390 LEJNTIBULARIEa!. 



but sterile branchea shorter, and the siiperior bract of different structure. Spithameous ; 

 spikes 8"'-4"'long; superior bract 1 4"' long: herbaceous back tbickish, as broad as the 

 border ; calyx 2'" long : lobes small. — -Hab. Bahamas !, Hjalmars., Turk Islands. 



3. PLUMBAGO, L. 



Calyx tubular, 5-dentate, glandular with stipitate glands, 5-costate : angles herbaceous. 

 Corolla salver-shaped : limb 5-partite. Style with 5 filiform branches. Pericarp membrana- 

 ceous, torn at the base. — Shrubs or perennial herbs; \ixsei scattered ; flowers 3-6racteale, 

 in elongated spiciform racemes : pedicels very short. 



2. P. scandens, L. Shrubby, trailing, glabrous ; leaves ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate or pointed, petioled ; . calyx-tube glandular on its convex angles to the base, half 

 >*as long as the filiform corolla-tube ; corolla-lobes mucronate. — SI. t. 133. f. 1. Jacq. Amer. 

 Pict. t. 23. Besc. Fl. 3.' t. 172.— CoroUa white, tube 8"'-10"' long.— Hab. Jamaica !, 

 Macf., Bancr., in hedges; S. Kitts !,\Bf«., S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad', Cr.; [Mexico! 

 to Brazil ! and Chili ; G-alapagos !] . 



CI. PETMULACE^. 



Stamens inserted into the sympetalous (rarely polypetalous) corolla, opposite to its lobes 

 (or alternate to the calyx) . Ovary mostly superior, 1-celled ; ovules peltate upon a free cen- 

 tral placenta, mostly hemianatropous ; style simple. Pericarp capsular. Embryo small, in- 

 cluded in fleshy albumen. — Herbs j leaves exstipulate. 



1. CENTUNCULTJS, i. 



Calyx 4-5-partite. Corolla rotate-infundibular, imbrioative, marcescent. Filaments di- 

 lated at the base, glabrous. Capsule globose, circumscissile. — Small, annual, glabrous 

 herbs; leaves minute, subentire, alternate, or lowest opposite; flowers axillary: corolla 



1. C. pentandrus, R. Br. Leaves ovate or ovate-roundish, siAacute ; flowers pedi- 

 J 'cellate; corolla 5-partiie ; filaments glandular at the base. — Wight, le. 1. 1585. — Anagallis 

 pumila, Sv). Micropyxis, Dub. M. tenella, Wight (Centunculus, Sub.). — 2"-S"high; 

 leaves 2'", pedicels usually 3'", calyx 1'" loug ; corolla white, purplish at the base. — Hab. 

 Jamaica (&».), in boggy hills. Clarendon ; [Mexico 1, Venezuela !, Brazil !, Irop. Australia ! ; 

 East Indies !]. 



CII. LENTIBULAEIBiE, 



Character of Primulacets, but corolla 2-lipped, 2 stamens with confluent anther-cells, 

 ovules anatropous, and seeds exalbnminons, the embryo often undivided. — Herbs, aquatic or 

 growing in wet places ; flowers on scapes. 



1. UTRICUIARIA, L. 



Calyx 2-partite : segments entire, or the inferior emarginate. Corolla spurred, usually 

 personate. — Flowers in racemes or single. 



§ 1. Leaves entire ; root-fibres furnished with little, bladders, several of them thickened 

 into tubers. — ^Epiphytical scapes (Orchidioides, A. DC). 



I. XJ. montana, Xacq. Rigid; tubers ovoid-oblong : root-bladders minutely globose, 

 distant, long-stipitate ; scape 1-3-flowered; leaves lateral, geminate (or 3-1), lanceolate- 

 ohlong, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering into a long petiole, bluntish, reticulated ; 

 flowers large, whitish ; calyx-segments scariose, many-nerved, broadly ovate, obtusate„half 

 as long as the corolla; corolla-lips subentire, flat, roundish or broadly obovate, inferior 

 twice as large, nearly as long as the ascending incurved-subulate spur. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. 

 t. 8.— U. alpina, L. U. grandiflpra, Pers. V. unifolia, B. P. — i"-12" high; leaves 3"-14", 

 flowers li"-l" long ; scape-scales minutely lanceolate, distant, bracts geminate (1-3) ; seeds 

 fusiform! embryo undivided, — Hab. Montsorrat, Dominica!, Imr.; S. Vincent!, GuUd.; 



