SCROPHULARIACEiE. (FIGWOET FAMILY.) 599 



a tooth at each side of base, lower lip acutely trifid ; palate biconvex. 

 Stamens 4, didynaraous under the hood ; anthers glabrous, transverse, 

 with equal, mucronate cells. Capsule ovoid, acuminate, loculicidal 

 below tip, valves leathery, bearing long, coherent, bifid, dilated septa 

 dividing the cells nearly to their middle. Seeds few, large, attached 

 laterally near base, oblong-triquetrous, with thickened margin — 

 Tufted herbs with aspect of Ajuga chamajpithys. 



B. trifidss, Vahl. 21 .1 to .15, hirsute ; stems brittle, numerous, 

 from a woody rootstock, erect or decumbent, simple, densely leafy, 

 spiked almost from base. Leaves, some linear, others tripartite into 

 linear lobes. Flowers .03 long, subsessile ; bracts linear, as long as 

 calyx ; calyx-lobes 1-nerved, linear, acute, rigid, much longer than 

 tube, longer than corolla ; corolla yellowish, velvety, tube long ; cap- 

 sule long-beaked — June — Hills south of Qaryetein. 



IS. EUFI£A<kIA, Griseb. Eupragia. 



Calyx tubular, 4-cleft. Corolla tubular, cylindrical, the upper lip 

 hooded, not plaited, the palate convex, and the lower lip spreading, 3- 

 lobed. Stamens didynamous, the cells of the anthers mucronate. Cap- 

 sule oblong or lanceolate, somewhat compressed. Seeds numerous, 

 minute, not grooved — Annual, viscid herbs, 



1. E. latifoEia, L. .1 to .3. Leaves .01 long, nearly sessile, 

 the lowest crenate, the upper nearly palmatilobed. Spike ovate, at 

 length elongated, and interrupted below ; calyx-teeth oblong, shorter 

 than tube ; corolla .01 long, purple to whitish, lower lip about as long 

 as upper ; anthers glalrrous — Spring — Fields and roadsides ; com- 

 mon. 



2. E. -^licosfi, L. © .3 to .5. Leaves .02 to .03 long, oblong^ 

 crenate-dentate. Spikes long, loose ; calyx-lobes linear, scarcely short- 

 er than tube ; corolla .015 long, yellow, lower lip longer than upper ; 

 anthers hairy — Spring — Fields along coast ; lower zone of Lebanon ; 

 Gilead. 



14. TISIXACrO, Stev. Trixago. 



Calyx dilated-campanulate, short-4-cleft. Corolla cylindrical with 

 bigibbous palate, and galeate upper lip, without plaited margins ; 

 lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens didynamous, with mucronate anther-cells. 

 Capsule ovate, turgid, with thickened, bifid placentas. Seeds minute, 

 very numerous, longitudinally nerved — Annual herbs, drying-black. 



T. ApuSa, Stev. .3 to .6, glandular-hairy above. Leaves ses- 

 sile or clasping, oblong-lanceolate to linear, .03 to .06 long, obtusely 

 serrate-dentate. Spike dense, ovate, .02 to .04 long, at length oblong; 

 calyx-teeth ovate, one-fourth to one-fifth as long as tube ; corolla .02 

 long, purple or variegated, lower lip longer than upper ; anthers hairy ; 

 capsule ovate-globular — Spring — Common throughout. 



Var. flaTiflora, Boiss. Corolla yellow — With type. 

 15. ODOl^TITES, Haller. Odontites. 



Calyx 4-cleft, tubular or campanulate. Upper lip of corolla entire 

 or retuse, not plaited ; lower lip trifid, with entire lobes ; palate not 



