Scropkwlarinea Salpiglossis. 333 



ORDER LXXVIIL SCROPHULAKtNE.EJ. 



A large order of herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees. Leaves 

 opposite, or whorled below, but often alternate in the upper 

 part. Calyx usually persistent, inferior, 5 - cleft. Corolla 

 regular or irregular, 4- or 5-lobed, imbricate or valvate in bud. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, with or without a rudimentary fifth, 

 or 2 (rarely 5) perfect ones. Fruit a 2-celled capsule opening 

 by valves or pores, rarely 

 baccate. Seeds small, 

 albuminous, few or many. 

 There are about 180 

 genera and 1,800 species 

 included in this family. 

 They occur in all parts 

 of the world. The orna- 

 mental herbaceous spe- 

 cies are very numerous. 



1. SALPIGLCSSIS. 



Viscid herbs with pin- 

 natifid leaves and large 

 showy solitary lateral or 

 terminal flowers. This 

 genus is exclusively 

 South American, and dif- 

 fers from all the follow- 

 ing in having a plaited 

 corolla, and thus con- 

 necting this with the 

 preceding order. Sta- 

 mens 4, didynamous, 

 with a fifth barren one. 

 Fruit capsular, 2-celled, 

 2-valved, many -seeded. 



The name is from aaX- Fig> m - Salpiglossls sinuata. (Jnat.size.) 



7rt7f, a trumpet, and yX&ocra, a tongue, the form of the stigma. 



1. 8. sinuata, syn. S. straminea*, 8. varidbilis, etc. (fig. 



183). This is an herbaceous viscid branching perennial, though 



usually treated as an annual, from 1 to 2 feet high, with nume- 



