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Ecot parasites, with fleshy stems, drying black, glabrous or hairy. 

 Leaves, in the South African species, scale-hke. Flowers sessile or pedi- 

 eelled, in terminal leafy spikes or racemes. In the majority the stem, leaf- 

 scales, calyx and corolla are brilliantly orange or scarlet ; in others purple, 

 less bright. — 7 or 8 species, dispersed. 



41. HABVEYA, Hook. 



Calyx inflated-bellshapcd, leafy, 5-angled, semi-5-fid. Co- 

 rolla with a long, curved tube, slightly constricted in the 

 middle, inflated above ; limb somewhat ringent, 5-lobed ; the 

 lobes wavy, lateral reflexed. Stamens didynamous, included ; 

 1 cell of each anther fertile, ovate, acuminate, the other longer, 

 subulate, empty. Style abruptly capitate at the apex. Cap- 

 sule with entire valves.— DC. Frod. \.p. 524 ; Hook. Ic. PI. 1. 118. 



H. Capensis, Hook., is a root-parasite, drying black. Stems hairy ; leaf- 

 scales ovate, opposite or the upper alternate. Flowers large and handsome, 

 white or rosy, in terminal racemes. 



TllIBE 10. EuPHRASIEiE. 



42. TRIXAGO, Stev. 



Calyx inflated-bellshaped, shortly 4-lobed. Corolla ringent, 

 the galea concave, its margins not reflexed, the lower lip 

 equalling or exceeding the galea, 3-lobed ; lobes spreading ; 

 palate 2-gibbous. Stamens didynamous, under the galea ; 

 anther-cells mucronate. Style thickened and obtuse at apex. 

 Capsules ovate-globose, turgid, with thick, 2-fid placentas. — 

 DC. Frod. x.p. 543. 



T. Apula, Stev. {Bartsia Capensis, Spr.), a very widely-dispersed annual, 

 is also frequent at the Cape. Stem 3 in. to 1-2 ft. high, simple or branched, 

 hispid or villous, more or less viscid. Leaves lanceolate or linear, opposite, 

 dentate. Flowers yellow, in terminal leafy spikes. 



Order LXXXVIII. LENTIBULARINE^. 



Calyx divided, persistent. Corolla 2-labiate, spurred or 

 saccate at base. Stamens 2, in the base of the corolla ; an- 

 thers 1-celled by confluence. Ovary free, 1-celled ; ovules 

 many, on a free central, globose placenta ; style short ; stigma 

 2-lamellate. Fruit capsular, 1-celled, opening transversely or 

 by a longitudinal cleft. Seeds minute, without albumen. — 

 Small, herbaceous, marsh or water plants, with crowded radi- 

 cal leaves, which are often abortive, and yellow or purple 

 flowers on slender scapes. 



Calyx 2-parted l'. Uteiculaeia. 



Calyx 5-parted 2. Genlisea. 



1. UTBICULARIA, Linn. 



Calyx 2-parted, the upper lobe entire, the lower emarginate 



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