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APOCYNACEAE— SCROPHULARIACEAE 



Frasera — Frasera 



(Named for the botanist Fraser) 

 Corolla 4-parted, with 4 fringed nectaries F. speciosa 



Apocynaceae — Dogbane Family 



Herbs or shrubs, usually with milky juice, and with opposite simple leaves; sepals 5, united, 

 petals 5, united, stamens 5, ovaries 2, the styles or at least the stigmas united, fruit a follicle; flower 

 apocarpous, sympetalous, hypogynous, regular. 



1. Shrubs; leaves somewhat whorled, leathery Xerium 



2. Herbs, or woody at base ; leaves opposite Vine a 



Nerium — Oleander, Rose Bay 



(Gr. nerion, oleander) 

 Flowers rose to white, in terminal clusters A', oleander 



Vinca — Periwinkle 



(Lat. vincio, to bind, from the cord-like stems) 

 Leaves oblong, veiny, shining; flowers salverform, rose to white 



V . rosea 



Scrophulariales Snapdragon Order 



Scrophulariaceae — Snapdragon Family 



Herbs with mostly simple leaves ; sepals united, the calyx often 2-lipped, petals usually 5, and 

 united into an irregular or 2-lipped corolla, rarely 4 and regular, stamens 4, rarely 2 or 5, ovary 

 2-celled, stigma 1, entire or 2-lobed, fruit a capsule; flower syncarpous, sympetalous, hypogynous, 

 typically irregular. 



1. Stamens, or the anther-bearing ones, only 2 



a. Corolla 2-lipped 



(1) Leaves opposite; both corolla lips sac -like 



(2) Leaves alternate; one lip slightly sac-like 



b. Corolla not 2-lipped, often nearly regular 



2. Anther-bearing stamens 4 



a. Fifth stamen present as a sterile filament 



(1) Corolla strongly 2-lipped 



(a) Corolla wide open; sterile filament conspicuous 



(b) Corolla nearly closed ; sterile filament shorter than others 



(2) Corolla not 2-lipped, somewhat irregular 



b. Fifth stamen entirely lacking 



(1) Base of the corolla with a spur or sack 



(a) Corolla spurred 



(b) Corolla with a sack at base 



(2) Corolla without spur or sack 

 (a) Corolla salverform, not 2-lipped 



I (b) Corolla more or less tubular and 2-lipped 



x. Climbing by coiling leaf stalks 

 y. Not climbing 



(x) Leaves alternate ; flowers terminal 

 (y) Leaves opposite ; flowers axillary 

 m. Calyx 2-lipped ; corolla 4-lobed 

 n. Calyx 5-toothed ; corolla 2-lipped 



3. Stamens with anthers 5, corolla wheel-shaped 



Calceolaria 



Schizanthus 



Veronica 



Pentstemon 



Chelone 



Salpiglossis 



Linaria 

 Antirrhinum 



Browallia 



Maurandia 



Digitalis 



Torenia 



Mimulus 



Verbascum 



Calceolaria — Calceolaria 



(Lat. calceolus, slipper, from the form of the flower) 



1. Leaves simple; flower yellow, with red-orange dots C. pendula 



2. Leaves pinnate ; flower yellow C. pinnata 



Schizanthus — Butterfly Flower 



(Gr. schizos, split, anthos, flower, from the lobed petals) 

 Petals much lobed, the lower sack-like, varicolored S. pinnata 



