232 FIGWORT FAMILY. 



24. CHELOXE. Low upright smooth herb?, with flowers sessile in spikes or 

 clusters in the axils of the upper leaves, ami accompanied by closely imbri- 

 cated concave roundish bracts and hractlets. Corolla short-tubular and 

 inflated, concave underneath, with the 2 broad lips only slightly ojn; the 

 upper arched, keeled in the middle, notched at the a'pcx; the lower one 

 woolly bearded in the throat and 3-lobcd at the end. Filaments and anthers 

 woolly: sterile lihunent shorter than the others. Seeds winded. 



26. PENTSTKMOX. Herb* (or a lew shrubby at base), with mostly upright 

 stems branching only from the base, mid panicled or almost racemed flowers. 

 Corolla tubular, bell-shaped, funnel-form, &c., more or less 2-lipped, open- 

 mouthed. Sterile filament conspicuous, usually about as long us the anther- 

 bearing ones. Seeds wingless. 



26. RUSSELLIA. Rather shrubby spreading plants, or with pendulous angular 



branches; the flowers loosely panicled or racemed. Corolla tubular with 5 

 short spreading lobes, the 2 upper a little more united. Sterile filament 

 small and inconspicuous near the base of the corolla. Seeds wingless. 



C. Neither spur nor sac at base of the corolla, the narrow laterally compress </ or 

 infuli/cd ii/tjH r ///> of trhirlt /s ln-lnut-shapttl or arrheil, entire or minutely 

 matched, and eaetnutg the 4 stamens; no sterile Jilamtnt. Often sJiowy but 

 uncultivable pi ints. 



27. CASTILLKI.Y. Herbs with simple stems, alternate leaves, some of the upper, 



with flowers chiefly sessile in their axils, colored like petals, and more gav 

 than the corollas.' Calvx tubular, flattened laterally, 2-4-cleft. Corolla 

 tubular, with a Ion-* and narro\\ condnplicatc erect upper lip, and a very 

 short :Mohed lower lip. <V!N of the anther unequal. 1'od many-seeded. 



28. PKDICl'LAKIS. Herbs with simple stem-, chiefly pimiatilid leaves and 



s]iked flowers. Corolla tubular, with a strongly arched or flattened helmet- 

 shuped upper lip, and the lower erect at base, ii-c rested above and 3-lobcd. 

 Sc. !> several in each cell. 



29. MELAMI'YRl'M. Low herbs with branching stems, opposite leaves, and 



flowers in their axils, or the upper crowded in :i bractcd spike. Calvx bell- 

 shaped, 4-cleft, the lobes taper-pointed. Corolla tubular, enlarging above, 

 with the lower tip nearly equalling the narrow upper one and its biconvex 

 palate ap;>re<scd to it, 3-!ohed at the summit. Cells of the anther minutely 

 pointed at base. Pod oblique,, with only 2 seeds in each cell. 



1. BRUNPELSIA. (Xamcd for the old herbalist, Otto 7?/v//?7.s.) Con- 

 servatory shrills, from Bra'.il, cult, under the name of FKAXC/SCEA ; with 

 sliowv flowers, blue or violet turning paler. 



B. latifblia, is very smooth, with oval or oblong leaves, and few flowers 

 nt the end of the brandies I. 1 ;' aero-*. 

 B. Hopoana, with lance-oblong leaves 2' long, and flower only 1' wide. 



2. BROWALLIA. (Xamcd for Dr. Browall, of Sweden, first a friend, 

 later a bitter opponent of Linnaius.) 



B. demissa (named also B. KiAr.v when the plant and the man it was named 



for grew exalted), from S. America; cult, in the gardens, l-2 high, bushy- 

 branched, with ovate leaves and handsome bright violet-blue flowers (!' or less 

 across, at length as it were racemed) produced all summer. (T) 



3. SALPIGLOSSIS. (Greek for tnnnfwt-ton^if, from the curved apex of 

 the style with dilated stigma likened to the end of a trumpet. 



1. S. siimata. Cult, from Chili as an ornamental annual or biennial, under 

 various names and varieties according to the color of th" large Powers, dark- 

 purple, or straw-colored and mostly striped : fl. all summer. In appearance 

 resembles a Petunia. 



4. SCHIZANTHUS. (Greek for cut fmccr, the corolla being as if cut 

 into slips.) Cult, for ornament, from Chili : fl. summer. (T) 



S. pinnatus, the common species, of several varieties ; slender, 1- 2 high, 

 pubescent with fine glandular hairs, with leaves once or twice pinnate or parted 

 into narrow divisions, and numerous handsome flowers barely 1' in diameter, 



