392 SCEOPHULAEIACEAE. 



numerous, reticulated. [Named for Adam Afzelius, 1750-1812, botanieal pro- 

 fessor at XJpsala.] About 10 species, of the southern United States and 

 Mexico, the following typical one reaching the Bahamas. 



1. Afzelia cassioides (Walt.) Gmel. Syst. 2: 927. 1791. 



Anonymos cassioides Walt. Fl. Car. 171. 1788. 



Puberulent, much branched, 0.5-1.2 m. high, the very slender branches 

 ascending. Leaves approximate, sessile or nearly so, 1-2.5 cm. long, dissected 

 into filiform segments; flowers in long narrow racemes terminating the 

 branches and usually also in the upper axUs; pedicels filiform, 3-7 mm. long; 

 calyx-tube 1 mm. long, the lobes filiform, 1-2 mm. long; corolla glabrous, about 

 8 mm. broad; capsule 5-6 mm. long, its acute tip flattened. 



Pine-lands of Great Bahama : — southeastern UniteiJ States. Afzelia. 



10. AGAIJNIS Eaf. N. Fl. 2: 61. 1837. 



Erect herbs, mainly with opposite and sessile narrow leaves. Flowers 

 showy, usualy large, purple, pink or white, in loose bracted racemes. Calyx 

 campanulate, o-toothed or 5:lobed. Corolla somewhat irregular, campanulate, 

 or funnelform, the tube broad, the limb 5-lobed, slightly 2-!lipped, the lower 

 lobes exterior in the bud. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments pubes- 

 cent; anthers 2-celled, their sacs obtuse or mucronate at the base; style fili- 

 form. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent, many-seeded. Seeds mostly angled. 

 Type species: Agalinis palustris Eaf. 



Pedicels short, not longer than the calyx. 1. A. Barperi. 



Pedicels as long as the calyx or longer, at least in fruit. 2. A. spiciflora. 



1. Agalinis Harperi Pennell; Small, Fl. Miami 167, 200. 1913. 



Annual, glabrous or nearly so, little-branched, 8 dm. high or less. Leaves 

 narrowly linear, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, spreading; bracts similar to the leaves, the 

 lower often as long as the flowers; racemes 8-20-flowered, the flowers mostly 

 opposite; pedicels shorter than the calyx, 2-3 mm. long; calyx-lobes triangular- 

 lanceolate, about 1 mm. long ; corolla 15-18 mm. long, pubescent ■without, 

 pinkish purple, with 2 yellow lines within, the lobes rounded or truncate, 

 ciliate; stamens woolly; capsule subglobose, 4r-5 mm. long. 



Borders of marshes and in scrub-lands. Great Bahama, Abaco, Andres and Eleu- 

 thera : — Florida. Reported by Mrs. Northrop and also by Dolley as Oerardia pur- 

 purea L. ; recorded as Oerardia domingensis Spreng. in Bull. N. X. Bot. Gard. 4 : 125. 



2. Agalinis spiciflora (Engelm.) Pennell, Proo. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 71: 



277. 1920. 



Gerardia spiciflora-'Engelm. Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 227. 1845. 



Annual, fleshy, glabrous, branched or simplej 2-6 dm. high, erect or 

 usually so Leaves linear, 1-4 cm. long, spreading; bracts similar to the upper 

 leaves, but much smaller, often not longer than the pedicels; racemes distantly 

 4-12-flowered; pedicels 4-12 mm. long, ascending, longer than the calyx, 

 thickened upward; calyx-lobes triangular, about 1 mm. long; coroUa 15-20 

 mm. long, pink, puberulent without, its lobes rounded or emarginate, ciliate; 

 stamens woolly; capsule globose or ovoid-globose, 4.5-6 mm. long. 



Marshy places, Abaco. Great Bahama, Andros. New Providence and Eleuthera : — 

 southern United States : Cuba. Reported by Mrs. Northrop and by Coker as Oerardia 

 maritima Raf., and as Oerardia purpurea L. bv Dolley. Maksh Agalinis; 



