Scoparia L.

Herbs or weak shrubs, much branched, glandular punctate, the branches slender, alternate. Leaves opposite, mostly small and narrow, apically dentate or entire, sometimes dissected, basally cuneate; petioles indistinct. Inflorescence 1-several flowered in the leaf axils, the pedicels filiform. Flowers small, the corolla white, blue or reddish, 4-lobed nearly to the base, 1 (posterior) lobe emarginate, glabrous outside, densely bearded inside with long hairs; stamens 4, alike, the filaments glabrous, inserted in the corolla tube, the anthers ovoid, versatile, ex-serted; ovary ellipsoidal or hemispheric, glabrous, the style glabrous, mostly short, the stigma punctiform, exserted. Capsule globose, dehiscing septicidally and loculicidally from the apex; seeds numerous, minute, reticulate.