274 LXXXVIII. LEXTTBULAEINEiE. 



or 2-dentate. Corolla personate, spurred under the lower 

 lip ; upper lip erect, subentire ; lower longer, 3-lobed, with a 

 2)rominent palate. Style or fililbrm. Capsules many- 

 seeded. — DC. Frod. \'n\. p. 3. 



Small aquatic or marsh herbs, often floating by means of small bladders, 

 in which case the submerged leaves are multifid ; most of the Cape species 

 are terrestrial, growing in damp spots, and these have narrow, linear, tufted 

 radical leaves, often without bladders. Scapes naked. Flowers racemose, 

 blue purple or yellow. — 4 or 5 Cape species, dispersed. 



2. GENLISEA, St. Hil. 



Calyx 5-parted, subequal, spreading. Corolla personate, 

 the upper lip entire, lower 3-lobed, spurred at base. Style 

 scarcely any. — DC. Prod. \\\i. p. 25. 



Marsh plants, resembling the terrestrial Vtriciilarice, with radical, tufted, 

 entire leaves. Scapes racemose; flowers yellow or violet; pedicels 3- 

 bracted at base. — 1 Cape species. Eastern. 



Order LXXXIX. OROBANCHE^. 



Calyx di\aded, persistent. Corolla irregular, mostly 2- 

 labiate, persistent, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4, didynamous ; 

 anthers 2-celled. Ovary on a fleshy, unilateral disk (sometimes 

 reduced to a gland), 1-celled, with 2 opposite pairs of parietal 

 placentas ; ovules many ; style simple ; stigma 2-lobed. Cap- 

 sule 1-celled, enclosed within the withered corolla. Seeds 

 minute, with much albumen. — Leafless or scaly parasites on 

 the roots of other plants. 



1. PHELIPJEA, Tourn. 



Flowers bisexual, 2-bracteolate. Calyx tubular, 4-5-fid or 

 toothed. Corolla ringent, the upper lip erect, 2-fid, lower 

 spreading, 3-fid. Ovary wdth 4 geminate, parietal placentas ; 

 hypogynous gland obsolete ; stigma ca]ntate-2-lobed. Cap- 

 sules 2-valved at the apex, the valves cohering below. Seeds 

 very minute and numerous. — DC. Prod. xi.p. 8. 



P. ramosa, C. A. Mey. {Orobanche ramosa, Linn.), gi'ows in the Capo 

 flats, near the Salt river. It has a tuberous- based branching stem, the 

 branches ending in spikes of pale purple, downy flowers. It is also a 

 native of Europe, Siberia, and Abyssinia. 



Order XC. BIGNONIACE^. 



Calyx 5-6-lobed or truncate, sometimes splitting down one 

 side or 2-labiate. Corolla 5-6-lobed, hyj^ogynous, deciduous, 

 more or less unequal or 2-lipped, imbricate in bud. Stamens 

 on the tube, 4 perfect, didynamous, witli or without the rudi- 



