282 SCROPHULAfclACE^E. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



Synopsis. 



I. ANTIRRHINIDE^:. Upper Up of the corolla covering the lower in 



the bud (\vith occasional exceptions in Mimulus, &c.). Pod usually 

 septicidal. 



TRIBE I. VERJ1ASCE.K. Corolla nearly wheel-shaped. Flowers in a simple spike or 



raceme. Leaves all alternate. 

 1. VERBASCUM. Stamens 6, all with anthers, and 3 or all of them with bearded laments. 



TRIBE H. ANTIRRHINE.E. Corolla tubular, with a spur or sac at the base below, 

 the throat usually with a palate. Pod opening by chinks or holes. Flowers in simple 

 racemes or axillary. Lower leaves usually opposite or whorled. 

 8. LINARIA. Corolla spurred at the base ; the palate seldom closing the throat. 



3. ANTIRRHINUM Corolla merely saccate at the base ; the palate closing the thro&e. 



TRIBE m. CIIELOA'E^E. Corolla tubular, or deeply 2-lipped, not spurred nor saccate 

 below. Pod 2-4-valved. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence compound; the flowers in 

 small clusters or cymes in the axils of the leaves or bracts ; the ciiustew spiked or 

 racemed. (Stamens 4, and the rudiment of the fifth.) 



4. SCROPHULARIA. Corolla inflated, globular or oblong, with four erect lobes atd one 



spreading one. Rudiment of the sterile stamen a scale. 



6. COLLINSIA. Corolla 2-cleft, the short tube saccate on the upper side ; tho middle lobe of 

 the lower lip sac-like and enclosing the declined stamens. 



6. CHELONE. Corolla tubular, inflated above. Sterile stamen shorter than the others 



Seeds winged. 



7. PENTSTEMON. Corolla tubular. Sterile stamen about as lo_jg as the rest. Seeds wingless. 



TRIBE IV. GRATIOLiEJE. Corolla tubular, not saccate nor spurred. Pod 2-valved. 

 Inflorescence simple ; the flowers single in the axil of the bracts or Jeaves, the peduncles 

 bractless. Leaves all or the lower opposite. 



# Stamens 4, all anther-bearing and oimilar. 



8. MIMULUS. Calyx prismatic, 6-angled, 5-toothed. Corolla elongated. 

 9 CONOBEA. Calyx 5-parted, the divisions equal. Corolla short. 



10. IIERPESTIS. Calyx 5-parted, unequal, the upper division largest. Corolla shor.. 



* * Anther-bearing stamens 2 : sometimes also a pair of sterile filaments. 



II. GRATIOLA. Calyx 5-parted. Stamens included ; the sterile pair short or none. 



12 ILYSANTHES. Calyx 5-parted. Stamens included ; the sterile filaments protruded. 



13. HEMIANTIIUS. Calyx 4-toothed. Sterile filaments none. Corolla irregular. 



11. RHINANTHIDE^E. Under lip or the lateral lobes of the corolla 



covering the upper in the bud. Pod commonly loculicidal. 



TRIBE V. SIBTHORPIE.K. Corolla wheel-shaped or bell-shaped. Leaves alternate, 

 or (with the axillary flowers) fascicled in clusters 



14. LIMOSELLA. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens 4. Leaves fleshy. 



TRIBE YI. IMGlTALEjE * Corolla tubular or somewhat bell-shaped. Leaves altwr 

 nate. Flowers in a spike or raceme 



15. 8YNTIIYR1S. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla irregular Stamens 2, rarely 4. 



TRIBE VII. VERONICE^E. Corolla wheel-shaped or salver-shaped. Stamens not ap- 

 proaching each other. Leaves mostly opposite. Flowers in racemes. 



16. VERONIC V. Calyx 4- (rarely 3-5-) parted Corolla son ewhat irregular. Stamens 2. 



TRIBE VIII. BUCHNEREJE. Corolla salver-shaped. Stamens 4, approximate in 

 pairs : anthers 1-ceHed Upper leaves alternate. Flowers in a spike. 



