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DURANTA Plumieri. 
Smooth Duranta. 
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DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. Viricxs, Jussieu gen. 106. Div. II. Flores spicati, in 
spicis alterni. 
VERBENACER. Jussieu іп annal. du mus. 7. 63. Brown 
prod. 510. 
DURANTA. Cal. truncatus, sub5-fidus. Cor. tubo subcurvo, limbo 
5-fido subequali. Stam. non exserta. Stig. 1. Васса 4 nucibus 2-locu- 
laribus 2-spermis, calyce suprà coarctato et persistente omninó tecta, certà 
non infera. Frutices ramis 4-gonis; flores ha spicati axillares aut termi- 
males. Quibusdam spine axilares. Juss. 1. c. 109. 
D. Plumieri, calycibus fructescentibus contortis, Linn. sp. pl. 2. 380. 
Duranta Plumieri. Jacg. amer. 186. t. 176. f. 76. Jacq. coll. suppl. 119. 
іс. rar. 3.1. 508. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 380. Hort. Kew. 2. 363. ed. 2. 4. 59. 
Arbuscula orgyalis ad biorgyalem, татоза ; rami longi, еге rotun= 
daté 4-goni, villosi, cinerei, “ Fol. opposita, subrhombeo-elliptica, acuta, 
integra v. subintegra, тойд suprà medium obtuse et inegualitér serrata, dis- 
tantia, sesgui-biuncialia, obsoleté subvillosa praesertim à parte proná, petiolum 
versús attenuata: petiolus brevis, villosus. Flores paniculato-racemosi з 
тасетий opposito-azillares terminalesque, pluri-multiflori, reclinati; pedicelli 
‚fliformes, strictiusculi, per paria approximati, breviores flore, bracteä villosá 
subulatá: par imum racemuli terminalis sæpè in foliis binis axillare. Cal. 
inferus, inbulosus, persistens, lanuginosus, 5-angulosus, 5-dentatus, dentibus 
acutis, brevibus, erectis, адиа биз, $ parte brevior tubo corolla, facie in- 
terangulari dorsali ceteris planiore sublatioreque. Cor. lilacino-v. subceruleo- 
pallescens, bilabiato-hypocrateriformis, extús lanuginosus: tubus de calyce 
curvatus, diametro angusto, dorso subplanior, intus pilis capitatis viscosus 
orificio transverse sublatiore : limbus semunciam transversus, obliquus, ultra 
medium 5-fidus, lacinie isometre, obtusissime, levits eroso-crenulate, labii 
summi tres concolores patentissima, harum © laterales divaricate elliptica- 
obovate, media sublatior subtruncata ; labii imi due erecto-patentes conver» 
entes fer? duplo angustiores obovato-oblonge, utraque lined saturatà violaced 
пати влади per medium ductä. Stam. inclusa tubo: fil. sub base curvatura 
tubi inserta, brevia, 2 longiora, in laco quinti rudimentum landuloso-capi- 
tatum: anth. conniventes, ochroleuce, complanato-didyma. Germ. glabrum, 
subrotundum, calyce omnino liberum г stylus virens, subbrovior calyce, su- 
perne flexus, per Tentem visus striatus : stig. viride, obliquà capitatum, verru- 
culosum, 
The present is clearly the same species as the Durants 
Plumieri of Jacquin, and consequently that of the Hortus 
Kewensis, where his figure is quoted. We should think it 
also Plunier's plant, but this fact being less evident, we 
have omitted the synonym. The plant with very green 
branches and long lanceolate deeply, closely, and sharply 
