Spigelia. L0GANTACEJ2. 107 



3. MITREOLA. Calyx 5-parted ; the lobes lanceolate. Corolla small, urceolate, bearded 

 in the throat. Stamens 5, short : anthers cordate. Ovary 2-celled and with a broad tip : 

 style short, early dividing into two from the base, united by n common stigma, soon 

 wholly separate and divergent. Capsule divaricately 2-lobed or 2-horned at summit, de- 

 hiscent by the ventral suture of each lobe. Seeds numerous, small, on stipitate placentas. 

 Embryo linear, nearly the length of the fleshy albumen. 



* # Corolla imbricated in the bud, 4-lobed, sometimes 5-lobed: embryo small and straight 

 in fleshy albumen. Pentamerous flowers occasionally occur. 



-l- Calyx deeply 4-5-parted : capsule loculicidal : annual herb. 



4. POLYPREMUM. Corolla campanulas, bearded in the throat, shorter than the subu- 

 late foliaceous sepals. Stamens 4, inserted low on the tube of the corolla, included : 

 anthers ovate. Style short: stigma capitate, entire or obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule glo- 

 bular-ovoid but slightly compressed contrary to the partition and didymous, loculicidally 

 2-valved and at length somewhat septicidal. Seeds numerous on oblong placentae ascend- 

 ing from near the base of the partition, minute, smooth. 



4— +- Calyx 4-toothed or 4-cleft : capsule septicidal, globose or oblong ; valves mostly 2- 

 cleft at apex and separating from the united placentae : shrubs, with leaves often dentate ! 



5. BXJDDLEIA. Calyx campanulate. Corolla rotate-campanulate (or sometimes salver- 

 form) ; the lobes ovate or orbicular. Anthers 4, sessile or almost so in the throat or tube 

 of the corolla, ovate or oblong-cordate. 



6. EMORY A. Calyx oblong, 4-cleft ; the lobes linear-subulate. Corolla salverform, with 

 tube somewhat enlarged above ; the short lobes ovate. Stamens exserted : filaments fili- 

 form and elongated, inserted on the middle of the tube : anthers cordate-oblong. Style 

 very long and filiform. 



1. G-ELSifiMIUM, Juss. " Yellow Jessamine " of S. States. ( Gelsemino, 

 an Italian name of the Jessamine.) — Twining and glabrous shrubby plants, with 

 a mere line marking the place of the minute glandular caducous stipules, con- 

 necting the bases of the opposite or sometimes ternate entire leaves ; the flowers 

 showy, in ours heterogone-dimorphous, fragrant, produced in spring. — Two E. 

 Asian species and the following. 



G. sempervirens, Ait. Stems slender, climbing high : leaves evergreen, thin-coriaceous, 

 shining, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate (1-J- to 2J inches long) : peduncles very short, axillary, 

 scaly-bracteolate, cymosely 1-3-flowered : corolla deep yellow, over an inch long : stigmas 

 of one form and anthers of the other protruding : capsule deeply sulcate down the flat 

 sides, cuspidate-pointed. — Gelseminum seu Jasminum hiteum odoratum, etc., Catesb. Car. 

 i. 53, t. 53. Bignonia sempervirens, L. Spec. ii. 623. Anonymos sempervirens, Walt. Car. 99. 

 Gelsemium nitidum, llichx. Fl. i. 120. G. lucidum, Poir. " Herb. Amat. 3, t. 169." — Woods 

 and low grounds, E. Virginia to Elorida and Texas. (Jlex.) 



2. SPIG-EIjIA, L. Pink-root. (Adrian Spiegel, latinized Spigelius, a 

 Dutch botanist of the 17th century.) — Herbs, rarely suffruticose (all American), 

 usually low ; with membranaceous and more or less pinnately veined entire leaves, 

 and small interpetiolar stipules or a transverse membranous line. Upper portion 

 of the style usually, but not always, furnished with pollen-collecting hairs : the 

 stigma terminal, usually emarginate or 2-lobed : lower part or base of the style 

 persistent. — Our species glabrous, or merely scabrous-puberulent on the veins, 

 &c. : stems 4-angled : flowering in early summer. 



§ 1. Flowers showy, unilateral-spicate on the single or sometimes geminate or 

 umbellate and naked terminal peduncles of a scorpioid inflorescence: bracts 

 minute and subulate or wanting : corolla red or pink, elongated-tubular, not plicate 

 and the edges of the lobes slightly or not at all turned outward in the bud : anthers 

 and especially the summit of the style exserted ; the articulation of the latter low 

 down : root perennial, fibrose. 



