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or exstipulate. Inflorescence racemose or cymose ( Spigelia ) (scor- 
pioid cyme {Strychnos ), sometimes condensed into solitary, axillary 
flowers. Flowers perfect, usually, regular; calyx gamosepalous; 
corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, rotate, campanulate or infundi- 
buliform; stamens inserted on the corolla tube or throat and with 
thread-like filaments; ovary superior, two-celled; style elongate with 
bifid stimga; ovules numerous. Fruit usually a capsule, septicidally 
dehiscent (Gelsemium sempervirens ), or loculicidally dehiscent (. Spige - 
