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tion ; ovules numerous ; style filiform ; stigma bifid or capitate. Fruit 
a membranous capsule, the valves mostly separating from the septum. 
Seeds many, albuminous. — Herbs or shrubs, with leaves usually opposite, 
exstipulate, the flowers in their axils or terminal racemes. Distrtb. 
Cosmopolitan. Species 1800. 
Lower lip of corolla outermost in*, bud. 
Subaphyllous shrub * 
Small, usually annual, herbs. 
Capsule short, globose or ovoid, 1-2 times length of calyx. 
Calyx divided nearly to the base. 
Stamens 4, all fertile 1. 
Stamens 4, 2 barren 2. 
Calyx not divided half-way down. 
Calyx-ribs winged 3. 
Calyx-ribs not winged 4. 
Capsule cylindrical 5. 
Lower lip of corolla not outermost in bud. 
Shrubby perennials. 
Branches and leaves alternate * 
Branches and leaves ternate * 
Herbaceous. 
Corolla rotate ; stamens 2 * 
Corolla campanulate ; stamens 2 6. 
Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube and bilabiate limb. 
Calyx-strongly 10-ribbed. 
Calyx-teeth as long as the tube 7. 
Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube 8. 
Calyx faintly 5 -ribbed 9. 
Russellia. 
Herpestis. 
Ilysanthes. 
Torenia. 
Vandellia. 
Bonnaya. 
Capraria. 
Scoparia. 
Veronica. 
Bryodes. 
Alectra. 
Striga. 
Radam.®a. 
* Russellia juncea, Zucc. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 332 ; Bot. Reg. t. 
1773, a native of Mexico, commonly cultivated in gardens, is esta- 
blished in several places in the Seychelles in Mahe (Horne, 542 !). It 
is a glabrous shrub, 3-4 feet high, with very numerous slender leafless 
branchlets, sparse flowers 2-3 together on common peduncles, a 
minute campanulate calyx with deltoid teeth, a tubular scarlet corolla 
an inch long with a very short limb and a globose capsule the size of a 
small pea. 
1. HERPESTIS, Gjertn. fil. 
Calyx cut nearly to the base into 5 unequal leafy lobes, of which the 
posticous one is the largest. Corolla campanulate, with 5 obovate 
subequal lobes as long as the tube. Stamens 4, didyuamous, included; 
anthers all fertile. Ovary ovoid ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. 
Capsule ovoid, membranous, the valves entirely separating from the 
central placenta. Seeds minute, numerous. — Small prostrate herbs, 
with minute flowers, usually solitary in the axils of the leaves. Dis- 
trib. Species 40, nearly all American. 
1. H. Monnieria, H.B.K. ; Renth.in DC. Rrod. x. 400. A slender 
trailing glabrous perennial herb, with much -branched stems rooting at 
S the nodes. Leaves sessile, obovate-cuneate, obtuse, rather fleshy, | 
in. long ; pedicels solitary from the axils of the leaves, short. Calyx 
\ in. deep, clasped at the base by a pair of lanceolate bracteoles, the 
