266 LXXXYII. SCROPItULAEIACE^. 



flated, 5-fid at the apex. Corolla funnel-shaped ; limb 5-lobed, 

 the lobes wide, spreading. Stamens 4, shorter than the co- 

 rolla, subdidyuamous ; anther-cells apiculate at base. Stigma 

 entire, thickened-tongueshaped. Capsule with entire valves. 

 —DC. Prod. X. p. 337. 



Scabrid or hispid herbs, with opposite, sessile, entire or toothed leaves. 

 Bacemes 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, incurved ; 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. 



Teibe 5. Geatiole^. (G-en. 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. — DO. Prod. x. p. 344. 



Yery dwarf, prostrate or densely-tufted plants, with ligneous or herba- 

 ceous stems. Leaves crowded, quite entire, 1-nerved. Flowers sessile, 

 axillary, 2-bracteate ; corolla veiny, mostly blue or bluish. — 6 South 

 African species, dispersed. 



17. PELIOSTOMUM, E. Mey. 



Floral characters as in Jptosimum. Capsule ovate-oblong, 

 acute, subcompressed at apex, 2-furrowed, the valves to the 

 very base locuHcidal, 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 Aptosima^ as well as in fruit. 



