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VINCA herbacea, 



Hungarian Periwinkle. 



FENTANDBIA MONOGYNI^. 



Nat, ord* Apocyke^. Jussien gen^ 143, Div^ /. Germcn duplex* 

 Fructus bifollicularis. Semina iioii papposa. 



VINCA. (Contorta). CaL 5-partitus persistens. Con hjrpocratert* 

 formis tubo lon^o, fauce 5-gona, limbo piano obtusd 5-lobo* Anth* mem* 

 branaceae. Status I; 5/^;^. urceoJatura ec subtds peltato-orbiculatum. FU* 

 iiciifi erecti cunniventes obtoiigi angusti; sem. oblonga, nuda, Suffruticet 

 frarius /terb^ej, quidam non lactescentes^ quidam caulilus diffusUtJoi, cppO' 

 sita ; Jlores axiUares, Juss, I- c. I44-. 



V. krrbacea, caulibus herbaceis prostratis ; folijs oblongo-IanceoIatU glabru, 



floribus pedunculatis, calyce ciliato. IVilld. enmn. 274. 

 Vinca herbacea. Waldsl. et'Kitaib. hung. 1.8./. 9. Persoon syn. 1. 267._ 

 ^nA\x perennis. Cstu]e$ kcrbacei procumbenles, in iolo arenoso prostrati, 

 linea recta ad 1 1-2 pedes protcndendi, nee nisi in grdmiKOsis A recta directione 

 deflectendi atque npice erigendi, i'tdem jioriferi et radicantes {nee ut 

 in Vinca niajore et mlnore Jlorentes erecti, non ^orentes procutn- 

 Itentes), simpficlmmiy rarb rainosi ramis oppositis altera brevtore, nudi, 

 Iteves, nititli. et velut atomis ^uibusdam sub epidermide aspersi, non rarH 

 purpurascentcs, subqaadranguli angulis ^ petiolorum margine atrinque decur- 

 renfibus, laterlbus 2 majoribus convexis, minorihus subcanaiiculatis. FoU 

 siibsessilia, opposite, oblusa, suprh obtcuri viridia, nitida, subtus pallidiora, 

 atrinque nuda, marginibus tamen subrevoiutis ciliata setuUt brevisstmit "g^ 

 uscmIis, injima nonnunquam subrotunda, proximo ovala, oblongo-ovata, tandim 

 lanceo/eta, omnia hueme emorienlia. Flores 4-5 in eodem cauie, ttutentati. 

 pedunculis erectts axillaribus, rarv oppositis, folia aquantibut v. superanttbut, 

 teretibits v. subcompressis, post Jlorescentiam recurvandis, CaL (lubaaoraius/ 

 a-pariitus, erecttts, persistens, lac. ( disiantibus ) acutis, subcdtatit, baxi 

 utrinque glattduia dentatis. Cor. congenerum, violaceo-caruUa (subiesqut^ 

 unciam transversa)^ nonnunquam Candida, tubi parte angusttore sulcu 5 pro* 

 fundioribus inscubita, fauce hirsut/i, piUs albis cfausa. Fil. ubi corolla ad- 

 nascuntur hirsuta, hinc prominentia, glabra, aibida, versus antheras dilatata. 

 Anth. lutea, exthi versiis apicem hirsuta, medio utrinque lamina membranaced 

 nucta. Germ. 2 ovata, interjectA utrinque slandulS mellf/erdovata virtdt- 

 lttte6. Styli albi. Stig. ( dbo-lanatum ) . FollicuH 2 subcylmdria, medio 

 nonnunquam an'rustati. subangulati, versHs apicem tenutores, alter sapS 

 abortiens, Sem? oblonga, hinc convexa, inde foveS longitudmah excavata, 

 Wald. & Kit. 1. c. 



TfiS species is native of Hungary, and was first recorded 

 by MessiS. Waldstein and Kitaibel in their splendid work 

 on the rarer plants of that kingdom. It differs m several 

 points from its weU-known congeners m»jor and mtnor; 

 most decisively however in not having a suifrutescent ever- 

 green stem, but one that dies in the winter. The drawing 



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