Anticharis.~] cm. SCROPHULARINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 249 



SFBTRIBE III. EUGERARDIE^:. Calyx various. Corolla-tube short or 

 broad, rarely slender ; limb spreading-, upper lobes interior in bud. Anther-cells 

 equal, or one smaller and imperfect. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves all, or the 

 lower, oppositej 



Calyx spathaceous, compressed 44. CENTRANTHERA. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Anthers with one cell 



stipitate and empty 45. SOPUBIA. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Anther-cells subequal. 



Ovary many-ovuled 46. MICRARGERIA. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate. Anther-cells equal. Ovary 



4-ovuled 47. LEPTORHABDOS. 



TRIBE IX. Euplirasieae. Corolla 2-lipped, upper lip erect, concave or 

 hooded, interior in bud ; lower usually spreading. Anther-cells distinct, bases 

 usually mucronate. Herbs, often parasitic, black when dry. Leaves opposite or 

 alternate. Inflorescence centripetal. 



* Cells of ovary more than 2-ovuled. Margins of upper lip of corolla 

 reflexed. 



Seeds numerous, ovoid, reticulate. Flowers axillary ... 48. PHTHEIROSPERMTJM. 

 Seeds numerous, oblong, striate. Flowers spicate . . . 49. EUPHRASIA. 

 Seeds numerous, ellipsoid 50. EMMENOSPERMUM. 



** Cells of ovary more than 2-ovuled. Margins of hood of corolla straight. 



Calyx 4-toothed or 4-fid. Leaves opposite 51. BARTSIA. 



Calyx split in front, 2-5-toothed. Leaves alternate or 



whorled 52. PEDICULARIS. 



Leaves 53. LATHR^EA. 



*** Cells of ovary 2-ovuled. 

 Upper tip of corolla compressed. Leaves opposite ... 54. MELAMPYRUM. 



GENUS OF DOUBTFUL POSITION (NEAR Wulfenia?). 



Sepals 5. Corolla-tube long. Stamens 4, didynamous, in- 

 cluded ; anthers peltate, cells confluent 55. OREOSOLEN. 



TRIBE I. AFTOSIMEJE. 



1. ANTXCHARXS, Endl. 



Erect, small, annual, viscid herbs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary. Sepals narrow, subvalvate. Corolla-tube long, dilating into 

 the throat ; lobes 5, flat, subequal. Stamens 2 lower perfect ; anthers transverse, 

 curved ; staminodes 0. Style filiform, stigma obtuse or notched. Capsule ovoid 

 or oblong, acuminate, loculicidal and septicidal ; valves with inflexed margins 

 separating from the axis. Seeds numerous, minute, ellipsoid, striate ; embryo 

 straight. Species 4, Tropical and S. African, Oriental, and Indian. 



1. A. g-landulosa, Aschers. in Bericht. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1866, 880; 

 densely glandular-hispid, leaves oblong or ovate obtuse, pedicels equalling the 

 calyx or shorter, corolla glabrous, sepals three-fourths as long as the capsule. 

 oiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 423. Distemon glandulosus, Ehrb. $ Hempr. mss. 



, Stocks, Vicary. DISTRIB. Upper Egypt. 

 A foot high, or less, leafy. Leaves -1 in., narrowed into a short petiole. Flowers 



