586 CLIX. SCROPHULAEINE^. 



Herbs or undeesheues or shrubs. Leaves alternate, opposite or wliorled, 

 simple, exstipulate. Flowers g , more or less irregular ; inflorescence varioiis. 

 Calyx persistent, of 4-6 free or cohering sepals. Corolla hypogynous, mono- 

 petalous, tube sometimes gibbous or spurred at the base ; limb irregular, rarely sub- 

 regular, campanulate, rotate or bilabiate, upper lip bilobed, lower trilobed ; aestiva- 

 tion imbricate. Stamens inserted on the corolla-tube, normally as many as and 

 alternate with its lobes, but often fewer, the posterior being absent or rudi- 

 mentary, the other 4 being didynamous; sometimes the 2 anterior are, like the 

 posterior, sterile or wanting ; anthers 2-celled, often 1-celled by the confluence of 

 the sutures across the top of the connective. Carpels 2, antero-posterior, cohering 

 into a 2- (rarely 1-) celled ovary ; style terminal, rarely bifid at the top ; stigma often 

 bilobed; ovules numerous, generally anatropous, rarely semi-anatropous. Feuit 

 generally a capsule, very rarely a berry. Capsule sometimes looulicidally, septici- 

 dally or septifragally 2-valved ; valves undivided, bifid or bipartite, sometimes opening 

 at the top by 2-3 valvules, or operculate. Seeds horizontal, ascending or pendu- 

 lous ; hilwm basilar, rarely ventral. Embeto straight or a little curved, whitish or 

 violet, in the axis of a fleshy or cartilaginous albumen. 



SuB-ORDEE I. SALPIGLOSSIDE^, Bentham. 



Corolla folded or imbricate in aestivation, the two posterior lobes placed outside 

 the others. Inflorescence definite from the first. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 

 *Antliocerci8. *Browallia. Brunsfelsia. *Salpiglossis. 'Schizanthus. 



Sub-order II. ANTIEEHINIDE^, Bentham. 



Corolla imbricate in sestivation, bilabiate, the posterior or upper lip placed out- 

 side the lower. Inflorescence completely indefinite or mixed. 



[The following tribes are established by Bentham : — 



Tribe I. CALCEOLAEiEiE. — Corolla 2-lobed ; lobes entire, concave. Calyx valvate, 4-fid. 

 Stamens declinate. Leaves opposite or whorled. Inflorescence composite. *Galceolaria. 



Teibe II. Veebasce^. — See order VEEBASCEiE, p. 588. 



Teibe III. HEMiMEEiDEiE. CoroUa rotate, rarely tubular, 2-lipped, gibbous, saccate or 

 spurred. Capsule 2-valved. Leaves (or the lower only) opposite. Inflorescence centripetal, 

 uniform. *Alonsoa, Angelonia, Biascia, Wemimeris, *Nemesia, &c. 



Teibe IV. AuTiEEHiNEiE. — Corolla tubular, often saccate or spurred. Capsule dehiscing 

 by pores. Leaves, lower or all opposite or whorled. Inflorescence centripetal, uniform. *Lvna'na, 

 * Antirrhinum, *Maurandia, *Lophospermimi, &c. 



Teibe V. CnELONEiE. — Corolla tubular, not saccate or spurred. Capsule 2-4-valvea, 

 rarely an indehiscent berry. Inflorescence composite. Calyx imbricate, Phygelius, *Paulownia, 

 * Scrophularia, *Gli6lone, *Penstemon, Eusselia, &o. 



