Mazus.) SCROPHULARIACEAE. $23 
Orver LXI. SCROPHULARIACEAE. 
Flowers irregular or seldom nearly regular. Sepals 5, either free or 
more frequently united into a lobed or toothed calyx, persistent. Corolla 
usually bilabiate, but sometimes nearly regular, with 4, (4, or rarely more 
fth 
stamen, between the two upper lobes, usually deficient or rudimentary. 
Ovary 2-celled, with several ovules in each cell. Style simple, with a 
2-lobed or rarely entire stigma. Fruit a 2-celle psule or rarely an 
indehiscent berry. Seeds ooinbanie: Embryo straight or rarely curved. 
— Herbs, or rarely shrubs or small trees. ae usually opposite or 
whorled in the lower part of Fé plant, alternate higher up, but sometimes 
all opposite or all alternate, without stipules. Flowers in terminal racemes 
or cymes, or more rarely axillar 
A large Order, widely dispersed over every part of the globe. 
Calyx of 5 free sepals : 1. Herpestis. 
Calyx 5-lobed * pone ‘the middle - Mazus. 
1. HERPESTIS, Gaertn. fil 
Sepals 5, distinct, the lowest one much the broadest. 
the upper lip emarginate or 2-lobed, 
Corolla with a 
pairs, the anthers all with 2 perfect contiguous cells. 
the top, concave or slightly 2-lobed. Capsule opening into two va 
which are sometimes cleft so as to appear 4-valved, leaving a free central 
column. — Herbs, sometimes aquatic. Leaves opposite. Flowers raves 
or in helper racemes, without or rarely with bracteoles under t 
Ac nsiderable tropical and subtropical genus, chiefly American, with a few net das 
natives of the rid, 
1. H, Monnieria, H. B. ¢ K. — Benth. in DC. Prod. X, 400. — A low 
Leaves obovate or belong: generally sce 
creeping glabrous annual. 
long, thick fleshy, entire, rounded, cuneate at the base, on very short 
petioles, without prominent veins, or obscurely 1—3- rved. Flowers 
on pedi 
generally ey in the axils, white or pale blue, rather sm: 
cels usually longer than the leaves, with 2 small bracteoles andar the 
ca sles Outer sepal ovate. — Bot. eres tab. 2557. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 249. 
apa in marshes near the sea. Oahu, Waikiki; Maui, Lahaina, and elsewhere 
marsh plants throughout the ‘tropical regions of both Worlds, 
aryland. 
One oft commones 
in Hindman extending north as far as M 
2. MAZUS, Lour. 
Calyx broadly campanulate, 5-lobed. Corolla with the upper lip erect, 
vate, shortly 2-lobed, the lower one longer, spreading, 3- se em 
