10. Anagosperma, Wettst.

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.

A very remarkable monotypic genus, confined to New Zealand. It is closely allied to Euphrasia, but differs in the extraordinary length of the corolla-tube, in the solitary ovules, and in the broad obcuneate capsule.