Scoparia; both 
genera possess pellucid-dotted leaves, the dots being due to 
the presence of external peltate glands which are imbedded 
in small depressions in the surface of the leaf. In Bentham 
- and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum Scoparia and Capraria are 
placed side by side, but in Wettstein’s arrangement in Engler u. 
Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., the Asiatic genus H emiphragma, 
which has relatively little in common with either, is intercalated 
between them. This is due to his adoption of an analytical 
classification, in which the alternate-leaved genera precede the 
opposite-leaved ones. : 
