MACLOSKIE: SCROPHULARIACE/E. 719 



few-leaved, apically bifid. Corymb subumbellate, few-flowered. Upper 

 lip of corolla rather large, twice the calyx. Lower lip suborbicular, 

 slightly open. Style nearly 3 times as long as the stamens. 

 (Chili); Patagon? 



2. LINARIA Juss. Toad-flax. 



Herbs, with pinnately-nerved, mostly alternate leaves, and terminal 

 bracted racemes or spikes, and zygomorphic flowers, 2-lipped with a palate, 

 and with a spur (long or reduced or obsolete). Stamens 4, didynamous. 



Species 150, mostly Eurasian. 



L. CANADENSIS (L.) Dumont. 



Stems erect or ascending, branched. Leaves linear, or linear-oblong. 

 Spikes long. Corolla blue to white, long-spurred. 

 (U. S., and Central to S. Amer.) ; Patagon. ? 



3. MONTTEA Gay. (Oxy dados Miers.) 



Glabrous shrubs, sometimes with spinescent branches and reduced 

 leaves. Flowers small, axillary. Corolla-tube cylindrical, limb 2-lipped ; 

 posterior, exterior lip 2-cleft, anterior 3-cleft, the lobes broad, spreading. 

 Stamens didynamous with a small staminode. Capsule hard, 4-valved ; 

 but seeds by abortion only 1-2, large, without endosperm. 



Species 3, Chili. 



M. APHYLLA (Miers) Gay. 



Rather robust. Leafless. Branches irregularly angular, the epidermis 

 with minute foveoles, shining reddish, ending in a spine ; the younger 

 branches opposite, spiniform, bearing 2-3-fascicled flowers having gla- 

 brous calyx, pubescent, pink corolla and drupe. Leaves wanting, except 

 minute, bract-like leaves under the flowers. 



(Argentina) ; N. Patagon. 



4. STEMODIA Linn. 



Woolly or glandular herbs or shrubs, with opposite or 3-4-whorled 

 leaves and bluish flowers either axillary-solitary, or in terminal, bracted 

 spikes. Corolla-tube cylindrical ; upper lip broad, lower lip 3-lobed. Sta- 

 mens didynamous, the anther-lobes stipitate. Seeds many. 



Species 30, in S. Amer., Africa, Asia and Australia. 



