SCROPHULARIACEAE, Snapdragon Family
Mostly herbs; leaves alternate or opposite, rarely whorled, without stipules; flowers hypogynous, perfect; calyx with 5, or rarely 4. lobes or divisions; corolla zygomorphic or rarely nearly regular, often 2-lipped, sometimes spurred or gibbous. lobes 5 or 4; stamens on corolla-tube, rarely 5, usually 4 or 2; when 4, a fifth sometimes present without an anther or as a vestige ;when 2, 1-3 vestiges sometimes present; hypogynous disk usually present; carpels 2, united; ovary 2-loculed, placentation axile; ovules many. rarely few; style 1; stigma 1 or 2-lobed; fruit ‘a capsule, usually ovoid.
Scrophulariaceae