SYNOPTICAL 

 FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Division II. GAMOPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 



CONTINUED AFTER COMPOSITE. 



Oeder LXXIV. GOODEXIACE.E. 



Shrubby or herbaceous plants, chiefly with alternate leaves and no proper 

 stipules, most resembling LobcliacecB, especially in having the corolla cleft down 

 between two of the lobes more deeply than between the rest ; but without 

 milky juice, the anthers separate, and a cup-like indusium around and at first 

 enclosing the stigma. Mainly Australian and Oceanic, one or two species of 

 the following genus reaching or overpassing the northern tropic. 



1. SCuSlVOLA, L. (Diminutive of scceva, a left-handed person; application 

 obscure.) Calyx adnate to the 2-eelled ovary ; the limb 5-cleft or a mere border 

 around the base of the epigynous .5-lobed corolla, the tube of which is cleft down 

 one side to the base ; its lobes valvate-induplicate in the bud. Stamens 5, 

 epigynous. or lightly connected with the base of the corolla, alternate with its 

 lobes, distinct. Ovules solitary or a pair in each cell, erect. Fruit drupe-like, 

 or when dry nut-like. Flowers in axillary cymes, or sometimes solitary. — 

 L. Mant. 145 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 539. 



S. Plumieri, Vahl. Low and shrubby, with fleshy obovate entire leaves, woolly-bearded in 

 the axils, otherwise smooth: limb of the calyx a truncate border: corolla white, an 

 inch Ion? ; the tube as long as the lobes, very woolly inside. — Lobelia, Plum. Ic. t. 165 ; 

 Catesb. Car. i. t. 79. — Seashore, S. Florida. (W. Ind., S. Afr., S. Asia.) 



Order LXXV. LOBELIACEJ^. 



Herbs (out of the tropics), the juice usually milky and acrid, with alternate 

 simple leaves, no stipules, I'acemose inflorescence, and perfect 5-merous flowers ; 

 having the calvx-tube adnate to the ovary, epigynous irregular corolla and sta- 

 mens, the latter as many as the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, and 



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