. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . es separated by bractes from the base to thetop of a short tomentose peduncle. Flowers blue, when un-opened nearly of the diameter of a Coriander seed. Cali/xcorollabearing, of rather a more opaque blue than thepetals, oblately eampanulate, slightly pentagonal, segmentsovately angular^ membranous, convergent. Corolla uj)-rightly spread; petals 5, vaultedly spatulate, situated inthe intervals of the segments of the cah^, radiately distinct,equal; unguis linearly narrow, convolutely channelled, ta-pered downwards; lamina helmetshaped,
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . es separated by bractes from the base to thetop of a short tomentose peduncle. Flowers blue, when un-opened nearly of the diameter of a Coriander seed. Cali/xcorollabearing, of rather a more opaque blue than thepetals, oblately eampanulate, slightly pentagonal, segmentsovately angular^ membranous, convergent. Corolla uj)-rightly spread; petals 5, vaultedly spatulate, situated inthe intervals of the segments of the cah^, radiately distinct,equal; unguis linearly narrow, convolutely channelled, ta-pered downwards; lamina helmetshaped, the sidesdeeper than the upper part, serving as the cradle of an an-ther. Stamens equal to the petals; Jilaments inserted intothe bottom of the calyx, upright; anthers yellow, round-ovate, 4-lobed. Germen bright green, smooth, oblate, tri-angular, surrounded by the thick glandular ring of the diskof the cal\^: sti/le 3-parted, blue, di\isions fiUform, fascicled,divergently recurved at the top, equal to the calyx^ ter-Hiimitino- in simple stigmatose4) 292 DIRCA , OCTANDRIA MOXOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Thymele^. Jussieu gen. 16. Brotv?i prod. 1. 358. DIRCA. Cal. 0. Cor. tubulosa: limbo obsoleto. Stam. tubo l-sperma. Willd. sp. pi. 2. 424-. Frutex altitudine humana. Fades Daphnes Mezerei. Flores subJrondescentia terni e singula gemma^ pedunculis propriis hrevissimis insi-denies, nutantes, Ligni substantia tenacissima vix absque cultro itidem tenacissimus. Lin. amoen. acad. 3. 13. Birca palustris. Amoen. acad. 3. 12. t. l. f. 7. Lin. sp. pi. 1. 512. Gron, virg. ed. 2. 60. Mill. diet. ed. 8. 7i. Duham. arb. I. Hart. Ketv. 2. 27. ed. 2. 2. 411. Michaux bo^. amer. 1. 236. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 268. Schkuhr handb. 1. 337. t. 107. floribus albis, primo vere erumpentibus, foliis oblongis acumi- natis, viminibus et cortice valde teiiacibus, unde nornen anglicum Leatherwood. Clayt. MSS. n. 858. Frutex erectusJastigiato-
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