SOLAXACE.E 301 



or bright green above, paler beneath ; petioles short, channelled 

 above, convex on the back, densely glandular-pubescent, brownish. 



Nos. 1-3. Elliptic, obtuse, tapering most to the base. 



Nos. 4-8. Lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse, tapering more or less to 

 both ends. 



SCROPHULARIXE.E. 



Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 913. 



Fruit and Seed. The ovary is superior and two-celled, 

 sometimes imperfectly, with large placentas adnate to the 

 septa, or stalked and peltate or bipartite. The ovules are 

 usually very numerous in each cell, rarely reduced to two, and 

 cover the placentas in many series. They are anatropous or 

 amphitropous, both types sometimes occurring even in one 

 genus. The fruit is capsular, rarely baccate. During dehis- 

 cence the placentas are left in the centre where they form a 

 column, or they are liberated from the septa, or at other times 

 remain adnate to valves carrying two half-septa each. The 

 seeds are usually very numerous with a basal or ventral 

 hilurn and sessile, or they have a short and slender or some- 

 times a dilated funicle hidden by the incurved margin. The 

 testa is membranous or crustaceous and reticulate, foveolate, 

 strongly ribbed or pitted, rarely smooth ; in some cases it is 

 hyaline and loose, while the endosperm is covered with a 

 thin inner integument. Endosperm is generally copious and 

 fleshy, rarely reduced to a thin layer or almost wanting. 

 The embryo is comparatively large, and varies from half to 

 nearly the whole length of the endosperm ; rarely minute ; 

 it is generally straight but sometimes slightly curved, very 

 rarely curved in the form of a ring. The cotyledons are 

 shorter or longer, but not as a rule very much broader than the 

 radicle which is superior or horizontal and directed towards 

 the hilum. 



Some cases occur in the Order as in Melampyrurn, 

 Tozzia, Leptorhabdos, and a few species of Veronica where 

 the ovary has two ovules in each cell. The fruit is baccate 



