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SCROPHULARIACEJE. 
\_Bonnaya. 
Fertile stamens 2, the upper ones being represented by minute 
staminodes. Ovary clavate ; style filiform ; stigma 2-lamellate. Cap- 
sule cylindrical, much longer than the calyx. — Grlabrous annual herbs, 
with opposite toothed leaves, the flowers in terminal racemes. Distrib. 
Tropics of the Old World. Species 10. 
1. B. reptans, Spreng. ; Be, nth. in DC. Prod. x. 420. A wide- 
trailing glabrous annual. Leaves distant, short-petioled, oblong, ob- 
tuse, finely serrated, membranous, 1-1J in. long, narrowed very 
gradually into the petiole. Flowers 6-10, in a lax peduncled terminal 
raceme ; pedicels spreading, about as long as the calyx, exceeding the 
lanceolate bracts. Calyx cylindrical, f in. long; teeth linear, shorter 
than the tube. Corolla half as long again as the calyx. Capsule 
fusiform, twice as long as the calyx. 
Mauritius, in damp and shaded places at Flacq, Bojer. Tropical Asian, not 
African. 
* Capraria peruviana , Feuill. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 430, a native of 
South America, is naturalized in the Seychelles in the island of Mahe 
(Horne, 543 !) It is a shrubby perennial, with finely pilose terete 
branches, alternate entire lanceolate leaves 2-3 inches long, flowers 
1-4-nate from their axils on pedicels 3-4 times the length of the calyx, 
which is campanulate % in. long slit below the middle into 4-5 lanceo- 
late lobes, corolla^ greenish-white campanulate with 4-5 long teeth 
and a 4-valved membranous capsule twice the length of the calyx. 
* Scoparia dulcis , Linn. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 431, cosmopolitan 
in the tropics, is established in Mauritius in fields at Pamplemousses 
and other places. It is an erect glabrous shrubby annual, with 3-nate 
branchlets, small ternate lanceolate toothed leaves, the upper reduced 
to mere bracts, abundant flowers in the axils of the leaves on short pedi- 
cels, minute calyx divided to the base into 4 lanceolate teeth, a minute 
whitish rotate corolla, and a globose membranous capsule ^ in. long. 
* VERONICA, Linn. 
Calyx divided to the base into 4 lanceolate lobes. Corolla rotate, with 
a short tube and 4 unequal lobes. Stamens 2, inserted in the corolla- 
tube. Ovary obcordate; style short, straight, filiform ; stigma capitate. 
Capsule obcordate, broader than long, laterally compressed. Seeds 
numerous. — Herbs or shrubs of various habit. Distrib. Temperate 
regions, mainly of the northern hemisphere. Species 180. 
Two common annual species of the northern hemisphere occur 
occasionally in cultivated fields in Mauritius, viz. 
* V.arvensis, Linn. ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 483, with ovate crenate 
leaves, lax terminal racemes longer than the stems, lanceolate bracts, 
very short ascending pedicels, •§■ in. calyx, minute blue corolla, deeply 
emarginate capsule as long as the calyx, and minute oblong com- 
pressed seeds. 
