232 FIG WORT FAMILY. 



24. CHELOXE. Low upright smooth herbs, with flowers sessile in spike< or 

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

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

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

 upper arched, keeled in the middle, notched at the apex; the lower one 

 wholly bearded in the throat ami .'3-lobcd at the end. Filaments and anthers 

 woolly : sterile filament shorter than the others. Seeds winged. 

 EXTSTE.V 



25. PEXTSTKMOX. Herbs (or a lew shrubby at base), with mostly upright 



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

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

 mouthed. Sterile filament conspicuous, usually about a.-s long as 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, (he narrow laterally compressed or 

 infolded upper Up of which is helmet-shaped or rinhed, entire or minutely 

 notched, and enclosing (he 4 stamens; no sterile filament. Often showy but 

 uncultivable plants. 



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



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

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

 tubular, with a long and narrow conduplicate erect upper lip, and a very 

 short 3-lobed lower lip. Cells of the anther unequal. Pod many-seeded. 



28. PEDICULARIS. Herbs with simple stems, chiefly pinnatifid leaves and 



spiked flowers. Corolla tubular, with a strongly arched or flattened helmet- 

 shaped upper lip, and the lower erect at base, 2-crested above and 3-lobed. 

 Seeds several in each cell. 



29. MEL AM PY RUM. Low herbs with branching stems, opp_Qsjie_leaves, and 



flowers iii their axils, or the upper crowded in a brae te4 spike. Calyx bell- 

 shaped, i-cle/t, the lobes taper-pointed. Corolla tubular, enlarging above, 

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

 palate appressed to it, 3-lobed at the summit. Cells of the anther minutely 

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



1. BRUNPELSIA. (Named for the old herbalist, Otto Brunfels.) Con- 

 servatory siirubs, from Brazil, cult, under the name of FRANciscEA ; with 

 showy flowers, blue or violet turning paler. 



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

 at the end of the branches 1^' across. 

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



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

 later a bitter opponent of Linnffius. ) 



B. demissa (named also B. KL\TA 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 (!' cr less 

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



3. SALPIGLOSSIS. (Greek for trumpet-tongue, from the curved apex of 

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



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

 various names and varieties according to the color of the largo flowers, dark- 

 purple, or straw-colored and mostly striped : 11. all summer. In appearance 

 resembles a Petunia. 



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

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



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

 pubescent with line glandular hairs, with leaves once or twice pinnate or pam-d 

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



