248 SCROPHULARIACE^. 



III. (RhinanthidejE.) Leaves various. Inflorescence simply centripetal. 

 Lower lip or lateral lobes of the corolla external in the bud. Stamens very 

 rarely more than 4. 



Tribe VI. DIGIT ALE^. Corolla usually little if at all bilabiate; the lobes all 

 plane, the lateral or one of them external. Anther-oells contiguous at apex and 

 often confluent. Herbs, or some shrubs, none parasitic. 



* Stamens 4 or sometimes 5, nearly equal : corolla short-campanulate or nearly rotate. 



22. SCOPARIA. Sepals 4 or 5, rather broad, imbricated. Corolla 4-cleft, densely hairy in 

 the throat. Stamens 4 : anther-cells distinct. Style slightly clavate ; stigma truncate. 

 Capsule septicidal. Leaves opposite or verticillate. 



23. CAPRARIA. Sepals 5, narrow, hardly imbricated. Corolla 5-cleft. Stamens often 

 5 : anthers sagittate or horseshoe-shaped ; the cells confluent at apex. Style with thick- 

 ened apex : stigma 2-lobed. Capsule 2-sulcate, loculieidal. Leaves alternate. 



* * Stamens 2 (only abnormally 3 or 4), distant, straight, exserted, inserted at or below 

 the sinuses between the two lateral and the posterior lobe of the corolla : style usually 

 filiform, with terminal usually small-capitate stigma : capsule mostly compressed and 

 obtuse or emarginate, few-many-seeded, loculieidal ; the valves tardily if at all separat- 

 ing from fclie placentiferous axis. {Hypogynous disk mostly conspicuous and crateri- 

 form or annular.) 



24. SYNTHYRIS. Corolla from oblong- to short-campanulate, 4-cleft, more or less irreg- 

 ular (upper lobe longer), sometimes irregularly and variably parted, occasionally want- 

 ing. Sepals 4, oblong. Anther-cells parallel or somewhat divergent below, not confluent 

 at apex. Placentae short, chiefly at the centre of the valves. Seeds discoidal, orbicular 

 or oval, with very close and strictly conformed smooth coat. 



25. VERONICA. Corolla from rotate with very short or hardly any tube to salverform ; 

 its lobes 4 (or sometimes 5), one usually smaller. Anther-cells more or less confluent at 

 the apex. Seeds various. 



Tribe VII. GERARDIE^. Corolla little or not at all bilabiate; the lobes all 

 plane and mostly spreading-, the anterior one external in the bud. Stamens 4: 

 anther-cells distinct to the very apex, or sometimes one of them wanting. Capsule 

 loculieidal, many-seeded. Herbs, most of them partially root-parasitic, and their 

 green foliage inclined to blacken in drying: some African and Indian genera are 

 wholly parasitic and destitute of green herbage, in the manner of Orobanchacece. 



* Anthers by abortion 1-celled : corolla salverform ; tube slender : flowers 2-bracteolate. 



26. BUCHNERA. Calyx tubular or oblong, 5-10-nerved, 5-toothed. Corolla with 

 straight or slightly curved tube, and almost equally 5-cleft widely spreading limb. Sta- 

 mens didynamous : anthers approximate in pairs ; the cell vertical. Style with somewhat 

 clavate and entire apex. Valves of the oblong capsule separating from the placentifer- 

 ous axis. Seeds with reticulated close coat. 



* * Anthers 2-celled ; the cells equal and parallel : pedicels ebracteolate. 

 -t— Stamens equal or nearly so, more or less exserted : posterior lobes of the corolla united 

 to near their middle. 



27. SEYMERIA. Corolla short, somewhat campanulate or rotate, pale yellow, calyx 5- 

 cleft or parted. Filaments short, usually woolly at base : anthers obtuse at base, not 

 exceeding the corolla-lobes. Capsule globular or ovate, with more or less pointed and 

 compressed apex. Seeds with a loose reticulated coat. 



28. MACRANTHERA. Corolla (orange-color) salverform, with tube very much longer 

 than the small lobes; its narrow orifice somewhat oblique; posterior and partly united 

 lobes somewhat erect, the others soon reflexed. Calyx 5-parted; the divisions long and 

 narrow. Stamens inserted toward the bottom of the corolla : filaments filiform, becoming 

 conspicuously exserted, sparsely glandular-hairy, as are the linear-oblong anthers when 

 young: cells of the latter acuminate at base. Style long and filiform : stigma simple or 

 '2-cleft. Capsule globose and bisulcate ; the valves at length 2-cleft. Seeds obovate, 

 lamellate-crested on the back. 



^- -I— Stamens conspicuously didynamous, shorter than the corolla. 



29. GERARDIA. Corolla from campanulate to f unnelform ; the throat amphate ; limb 

 5-parted, and with the two posterior lobes often rather smaller or more united. Calyx 

 campanulate, 5-toothed or 5-cleft. Stamens commonly more or less hairy : anthers more 

 or less approximate in pairs. Style filiform : stigma clavale-thickcned oV flattened. Seeds 

 usually angulate and with a ratlier loose coat. 



