Scrophularinee—Salpiglossis. 333 
Orver LXXVIII—SCROPHULARINEA, 
A large order of herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees. Leaves 
opposite, or whorled below, but often alternate in the upper 
part. Calyx usually persistent, inferior, 5-cleft. Corolla 
regular or irregular, 4- or 5-lobed, imbricate or valvate in bud. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, with or without a rudimentary fifth, 
or 2 (rarely 5) perfect ones. Fruit a 2-celled capsule opening 
by valves or pores, rarely 
baceate. Seeds small, 
albuminous, few or many. 
There are about 180 
genera and 1,800 species 
included in this family. 
They occur in all parts 
of the world. The orna- 
mental herbaceous spe- 
cies are very numerous. 
1, SALPIGLOSSIS. 
Viscid herbs with pin- 
natifid leaves and_ large 
showy solitary lateral or 
terminal flowers. This 
genus is exclusively 
South American, and dif- 
fers from all the follow- 
ing in having a plaited 
corolla, and thus con- 
necting this with the 
preceding order. Sta- 
mens 4, didynamous, 1 
with a fifth barren one. | 
Fruit capsular, 2-celled, 
2-valved, many-seeded. 
The name is from caav- Fig. 183, Salpiglossis sinuata. (} nat. size.) 
muyé, a trumpet, and yAdoca, a tongue, the form of the stigma. 
1. S. sinwata, syn. S. straminea, S. varidbilis, ete. (tig. 
183).—This is an herbaceous viscid branching perennial, though 
usually treated as an annual, from 1 to 2 feet high, with nume- 
