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Euphrasia.] long; peduncles slender, exceeding the leaves, sometimes ⅓ in. long. Calyx 4-lobed to about ⅓-way down; lobes flat, erect, acute. Corolla-tube slender, curved, more than twice as long as the calyx; upper lip short, broad, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed. Anthers glabrous or nearly so. Ovary pubescent; ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous. Ripe capsules not seen.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 221; Wettst. Monog. Euphr.'' 253.

A small creeping intricately branched herb. Leaves opposite, entire or 3-lobed. Flowers solitary and axillary, erect, shortly peduncled. Calyx oblong-campanulate, 5-lobed to the middle; lobes equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube excessively long and slender, 1–2 in. long, narrow at the base, gradually expanded above; limb short, 2-lipped; upper lip erect, obcordate, shortly 2-lobed; lower lip rather shorter, spreading or deflexed, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers large, almost as long as the lower lip of the corolla, mucronate at the base. Ovary small, broadly ovoid, 2-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous from the top of the cell. Style slender; stigma circinately incurved. Capsule broadly obcuneate, much broader than long, loculicidally dehiscent, compressed. Seeds one in each cell, large, oblong, pendulous.

1. A. dispermum, ''Wettst. in Deutsch. Bot. Ges.'' xiii (1895) 242.—Stems very slender, weak, procumbent and matted, 2–4 in. long, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Leaves in rather remote pairs, sessile or nearly so, ⅙–¼ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed to the base, entire or deeply 3-lobed, 3-nerved, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Flowers on short curved peduncles, erect. Corolla about ½–¾ in. long when first expanded, but elongating as the flowering advances and often becoming 2 in. long, very many times longer than the small calyx. Capsule $1⁄10$–$1⁄8$ in. long, very much broader than long.—Euphrasia longiflora, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi. (1879) 440, not of Vahl. E. (Anagosperma) disperma, ''Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1283; Kirk, l.c.'' xii. (1880) 396, t. 14.