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COROLLA monopetalous, hypogynous, 2-labiate, anisostemonous, aestivation imbricate. 

 STAMENS 4, didynamous, inserted on the corolla. OVARY l-celled; OVULE solitary, 

 pendulous, anatropous. FRUIT a caryopsis. EMBRYO albuminous; RADICLE superior. 

 FLOWERS capitate. 



SHRUBS or UNDER^HRUBS, or evergreen HERBS. LEAVES alternate, simple, entire, 

 aggregated at the base of the branches, the upper smallest, scattered, spathulate, 

 contracted into a petiole, exstipulate, marcescent. FLOWERS $ , irregular, capitate 

 on a convex paleaceous receptacle, surrounded by an involucre of many series 

 of bracts. CALYX herbaceous, nionosepalous ; tube tetragonal after flowering ; 

 throat usually closed by hairs ; limb 5-fid, regular or rarely 2-lipped, the upper lip 

 3-fid, the lower 2-fid. COROLLA monopetalous, hypogynous ; tube cylindric ; limb 

 1 -2-labiate, upper lip entire or 2-lobed, or very short or obsolete, lower longer, 

 3-partite or -fid or -toothed, aestivation imbricate. STAMENS 4, inserted at the top 

 of the corolla-tube, alternate with its lobes, the fifth wanting between the lobes of 

 the upper lip ; filaments filiform, exserted, the upper a little the shortest ; anthers 

 reniform, 2-celled in bud, cells then confluent, opening at the top by a single slit. 

 OVARY free, 1-celled, seated on a hypogynous minute disk, which is rarely reduced to 

 an anterior gland, or absent ; style terminal, simple ; stigma undivided or shortly 

 2-lobed ; ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous. CARYOPSIS enveloped by the calyx, 

 mucronate by the persistent style-base. SEED inverted. EMBRYO straight, in the 

 axis of a fleshy albumen ; cotyledons ovoid, obtuse ; radicle next the hilum, superior. 



GENUS. 

 Globularia. 



We have indicated the affinities between Globulariecs and Verbenacecc, Stilbineee, Myoporinece, and 

 Selnginece, affinities which are not disturbed by the 1-celled and 1-ovuled ovary of Globulariece, since the 

 base of the style is geniculate and a little furrowed on the back, which has led A. de Candolle to 

 suspect that the pistil is 2-carpellary, and that the posterior carpel is arrested. Some botanists have 

 noticed a close connection between Globulariece and Dipsacece, the latter only differing in the epigynoua 

 corolla, and the opposite or whorled leaves. Globulariece also present some analogy with Brunoniacece, 

 founded on the capitate inflorescence, hypogynous corolla, 1-celled 1-ovuled ovary, and anatropous ovule ; 

 but in Brunoniacece the corolla is regular and isostemonous, and the aestivation is valvate, the stamens are 

 hypogynous, the anthers 2-celled, the ovule is erect, and the embryo exalbuminous. There are also 

 some points of resemblance between Globulariece and Catycerecs ; the inflorescence is the same, the ovary 

 is 1-celled and 1-ovuled in both, the ovule is pendulous and anatropous, and the embryo albuminous ; but 

 Calycerece differ in their epigyny, the regularity, isostemony and valvate aestivation of the corolla, and 

 in the syngenesious stamens. Globulariece principally inhabit the south-west countries of Europe, and are 

 not met with farther north than 54. 



Some species were formerly used medicinally ; the leaves of Globularia communis are reckoned 

 among detergent and vulnerary medicines. The G. Alypum replaces Senna in the south of Europe, and is 

 a very decided purge. 



