318 FIG WORT FAMILY. 



D. meteloldes, DC. Cult, from Mexico (under the name of D, 

 WnioHTii); like the other, but pale, almost smooth, the flower sweet- 

 scented, and the corolla with more expanded 5-toothed border, 5'-6' wide, 

 white or pale violet. Capsule spiny. 



D. fastuosa, Linn. Downy ; leaves ovate-acuminate, unequal at the 

 base, repand-toothed ; flowers erect, violet outside arid white within, 

 somewhat oblique ; capsule rough. Showy, often double-flowered. 

 E. Indies. 



* * * Flower and smooth 2-celled pod hanging, the former very large, 

 6'-10' long ; calyx splitting down lengthwise after flowering. Tropical 

 American tree-like shrubs, cult, in conservatories; flowers sometimes 

 double. 



D. (or BRUGMA.NSIA) arborea, Linn. Has ovate or lance-oblong, entire 

 or angled pubescent leaves, long teeth to the corolla, and unconnected 

 anthers. 



D. suaveolens, Humb. & Bonpl. Has mostly entire and smooth leaves, 

 short teeth to the corolla and the anthers sticking together. Mexico. 



15. BROWALLIA. (Named for Dr. John Browall, of Sweden, first 

 a friend, later a bitter opponent of Linnaeus.) 



B. demfssa, Linn, (named also B. EIATA when the plant and the man 

 it was named for grew exalted). From S. Amer.; 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) pro- 

 duced all summer. @) 



16. SALPIGLOSSIS. (Greek for trumpet-tongue, from the curved 

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



S. sinuata, Ruiz & Pav. Cult, from Chile as an ornamental annual or 

 biennial, under various names and varieties, according to the color of the 

 large flowers, dark-purple, or straw-colored and mostly striped ; flowers 

 all summer. In appearance resembles a Petunia. 



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

 cut into slips.) Cult, for ornament, from Chile ; flowers summer, (f) 



S. pinnatus, Ruiz & Pav. Slender, l-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. 



LXXXI. SCROPHULARIACEJ], FIGWORT FAMILY. 



Known on the whole by the 2-lipped or at least more or less 

 irregular monopetalous corolla (the lobes imbricated in the 

 bud), 2 or 4 didynarnous stamens, single style, entire or 2- 

 lobed stigma, and 2-celled ovary and pod containing several 

 or many seeds on the placentae in the axis ; these with a small 

 embryo in copious albumen. But some are few-seeded, a few 

 have the corolla almost regular, and one or two have 5 sta- 

 mens, either complete or incomplete. A large family, chiefly 

 herbs, some shrubby, and one species is a small tree. 



