14 PLAN TAGINACEAE 
2-valved, the valves elastically dehiscent from the central column. Seeds globose or 
eater borne on curved projections from the placentae ; endosperm present or often 
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A Son of about 200 genera and 2,000 species, natives of temperate and tropical regions of both the eastern 
and western hemispheres. Represented in the Pacific States by the single genus Beloperone. 
1. BELOPERONE Nees in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 76, 102. 1832. 
Shrubs or small trees with mostly opposite leaves. Flowers in the axils of bracts or small 
: owy and forming terminal bracteate racemes. Calyx 5-parted, bracteate. 
Corolla imbricate in bud, tubular, 2-lipped; throat narrow; lower lip areas, 3-lobed, 
per lip d more or less cave. Stamens 2, inserted in the throat, about equaling 
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or shorter than the upper lip; anther-cells 2, disjoined and one inserted a little lower than 
the other on a broad connective. Capsule ovoid on an elongated clavate base; seeds sub- 
globose. [Name Greek, from belos, an arrow or dart, and perone, something pointed. } 
About 100 species, inhabiting tropical and subtropical regions of the western hemisphere; our species is the 
only one within the borders of the United States. Type species, Beloperone plumbaginifolia Nees. 
1. Beloperone califérnica Benth. Chuperosa. Fig. 4968. 
Beloperone eae ae Bot. Sulph. 38. 1844. 
Jacobinia californica Nees in A. DC. Prod. an 729. 1847. 
Sericographis Saiefcratcn A. Gray in Torr. t Mex. Bound. 125. 1859. 
Low, much-branched shrub, the esa soon becoming leafless and somewhat rush-like, — 
gray- green os with a close depressed puberulence. Leaves opposite, suborbicular to broadly oblon 
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4968. Beloperone californica 
Family 142. PLANTAGINACEAE. 
PLANTAIN FAMILY. 
Annual or perennial, acaulescent or short-stemmed, rarely stoloniferous herbs. 
Leaves basal, or in caulescent species opposite or alternate, estipulate, the venation 
seemingly parallel. Flowers hypogynous, small, perfect, polygamous or monoecious, 
bracteolate, in dense, terminal, long-scaped spikes or heads, or rarely solitary. Calyx 
+-parted, persistent, the lobes imbricated pale persistent. Corolla 4-lobed, scarious or 
membranous, usually marcescent. Stamens 4 or sometimes 2, or in one South Ameri- 
can genus only 1, inserted on the tube or throat of the corolla; filaments filiform ; an- 
