TAXONOMY 



or exstipulate. Inflorescence racemose or cymose (Spigelia) (scor- 

 pioid cyme (Strychnos), sometimes condensed into solitary, axillary 

 flowers. Flowers perfect, usually regular; calyx gamosepalous; 

 corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, rotate, campanulate or infundi- 



PIG. 224. Gentiana lutea Flowering head and dissected flower. (Sayre.) 



buliform; stamens inserted on the corolla tube or throat and with 

 thread-like filaments; ovary superior, two-celled; style elongate with 

 bifid stimga; ovules numerous. Fruit usually a capsule, septicidally 

 dehiscent (Gelsemium sempervirens) , or loculicidally dehiscent (Spige- 



