318 FIGWORT FAMILY. 



D. meteMdes, DC. Cult, from Mexico (under the name of D. 

 WrIghtii); like the other, but pale, almost smooth, the flower sweet- 

 scented, and the corolla with more expanded 5-toothed border, 5'-6' wide, 

 white or pale violet. Capsule spiny. 



D. fastudsa, Linn. Downy ; leaves ovate-acuminate, unequal at the 

 base, repand-toothed ; flowers erect, violet outside and white within, 

 somewhat oblique ; capsule rough. Showy, often double-flowered. 

 E. Indies. (J) 



* * * Flower and smooth 2-celled pod hanging, the former very large, 

 6'-10' long; calyx splitting down lengthwise after flowering. Tropical 

 American tree-like shrubs, cult, in conservatories; flowers sometimes 

 double. 



D. (or BkugmAnsia) arbdrea, Linn. Has ovate or lance-oblong, entire 

 or angled pubescent leaves, long teeth to the corolla, and unconnected 

 anthers. 



D. suavfolens, Humb. & Bonpl. Has mostly entire and smooth leaves, 

 short teeth to the corolla and the anthers sticking together. Mexico. 



15. BHOWALLIA. (Named for Dr. John Browall, of Sweden, first 

 a friend, later a bitter opponent of Linnseus.) 



B. demissa, Linn, (named also B. eiAta when the plant and the man 

 it was named for grew exalted). From S. Amer.; cult, in the gardens, 

 l°-2° high, bushy-branched, with ovate leaves and handsome bright 

 violet-blue flowers (1' or less across, at length as it were racemed) pro- 

 duced all summer. (J) 



16. SALPIGLOSSIS. (Greek for trumpet-tongue, from the curved 

 apex of the style with dilated stigma likened to the end of a trumpet.) 



S. sinudta, Ruiz & Pav. Cult, from Chile as an ornamental annual or 

 biennial, under various names and varieties, according to the color of the 

 large flowers, dark-purple, or straw-colored and mostly striped ; flowers 

 all summer. In appearance resembles a Petunia. 



17. SCHIZANTHUS. (Greek for cut flower, the corolla being as if 

 cut into slips.) Cult, for ornament, from Chile ; flowers summer, (g 



S. pinnatus, Kuiz & Pav. Slender, l°-2° high ; pubescent with fine 

 glandular hairs, with leaves once or twice pinnate or parted into narrow 

 divisions, and numerous handsome flowers, barely 1' in diameter. 



LXXXI. SCR0PHULARIACE2B, FIGWOKT FAMILY. 



Known on the whole by the 2-lipped or at least more or less 

 irregular monopetalous corolla (the lobes imbricated in the 

 bud), 2 or 4 didynamous stamens, single style, entire Or 2- 

 lobed stigma, and 2-celled ovary and pod containing several 

 or many seeds on the placentae in the axis ; these with a small 

 embryo in copious albumen. But some are few-seeded, a few 

 have the corolla almost regular, and one or two have 5 sta- 

 mens, either complete or incomplete. A large family, chiefly 

 herbs, some shrubby, and one species is a small tree. 



