Browallia.} SCROPHULARINE. 753 
dimidiate, with one perfect and one empty or aborted cell; rudi- 
mentary fifth stamen present or 0. Disk small. Carpels connate 
in a stipitate, 2-celled ovary; ovules many; style filiform ; stigma 
dilated, 2-lobed. Fruit a pean, or subcoriaceous capsule 
enclosed in the calyx; valves 2, each 2-fid. Seeds many, very 
small, pitted-reticulate ; embryo eae or slightly curved. 
1403. Browauira ELaTA Linn 
In gardens in the ene season ; often occurring spon- 
taneously in garden-beds and on rubbish-heaps. 
A small herb ; native of Peru. 
Order XCII, SCROPHULARINES. 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, often semi-parasitic, rarely quite 
parasitic on roots. Leaves all, or the lower only, opposite, rarely 
all alternate or whorled, occasionally all radical, subrosulate ; 
stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, usually irregular ; SW Nacte 
centripetal or composite. Sepals connate in an inferior calyx, 
Sometimes only shortly united, generally persistent; lobes 5, 
rarely 4. Petals connate in a hypogynous, more or less 2-lipped 
or occasionally personate 4-5-lobed corolla. Stamens usually 4, 
didynamous or subequal, with or without a stamonide, 
rarely 5 or only 2; anthers variously shaped ; dehiscence longi- 
tudinal ; cells 2, distinct or apically or throughout confluent ; or 1, 
the other imperfect or abortive; when stamens didynamous the 
anthers often connivent and sometimes connate at their apices in 
anterior and posterior pairs. Disk annular, cupular, or glandular. 
Carpels 2, connate in a 2-celled superior ovary; ovules many, 
rarely few or only 2 in each cell, anatropous or amphitropous ; 
style simple; stigma rss, a capitate or dilated, or 2-lobed or 
2lamellate. Fruit a capsule, rarely a berry; placentas either 
remaining on a hain central axis or attached to the margins 
of the y te ves. Seeds small, various in shape; hilum lateral or 
ventral ; albumen fleshy, rarely 0; embryo straight or curved. 
Leaves all alternate : ; corolla subrotate; tube short; throat narrow; 
lobes 5, rom subequal, the two upper outermost in bud; —, 4, 
didynamo Cels 
Leaves, at per the lower if not all, opposite; corolla-tube elongated, or, 
, short, then (Microcarpea, Glossostigma, Veronica) stamens 2, or if 
