. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . llous, soft,rank smelling, very bitter, 2-4 inches long, with a hispidpetiole about half their length, close below the base of whichare two small parallel round glands of a pale green terminal, upright, long. Flowers verticillate (inwhorls), shortly pedicled. Bractes deciduous, opposite,under the whorls, lanceolate, cuspidate, striate, subserru-late, ciliate, very widely spread, reflectent, purpUsh. Calyxcampanulate, compressed, generally ten-streaked, roughlyfurred, bilabiate, with the lips of equal length and upright;
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . llous, soft,rank smelling, very bitter, 2-4 inches long, with a hispidpetiole about half their length, close below the base of whichare two small parallel round glands of a pale green terminal, upright, long. Flowers verticillate (inwhorls), shortly pedicled. Bractes deciduous, opposite,under the whorls, lanceolate, cuspidate, striate, subserru-late, ciliate, very widely spread, reflectent, purpUsh. Calyxcampanulate, compressed, generally ten-streaked, roughlyfurred, bilabiate, with the lips of equal length and upright;upper one roundish, rather pointed, large; lower twopartedwdth semiovate pointed segments. Corolla \illous on theoutside; tube white; faux white and twice longer than thecalyx; Umh deep blue, ringent: casque ovate, oblong, emar-ginate (notched), connivent: Up 3-lobed, outspread, longerthan the casque, middle segment nearly round, emarginate,much the largest, lateral ones obtuse, small, placed nearto the middle one. Stamens and Pistil enclosed in 348 SPERMADICTYON suaveolens. Sweet-scented Spermadictyon. PENTANDRIA ord. Rubiace^. Jussieu gen, 196. SPERMADICTYON. Caps, infera, unilocularis, quinquevalvis. Sem,jfuinque, arillo reticulato. Cor. infundibuliformis. Stigma 5-fidum. RoXmrgh coram, vol, 3. 32. fex anglico vers.). S, suaveoleiis, fruticosum; foliis oppositis, ellipticis: floribus terminalibusumbellato-capitatis. Id. loc. cit, tab. 236 ; (ex angl. vers.).Yrnies. erectus: rami oppositi, brachiati, ascendentes, covUce f ubi lignei)cinered punctis Jiisco-purpurascentibus conspersd. Fol. elUptico-lanceolata,glabra^ Integra^ a tribus ad sex uncias longa: petioli breves. Stipulae connectiles, latcB, ensiformes (subulaice). Flores sessiles, ramulo-rum brevium trichotomorum terminates, corymboso-capitati, numerosi, candidi,odorem spirantes jucundissimum. Bracteae ensiformes (subulatcevillosce^plures Jusciculum quemque v. capitulum inv
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