Alectra.| SCROPHULARINE. 773 
racemes ; —pee usually conspicuous; bracteoles 0. Sepals con- 
nate in 5-partite calyx, lower puapites connate, uppermost 
lobe, if SOA small. Petals 4-5, connate in a rotate or shortly 
salver- “shaped corolla ; lobes rieading, the lateral or one of them 
exserted; anther-cells parallel or somewhat divergent, obtuse, 
their apices confluent. Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary ; 
ovules in each cell many or few, rarely two only; style simple ; 
stigma subcapitate. Fruit a compressed or turgid, 2-grooved 
a ets or partially septifragal or septical in dehis- 
cence. Seeds many or few, ovate or glo obose, plano-concave or 
Si Biboens, ecules or smooth, occasionally winged. 
Erect, succulent, usually glabrous; capsule rather compressed, laterally 
turgid, orbicular or broadly ovate; seeds biconvex; leaves oblong or 
tire :— 
Rather tall, 6-18 in. high; stems rather thick; leaves all sessile or 
the lowest rd petioled, usually cordate at the base...........- Anagallis, 
Dwarf, 2-3 in. high; stems slender; leaves all ae or only the 
upper sessi tie, amplexicaul Anagallis var. punctata, 
Prostrate, not succulent, puberulous; capsule didymous ; lobes globose, 
turgid ; seeds oneal Fe OR leaves petioled, ovate, cordate or 
-orbicular, coarsely crenate-serrat agrestis 
1456. ae a. ei Linn. ; F. B. I. iv. 298. 
| ; ngal. 
| A succulent peste with stems creeping below. 
1456/2. Var. puncTata; F. B. I. iv. 293. 
. Bengal. 
A dwarf perennial. 
1457. Veronica aGrestis Linn.; F. B. I. iv. 294. 
C. Bengal 
An annual weed, occasionally met with in gardens in 
the cold weather. 
Pe ee a ae Le 
664. Alectra Thunb. 
Erect, rigid, usually scabrid herbs, black when dry; leaves 
Opposite, or the upper or all alternate, toothed, sometimes reduced 
to scales. Flowers yellow or with brown streaks, in terminal 
Spikes or racemes, the upper crowded, solitary in the axils of 
small leafy bracts; bracteoles 2. Sepals 5, connate in a campanu- 
